Workday Platform & Governance Owner, Workday SME
New York City, Connecticut, United States of America
Full Time
4 hours ago
$152,290 - $250,195 USD
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Key skills
AIWorkdayChange Management
About this role
Role Overview
- 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, and mentor team members on advanced configuration practices
- Configure complex cross-domain business processes
- Design and implement advanced security groups and domain policies
- Support advanced compensation cycle setup
- Configure complex Position Management structures
- Build enterprise-impact calculated fields
- Support integration troubleshooting
- Create and Maintain Tenant Management Plan
- Oversee all Workday tenants (Production, Sandbox, Dev, Preview)
- 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
- Chair Workday Change Advisory Board (CAB) for Intake and Demand
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
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
- Philanthropic opportunities