Senior Workday Security Administrator

Responsibilities

• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, implementation, testing, release, and hypercare.
• Provide expertise in security architecture, ensuring appropriate access controls, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency across HCM, Financial, and Payroll modules.
• Maintain a strong business perspective to ensure systems are implemented in ways that support operational goals and user needs.
• Ensure solutions meet high standards of quality, with successful delivery driven by thorough testing and validation practices.
• Collaborate across multiple projects simultaneously, effectively balancing priorities, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineering team members, fostering growth and knowledge sharing.
• Continuously evaluate new Workday features and third-party technologies, proposing enhancements that improve system functionality and performance.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Workday security administration experience.
• Mastery of creating, maintaining, and auditing security groups (user-based, role-based, constrained, unconstrained, intersection, segmented, etc.)
• Proficient in configuring ISUs/ISSGs and their domain and business process security policies, including knowledge of how to secure Workday web services.
• Strong working knowledge of managing authentication policy, authenticated login with SAML SSO, Multi-Factor Authentication, OAuth 2.0, IP restriction, certificates and keys.
• Enterprise experience in ensuring consistent, scalable, and least-privileged access aligned with organizational policies and compliance requirements.
• Practiced in provisioning Implementer tenant access, Service Center Representative configuration, migration access, and proxy access policy.
• Skilled in supporting bi-annual Workday platform releases, including adoption planning, retirement of functionality, and regression testing of existing functionality.
• Versed in promoting deployments through formal change management and release management procedures.
• Experienced in gathering requirements from users and proposing alternative designs.
• Comfortable working with business stakeholders to diagnostically research and solve business process and access issues.
• Ability to develop a detailed implementation plan to monitor and track progress, and capable of adapting to change in project scope and schedule.
• Attentive to creation of documentation to support knowledge transfer and utilization of implemented solutions.
• Adept at supporting internal controls audits through report generation, stakeholder evaluation, and evidence production.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Information Security, or equivalent professional experience.

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Security