Workday Security Administrator
Listed on 2026-06-27
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, IT Consultant, IT Specialist
Workday Security Administrator
A Workday Security Administrator is responsible for managing the HR and Financial applications by maintaining custom security groups, roles, domains, and policies within the Workday system. The key responsibilities include conducting audits to ensure security alignment, overseeing system activity, and collaborating with Business Analysts to implement security requirements for the State agencies while maintaining the segregation of duties.
Primary duties and responsibilities include:
- Implementing security to include user profiles, roles, domain/business process security, integration, and Reports security for all areas of Workday.
- Maintaining a security matrix and ensuring compliance with data privacy standards and State policies.
- Serving as the Lead Security Administrator for the Workday application, responsible for configuration, maintenance, integrations, and optimization.
- Being knowledgeable regarding the Workday roadmap and upcoming product releases, reviewing release notes, assessing new features, and understanding the impacts on business processes and basic changes in functionality as applicable to Workday security.
- Troubleshooting and assisting users with security-related issues, and access problems, and guiding security best practices.
- Implementing and managing role-based access controls to ensure that users have the necessary access to complete the job duties.
- Managing and configuring domain and business process security policies and workflow.
- Documenting security incidents, resolutions, and lessons learned to improve future response strategies.
- Reviewing and updating security roles based on changes in business requirements and regulatory standards updates.
- Assisting in SSO/MFA secure authentication configuration and policies.
- Coordinating Workday quarterly updates, validations, workflows, process management, documentation, audits, and continuous improvements.
- Communicating to senior executives through oral and written reports and presentations.
Skills and competencies include:
- Expertise in managing Business Processes and Domain Security Policies.
- Proficiency in configuring and managing Workday Custom Security Groups (e.g., Role-Based, User-Based).
- Proficiency in Workday User Provisioning and De-Provisioning processes.
- Proficiency in Workday HCM and security modules with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve access and security issues.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Working knowledge of Single-Sign-On/ Multi-Factor Authentication for the Application's secure authentication.
- Knowledge of Tenant and Release management.
- Ability to configure/security/reports migrations from one environment to another using Workday Object Transporter (OX 2.0).
- Knowledge of data privacy standards and compliance requirements for government industry.
Minimum qualifications include:
Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information assurance, or a related field from an accredited college or university AND Six years of information technology experience, Four years of which in Workday security.
Note:
An equivalent combination of education and job-specific experience that provided the knowledge, experience, and competencies required to successfully perform the job at the level listed may be substituted on a year-over-year basis.
Skill matrix:
- Expertise in managing Business Processes and Domain Security Policies.
- 6 Years - Proficiency in configuring and managing Workday Custom Security Groups (e.g., Role-Based, User-Based).
- 6 Years - Proficiency in Workday User Provisioning and De-Provisioning processes.
- 6 Years - Proficiency in Workday HCM and security modules with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve access and security issues.
- 6 Years - Ability to configure/security/reports migrations from one environment to another using Workday Object Transporter (OX 2.0).
- 6 Years
About Us:
Inter Sources Inc. is a Small, Woman, and Minority-Owned Business Enterprise, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 certified company with massive 18+ years of diversified experience in providing IT Consulting Services, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Application Development, Cloud Services, Cybersecurity, Digital Marketing, ERP Management, Custom Software Development, Web Development, UI/ UX Design, System Integration, QA Support etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees, and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, color, national origin, gender sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or marital status.
We also are a Google Cloud and Oracle partner company.
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