Senior Workday Security Administrator

Job Overview

As a Senior Security Administrator you will play a critical role in shaping and evolving our Workday security strategy in support of enterprise financial and human capital management. Working within a fast-moving, iterative delivery environment, this role enables the organization to leverage Workday more effectively – driving operational efficiency, supporting informed strategic decision-making, and protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of corporate data.

Job 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.

Job 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.
• 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.
• Able to develop a detailed implementation plan to monitor and track progress, and capable of adapting to change in project scope and schedule.
• 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.
• Preferred Skills And Abilities:
  • Workday Business Process configuration experience.
  • Workday implementation tools experience (EIB, Customer Central Management, etc.).
  • Workday experience building, modifying, and securing custom reports, dashboards, and calculated fields.
  • Workday Pro Certified.
  • Master’s Degree or equivalent or equivalent professional experience.