Workday Platform & Governance Owner - Workday SME
About The Position
The Workday Platform & Governance Owner serves as the technical subject matter expert (SME) and governance authority for the Workday ecosystem supporting 10,000+ employees. This role is responsible for tenant management, security administration, production change control, configuration standards, and complex cross-module configuration within Workday. This position operates within IT, operating within a structured HRIS (functional design) and HRIT (technical delivery) model. This role ensures Workday remains secure, architecturally aligned, compliant, and technically optimized. While HRIT Engineers own module delivery, this role serves as the enterprise technical SME across all Workday domains and provides hands-on configuration for complex or cross-functional initiatives.
Requirements
- 7–10 years HRIS experience
- 5+ years advanced hands-on Workday configuration
- Workday Pro Certifications
- Deep expertise across all major Workday modules
- Strong Position Management and Job Management experience
- Experience designing and maintaining security architecture
- Strong understanding of SOD and audit controls
- Experience operating within a multi-tenant governance model
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical authority across: Core HCM, Position Management & Job Management, Benefits, Compensation & Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, Talent Management, Workday Learning, Payroll, Time Tracking & Absence, Security, Integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, Studio fundamentals). Responsibilities include advising HRIT engineers on complex configuration design, new releases, AI agents and new functionality, validating cross-module impacts, supporting troubleshooting of high-severity issues, and mentoring team members on advanced configuration practices.
- Configure complex cross-domain business processes
- Design and implement advanced security groups and domain policies
- Configure complex eligibility rules and condition logic
- Support advanced compensation cycle setup
- Configure complex Position Management structures
- Build enterprise-impact calculated fields
- Support integration troubleshooting
- Perform configuration clean-up and technical debt remediation
- Create and Maintain Tenant Management Plan
- Oversee all Workday tenants (Production, Sandbox, Dev, Preview)
- Coordinate sandbox refresh schedules
- Enforce Dev → Test → Prod migration controls
- Approve production configuration migrations
- Oversee release preview cycles
- Maintain production access governance
- Support emergency change management
- Lead governance processes, including prioritization of enhancements, upgrades and releases.
- Establish and enforce technical and application change management standards, ensuring compliance with documentation and audit requirements
- Maintain enterprise Workday security model
- Monitor and remediate segregation of duties (SOD) conflicts
- Conduct periodic security reviews
- Review elevated access requests
- Partner with IT Security and Audit teams
- Chair Workday Change Advisory Board (CAB) for Intake and Demand
- Review cross-module impact of proposed changes
- Validate testing documentation prior to approval
- Maintain structured change control records
Benefits
- Skill-building
- Leadership development
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
