The consultant will design, configure, and optimize global talent acquisition and onboarding pipelines within the Workday platform. They are responsible for managing end-to-end infrastructure, including career sites, business process rules, and cross-functional integrations.
This is a remote position.
Workday Recruiting & Onboarding Consultant
Job Details
Employment Type: Contract
Work Mode: Remote
Location: Offshore
Total Experience Required: 4 to 8 years
Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated design, configuration, and implementation experience within Workday Recruiting and Onboarding modules
Mandatory Certification: Workday Certified Recruiting or Workday Certified Onboarding
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Workday Recruiting & Onboarding Consultant to design, configure, and optimize our global talent acquisition and new-hire pipelines. The ideal candidate will translate complex sourcing lifecycles, candidate tracking stages, external career site matrices, and international onboarding compliance checklists into highly automated, seamless enterprise experiences.
Key Responsibilities
Configure and manage the end-to-end Workday Recruiting infrastructure, establishing job requisition layouts, candidate pools, dynamic application stages, and custom offer generation logic.
Design and maintain external and internal career sites, setting up site branding configurations, job posting rules, candidate account flows, and parsing engines.
Orchestrate global Onboarding frameworks, constructing pre-hire records, new-hire task dashboards, electronic signature steps, and regulatory document verification flows.
Build complex Business Process (BP) rules for talent acquisition, configuring cross-functional approval loops for compensation packages, background checks, and offer approvals.
Govern security and access protocols, setting up intersection security permissions, candidate privacy controls, and recruiter profile assignments across distinct operating regions.
Support external system connections, collaborating with integration teams to tie Workday with digital job boards, candidate assessment vendors, and external background check providers.
Lead feature validation for semi-annual platform updates, running regression tests in sandboxes, auditing dynamic validation rules, and conducting administrative training sessions.
Requirements
4 to 8 years of core recruitment or HR technology experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining Workday Recruiting or Onboarding solutions.
Strong technical mastery of Workday Business Process Builder, conditional offer rules, pre-hire conversion steps, and multi-realm career site administration.
Deep structural understanding of global talent acquisition cycles, international data protection laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), and automated candidate screening parameters.
Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Recruiting OR Workday Certified Onboarding.
Preferred Qualifications
Workday Certified Core HCM certification.
Prior experience implementing Workday Talent Optimization or managing bulk-hiring pipeline data models for global enterprise workforces.
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