Silver Cloud
Principal Dayforce Consultant
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Principal Dayforce Consultant
Principal Dayforce Consultant
UK | Remote-first (with client travel)
Full-time | Permanent
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Principal Dayforce Consultant to join our growing team at Silver Cloud.
This is a senior, client-facing consulting role within our Dayforce Practice, focused on the design, configuration, and delivery of Dayforce solutions across a range of client implementations. As a Principal Consultant, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to clients, lead delivery within your specialism, and help shape the continued growth of the practice.
We’re open across Dayforce specialisms. Whether your depth sits in Payroll, Workforce Management, Advanced Scheduling, or Talent, we’d love to hear from you. We’re particularly interested in hearing from consultants with strong Talent expertise as we continue to expand that capability within the practice.
This role would suit someone with strong hands-on Dayforce experience who enjoys variety, technical ownership, and working closely with clients to deliver high-quality solutions in a growing consultancy environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, configuration, and delivery of Dayforce solutions across client implementations
- Act as the subject matter expert in your module area, guiding clients through best-practice configuration and solution design
- Own delivery across the full implementation lifecycle, including discovery, configuration, testing, go-live, and hypercare
- Troubleshoot complex issues and act as the technical authority within your specialism
- Run client workshops and requirement-gathering sessions, translating business needs into scalable Dayforce solutions
- Support parallel testing, UAT, and go-live readiness, ensuring accuracy and quality before handover
- Advise clients on cross-module impacts and how Dayforce solutions work together effectively
- Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for clients, building strong relationships throughout delivery
- Mentor and support more junior consultants as the practice grows
- Contribute to the growth of the practice through presales support, solution scoping, and knowledge sharing
- Help shape internal best practice, delivery standards, and reusable approaches as the team continues to scale
- Keep pace with Dayforce product developments and bring relevant improvements into client work
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Requirements
- Strong hands-on Dayforce configuration experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Payroll
- Workforce Management
- Advanced Scheduling
- Talent
- Experience delivering Dayforce implementations across the full project lifecycle, not just BAU administration or support
- Dayforce certification in your module area is highly desirable, or strong equivalent hands-on delivery experience
- Ability to translate client requirements into robust, well-structured Dayforce configuration
- Strong problem-solving capability and ownership mindset through to resolution
- Good understanding of how Dayforce modules interact and the downstream impact of configuration decisions
- Experience supporting testing, go-live, and post-go-live phases
- Confidence managing multiple clients or workstreams concurrently
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical detail clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- A collaborative, low-ego team approach and willingness to share knowledge with others
- Curiosity and motivation to keep your Dayforce expertise current
- Appetite to help build and shape a growing practice rather than work within a fixed corporate structure
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Particularly relevant backgrounds might include:
- Principal or Senior Dayforce consultancy roles
- Vendor-side professional services or implementation roles
- Senior in-house Dayforce specialists with strong implementation ownership
- Technical consultants with deep module expertise looking to stay hands-on in a growing consultancy
- Dayforce consultants with strong Talent depth, particularly across recruiting, onboarding, performance, succession, or learning
About Silver Cloud
Silver Cloud is a boutique, fast-growing digital transformation consultancy specialising in HR, payroll, and people technology. Since 2009, we’ve partnered with organisations to deliver unbiased advice, expert implementations, and managed services that genuinely improve the employee experience.
We’re proud of our culture. Everyone at Silver Cloud plays a meaningful role in shaping what we do and how we do it.
Our Values
- Making a difference – always adding value to each other and our clients
- Agile – adapting and supporting change internally and externally
- Passionate – bringing positive energy to everything we do
- Progressive – constantly learning and growing to stay ahead
- Supportive – a kind and considerate team who look for opportunities to help
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