Workday Delivery Lead (Engagement Manager / Project Manager)

About the Role

Groundswell is seeking a highly skilled and customer-focused Workday Delivery Lead / Project Manager to lead the successful execution of the Workday implementation for a complex Intelligence Community modernization program. Reporting to the Program Manager, this individual will be accountable for the day-to-day execution of the Workday deployment and for ensuring delivery aligns with the Workday Implementation Methodology, approved solution architecture, customer requirements, and program milestones.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of the Workday implementation across applicable functional and technical workstreams, ensuring adherence to the Workday Implementation Methodology including required phases, activities, checkpoints, deliverables, and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate Workday activities across requirements, design, configuration, integrations, testing, deployment, and post-production transition.
• Establish clear implementation priorities and ensure Workday teams remain aligned with approved scope and program milestones.
• Drive implementation planning, prioritization, backlog refinement, and delivery activities in collaboration with the Business Analyst and Solution Architect.
• Ensure Workday implementation deliverables meet established quality standards and customer requirements.
• Develop and maintain detailed Workday implementation plans and milestones aligned with the program-level Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Monitor Workday delivery progress and identify implementation-level risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies; develop mitigation plans and escalate program-level impacts to the Program Manager.
• Provide the Program Manager with accurate and timely status on Workday implementation health, milestones, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and required decisions.
• Coordinate with the Program Manager to ensure changes or risks within the Workday implementation are reflected in overall program planning and governance.
• Support Workday deployment readiness and go-live planning across functional and technical workstreams.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing leader for Workday implementation activities and workstream-level delivery discussions.
• Lead Workday implementation meetings, design and milestone reviews, status discussions, readiness reviews, and issue-resolution sessions.
• Translate customer business objectives and requirements into actionable Workday delivery plans.
• Partner with customer functional and technical stakeholders to resolve Workday implementation issues and drive timely decisions.
• Support the Program Manager in program-level customer reviews and executive briefings by providing Workday implementation status, risks, accomplishments, and upcoming milestones.
• Maintain a strong understanding of Workday architecture, capabilities, implementation practices, and product limitations.
• Partner with the Solution Architect to ensure Workday solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with approved architecture.
• Review implementation approaches with Workday functional and technical leads to ensure alignment with Workday best practices.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-functional Workday design and implementation issues.
• Ensure configurations, integrations, and implementation decisions remain aligned with approved requirements and strategic solution direction.
• Lead and mentor the cross-functional team responsible for Workday implementation activities.
• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of Groundswell and subcontractor personnel assigned to Workday delivery workstreams.
• Hold Workday team members accountable for implementation deliverables, quality, schedules, and methodology requirements.
• Manage Workday delivery capacity, resource needs, and workload across implementation workstreams.
• Identify Workday resource or subcontractor performance concerns and coordinate with the Program Manager on program-level or contractual actions as necessary.
• Foster accountability, collaboration, quality, and customer focus across the Workday delivery organization.
• Track Workday implementation metrics, milestones, deliverables, and readiness indicators.
• Ensure Workday implementation documentation meets established standards and methodology requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement across Workday delivery processes and practices.
• Capture implementation lessons learned, best practices, and reusable delivery frameworks.

Work Location & Travel

• Must be local to the Washington, DC metropolitan area (or willing to relocate) and willing to work onsite within customer SCIF environments 3-4 days per week.
• Approximately 5% travel within the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region is required.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required per contract requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a government Top Secret security clearance with SCI favorability and Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph, as required by contract.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise software delivery, technical project management, or Workday implementation leadership.
• Experience leading at least three (3) Workday deployments from planning through go-live.
• Workday HCM Certification required.
• Workday Engagement Manager/Project Manager (EM/PM) Certification required.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification, such as DAWIA Level Three in Program Management, required.
• Deep understanding of the Workday Implementation Methodology and demonstrated experience applying it throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Experience leading cross-functional Workday functional and technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating Workday requirements, design, configuration, integrations, testing, deployment, and go-live readiness activities.
• Strong customer-facing leadership experience with enterprise and/or Federal clients.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, communication, presentation, organization, and time-management skills.
• Experience with public sector software implementations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working closely with Workday product, engineering, or OEM teams.
• Experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Authority to Operate (ATO) activities.
• Experience with Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) software implementations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Flexible Spending Account
• 4% 401K Match (immediate vesting)
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition reimbursement, certification programs, and professional development
• Flexible work schedule
• On-site gym and childcare option

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is: $100,901.00 - $199,815.00