Workday People Experience (PEX) Principal Consultant

The Workday People Experience (PEX) Principal Consultant is a senior functional consultant responsible for leading the design, configuration, and delivery of Workday People Experience solutions. Acting as a trusted advisor, this individual helps organisations create personalised, engaging, and intuitive employee experiences across the workforce lifecycle.

The Principal Consultant combines deep PEX expertise with delivery leadership, pre-sales support, and mentoring responsibilities. They work closely with clients to design experiences that drive user adoption, employee engagement, productivity, and self-service through capabilities such as Workday Today, Journeys, Help, and other employee experience functionality.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a Workday People Experience (PEX) subject matter expert, providing guidance on employee experience strategy and Workday best practices.

- Lead client workshops and design sessions to define personalised employee experiences aligned to business objectives.

- Design and configure Workday PEX solutions, including Workday Today, Journeys, Help, and related employee experience capabilities.

- Advise clients on improving employee engagement, user adoption, productivity, and self-service experiences.

- Lead PEX workstreams on medium to large Workday implementations, managing solution decisions, risks, and dependencies.

- Partner with HCM, Talent, Learning, Recruiting, Change Management, Reporting, Security, and Integrations teams to deliver cohesive employee experiences.

- Support testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live transition activities.

- Provide guidance on persona-based experiences, employee journeys, communications, and critical moments that span the employee lifecycle.

- Mentor consultants and analysts, providing coaching, quality reviews, and functional leadership.

- Support business development activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations.

- Contribute to practice development through internal training, asset creation, methodology enhancement, and knowledge sharing.

- Maintain expertise in Workday PEX functionality, employee experience trends, AI-driven experiences, and new product innovations.

Skills & Requirements

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

- Active Workday People Experience (PEX) Certification preferred.

- 5+ years of Workday implementation experience.

- Experience leading Workday PEX, HCM, Talent, Learning, or Employee Experience workstreams on end-to-end implementations.

- Strong understanding of employee experience, workforce engagement, self-service, onboarding, career development, and talent processes.

- Experience with Workday Today, Journeys, Help, and related employee experience capabilities.

- Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment.

- Experience supporting pre-sales activities including estimations, proposals, and solution presentations.

- Strong consulting, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.

- Ability to mentor team members and provide functional leadership across projects.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.

- Eligible for SC Clearance – you must have been a UK resident for the last five years and be legally entitled to work in the UK.

- Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site as needed.

Why choose Cognizant :

- Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas

- Opportunity to do great work

- Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit

- Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement

- Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific

- An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

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Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team.