Senior Workday Security Engineer

CVS Health • Washington, DC

1d • $83,430 - $222,480

About The Position

CVS Health is seeking an experienced Senior Workday Security Engineer to join its HR Technology Workday Security team. The role designs, supports, governs, and optimizes security across the Workday platform, primarily for HCM, Compensation, Reporting, and Access Management. It partners with HR, Compensation, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, Reporting, and HR Technology teams to protect sensitive workforce data, apply least-privilege access, improve operational controls, and support security modernization.

The position also contributes to digital-solution architecture and development, including designing technical architecture and infrastructure, writing code and software components, integrating systems, testing and debugging solutions, participating in project methodologies, exploring tools and techniques, and maintaining technical documentation and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Workday.
• 3+ years of experience focused on Workday configurable security.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with role-based, user-based, job-based, rule-based, intersection, aggregation, and segment-based security groups.
• 3+ years of experience with domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, and organization constraints.
• 3+ years of experience supporting HCM and Compensation security in a complex enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of experience with Workday report security, including data-source and field-level domain analysis.
• 3+ years of experience with integration security, including Integration System Users (ISUs), Integration System Security Groups (ISSGs), integration domains, and EIB security.
• 2+ years of experience supporting access reviews, audit evidence, segregation-of-duties analysis, and security controls.
• 2+ years of experience using ServiceNow, Jira, or comparable work-management platforms.
• 2+ years demonstrating analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Human Resources Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

• Workday Pro Security certification.
• Experience supporting a large, highly regulated enterprise Workday environment.
• Knowledge of SOX controls, privacy requirements, data classification, and privileged-access governance.
• Experience with Workday Reporting, Security Administration Hub, Prism, integrations, and release-management practices.
• Healthcare industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and maintain Workday security groups, roles, domains, and business process security policies.
• Support security requirements across HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Talent, Recruiting, and Reporting.
• Troubleshoot complex access issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend remediation.
• Manage Workday security access requests and approvals through ServiceNow, with complete documentation and traceability.
• Apply least-privilege and segregation-of-duties principles; support periodic access reviews and remediation.
• Analyze custom-report sharing, data sources, and field-level domains to prevent inappropriate data exposure.
• Support audit, risk, privacy, and compliance activities by producing evidence and maintaining control documentation.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, role matrices, security inventories, and change records.
• Track operational metrics, ticket volumes, SLA performance, backlog trends, and recurring access issues.
• Support Workday release impact assessments, sandbox-first testing, migrations, and controlled production deployment.
• Contribute to security re-architecture, role redesign, security standardization, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Cross-train team members and create reusable documentation to reduce key-person dependency.
• Design technical architecture and infrastructure required for digital solutions.
• Write code, develop software components, and implement complex functionalities according to project requirements.
• Integrate software components or systems to ensure communication and interoperability.
• Write and execute test cases, conduct code reviews, debug, and troubleshoot to ensure solution reliability, stability, and quality.
• Participate in agile or other development methodologies, meetings, and project planning, and help drive project progress.
• Explore tools, frameworks, and techniques to improve digital solutions and promote innovation.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including system designs, architecture diagrams, and code documentation, and share expertise to support knowledge transfer and collaboration.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings options
• Wellness programs
• Other resources, based on eligibility
• Eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive program in addition to base pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior