This is a remote position.

Workday Security Architect / Administrator

Job Details

- Employment Type: Contract

- Work Mode: Remote

- Location: Offshore

- Total Experience Required: 5 to 8 years

- Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated experience designing, configuring, and auditing Workday data and application security structures

- Mandatory Certification: Workday Certified Core HCM along with demonstrable advanced security administration training records

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Workday Security Architect / Administrator to design, secure, and govern our global enterprise platform access models. The ideal candidate will orchestrate complex data access boundaries, map intersection security layers, configure strict data-masking policies, and establish rigorous audit compliance metrics to safeguard sensitive employee and financial records across multiple operational regions.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain the global Workday security architecture, configuring Domain Security Policies (DSPs) and Business Process Security Policies (BPSPs) to manage field-level and action-level access.

- Configure diverse security group models, establishing Role-Based, User-Based, Job-Based, Intersection, and Segment-Based security permissions tailored to corporate organizational lines.

- Orchestrate cross-functional data segregation bounds, isolating highly confidential executive compensation tables, employee health insurance structures, and sensitive regional ledgers.

- Enforce data masking and data privacy policies, scrambling personally identifiable information (PII)



within developer sandboxes and defining strict visibility rules across production environments.

- Execute mass security profile overrides via Enterprise Interface Builders (EIBs), auditing user permission provisioning pipelines, and leading security group re-alignments during corporate structural expansions.

- Lead internal platform security audits and compliance tracking, utilizing the Security Exception Audit, Change Log reports, and tracking matrixes to maintain alignment with internal controls, SOC, and GDPR mandates.

- Govern administrative access updates during biannual Workday platform releases, running regression test checks in sandboxes to analyze the security impacts of newly activated platform features.

Requirements

- 5 to 8 years of core enterprise data security or system access governance experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and maintaining multi-tenant security layers explicitly on the Workday cloud platform.

- Robust technical mastery of Workday Functional Areas, configurable security frameworks, conditional logic rules, and complex user authorization parameters.

- Deep structural understanding of segregation of duties (SoD) frameworks, regional data residency compliance boundaries, identity federation concepts (SAML/SSO), and access logging.

- Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Core Human Capital Management.

Preferred Qualifications

- Workday Certified Advanced Reporting or Workday Certified Financials Core certification.

- Prior consulting experience managing global security redesign tracks for multi-entity enterprise operations undergoing active cloud migrations or business unit uncouplings.

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