Senior Configurator II

Floor & Decor • Atlanta, GA

17h

About The Position

The Senior Configurator II, Workday leads advanced Workday security configuration, solution design, governance, system optimization, and production support across the Workday ecosystem. This role serves as a senior functional and technical security resource, partnering with HR, IT, Payroll, Talent, Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Internal Audit, Compliance, and business stakeholders to design and maintain scalable, sustainable, and compliant security solutions.
This position translates business and access requirements into effective Workday security configuration, evaluates upstream and downstream impacts, resolves complex security and configuration issues, and ensures solutions align with least-privilege principles, segregation of duties, enterprise governance, regulatory requirements, and the broader HR technology roadmap.
The role operates with a high degree of ownership across the Workday security lifecycle while contributing to continuous improvement and other Workday or HR technology projects as business needs and skill set allow.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Workday experience, including 3+ years of hands-on Workday security configuration or advanced Workday configuration experience.
• Proven ability to independently manage complex Workday security configuration through design, build, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Experience assessing and implementing least-privilege access, segregation-of-duties considerations, role-based access controls, and sustainable remediation solutions.
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting complex access issues, performing root cause analysis, and evaluating downstream impacts across modules, integrations, reporting, payroll, compliance, and business processes.
• Strong understanding of Workday business processes and how security interacts with organizations, staffing models, reporting, integrations, and functional configuration.
• Experience supporting enterprise security audits, access reviews, controls, documentation, and governance processes.
• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, stakeholder partnership, prioritization, and ability to translate complex security concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Workday Pro certification or Workday training in Workday Security, HCM, Reporting, or related functional areas.
• Advanced experience designing, restructuring, or optimizing Workday security models within a large enterprise environment.
• Experience supporting Workday security remediation, redesign, or governance initiatives involving complex organizational structures, high transaction volume, and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience conducting role rationalization, access recertification, segregation-of-duties reviews, least-privilege assessments, or identity lifecycle governance.
• Cross-functional Workday experience across multiple modules or business areas, including reporting, integrations, APIs, calculated fields, release governance, or testing frameworks related to security and data access.
• Experience partnering with Internal Audit, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, or Identity and Access Management teams.
• Experience mentoring junior configurators, analysts, security administrators, or support team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday security configuration, administration, and solution design across Core HCM and related functional areas, including Talent, Performance, Compensation, Recruiting, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, Payroll, Reporting, and integrations.
• Configure and maintain Workday security groups, domain and business process security policies, role assignments, and access permissions to ensure appropriate, consistent, and sustainable system access.
• Partner with HR, IT, Internal Audit, Compliance, and business stakeholders to gather access requirements, evaluate business needs, and translate them into scalable security solutions aligned to least-privilege, need-to-know, and segregation-of-duties principles.
• Perform security impact assessments for configuration changes, business process updates, reorganizations, new functionality, integrations, reporting changes, releases, and enterprise initiatives to ensure security requirements are incorporated into solution design and release readiness.
• Review, troubleshoot, and resolve complex Workday security issues, including inappropriate or missing access, inherited permissions, role assignments, business process access, domain access, security conflicts, incidents, and configuration issues; perform root cause analysis and recommend sustainable corrective and preventative solutions.
• Support recurring Workday access reviews and security audits, identifying excessive, conflicting, outdated, or inconsistent access and partnering with stakeholders on remediation.
• Develop and maintain Workday security governance standards and documentation, including design principles, naming conventions, role definitions, approval requirements, testing expectations, change controls, support procedures, permissions, design decisions, risks, dependencies, and controls.
• Support joiner, mover, and leaver security processes and identify opportunities to automate, strengthen, and standardize access provisioning and deprovisioning.
• Identify opportunities to reduce security complexity, eliminate redundant or overly broad access, standardize user experiences, improve long-term supportability, and support continuous improvement across the Workday ecosystem.
• Assist with other Workday, HR technology, or cross-functional projects as business needs arise and skill set allows.

Benefits

• Bonus opportunities & career advancement opportunities at every level
• 401k with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Referral Bonus Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and other Insurance Plans (subject to eligibility criteria)
• Paid vacation and sick time for eligible associates
• Paid holidays plus a personal holiday
• Paid Volunteer Time Off that starts on Day 1

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree