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HCM Migration Lead

Contract Type

Permanent

Location

New South Wales, Sydney

Industry

IT

Specialisation

Architecture

Salary

AU$180000 - AU$200000 per annum + super

Date published

24-07-2026

Job Reference

BBBH21777

Description

  • ASX 50 Health care provider - Enterprise HCM Transformation
  • Lead End-to-End data Migration planning and delivery for Workday
  • Salary range: $180,000 - $200,000 base + super. Hybrid Sydney CBD/ Macquarie Park

Role

As the HCM Migration Lead, you will own the end-to-end Workday HCM data migration strategy, governance, planning and delivery across a major enterprise HR transformation. You'll establish migration standards, manage data quality, coordinate business validation, oversee testing and cutover activities, and lead a team responsible for delivering repeatable migration cycles across multiple environments. This is a critical leadership role within the Corporate Technology division, partnering closely with business stakeholders, functional consultants, technical teams and external delivery partners to ensure successful migration outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end Workday HCM data migration workstream, including strategy, governance, planning, delivery and cutover readiness.
  • Define migration standards, templates, schedules, controls and governance processes to support repeatable delivery.
  • Lead source-to-target data mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation and sign-off activities.
  • Plan and execute mock migrations, trial loads, dress rehearsals and production cutover activities.
  • Drive data quality initiatives through profiling, cleansing, validation and reconciliation.
  • Manage migration risks, dependencies, defects and readiness reporting throughout the program.
  • Lead and mentor Data Migration Analysts while coordinating business SMEs, functional consultants, technical teams and external vendors.
  • Provide regular reporting to program leadership on migration progress, risks, issues and overall readiness.
  • Ensure migration processes comply with governance, security and audit requirements.
  • Support successful testing, deployment and go-live across multiple migration cycles.

To be successful you will have

  • 5+ years' experience leading end-to-end data migration workstreams on large ERP and/or HCM transformation programs.
  • Experience delivering migrations across enterprise HCM platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM Cloud, Ceridian Dayforce, UKG, PeopleSoft, TechnologyOne HR, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise HCM data migration including extraction, cleansing, mapping, transformation, validation and reconciliation.
  • Proven experience managing repeatable migration cycles across Development, Test, UAT and Production environments.
  • Experience planning and leading cutover activities, including mock migrations, deployment runbooks, reconciliation and go-live readiness.
  • Strong capability managing data quality, risks, dependencies and defect resolution throughout migration programs.
  • Experience leading small teams while working across business stakeholders, functional consultants, technical teams and third-party vendors.
  • Strong reporting, governance and stakeholder management experience across enterprise transformation programs.
  • Experience with cloud-based ETL, migration and data integration tools.
  • Experience delivering Workday HCM migrations or Workday implementation projects will be highly regarded.

Organisation

You will be working for an internationally renowned ASX 50 healthcare provider with specialist operations in laboratory medicine, pathology, radiology, and clinical services. With operations across Australia, North America and Europe, they are embarking on a significant global technology transformation focused on modernising enterprise platforms and HR systems. Headquartered in Sydney, this organisation offers a hybrid working environment across its Sydney CBD and Macquarie Park offices.

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