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 over 10,000 employees. This role is responsible for tenant management, security administration, production change control, configuration standards, and complex cross-module configuration within Workday. Operating within IT, specifically a structured HRIS (functional design) and HRIT (technical delivery) model, this position ensures Workday remains secure, architecturally aligned, compliant, and technically optimized. While HRIT Engineers handle module delivery, this role acts 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
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)
- Advise HRIT engineers on complex configuration design, new releases, AI agents and new functionality
- Validate cross-module impacts
- Support troubleshooting of high-severity issues
- Mentor 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
- Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
- Skill-building opportunities
- Leadership development opportunities
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Opportunities to build communities and grow your career
- Surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards
- 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
