Workday Platform System Administrator

Role Overview

• Serves as the primary technical administrator for the Workday platform, acting as the central IT point of accountability for platform stability, system health, and technical configuration.
• Partners closely with Workday Developers, Business Analysts, and Cyber Security to ensure aligned delivery, secure operations, and adherence to enterprise standards.
• Maintains configuration standards and consistent naming conventions across the system to ensure clarity, scalability, and long-term maintainability of the Workday tenant as functionality expands across modules and business units.
• Manages Workday tenant environments, including production, sandbox, and implementation tenants, ensuring appropriate separation of duties, controlled access, and readiness for testing, releases, and large-scale initiatives.
• Evaluates and implements configuration changes with a cross module and enterprise mindset, ensuring changes align with Workday best practices, minimize downstream impacts, and support consistent user experiences across functional areas.
• Documents system configurations, business processes, and tenant procedures to support operational continuity, knowledge transfer, audit requirements, and effective onboarding of new administrators and partners.
• Ensures SSO consistency across the platform.
• Ensures segregation of duties configurations meet financial and regulatory requirements, proactively identifying and mitigating potential conflicts in collaboration with Risk, Compliance, and Cyber Security teams.
• Supports periodic user access reviews and audit inquiries, providing timely evidence, documentation, and remediation plans as needed to satisfy internal and external audit requirements.
• Collaborates with Risk, Compliance, and Cyber Security stakeholders to maintain strong system controls, monitor control effectiveness, and ensure Workday configurations align with evolving regulatory expectations.
• Maintains comprehensive documentation to support regulatory examinations and audits, including system architecture, security design, configuration decisions, and change history.
• Manages the review, testing, and documentation of Workday releases and updates, assessing impacts on existing configurations, coordinating testing activities, and ensuring readiness prior to deployment.
• Coordinates change management activities for platform enhancements and configuration updates, including release planning, stakeholder communication, risk evaluation, and post‑implementation validation.
• Oversees integrations between Workday and internal or external systems, ensuring integrations are reliable, secure, properly monitored, and aligned with enterprise integration architecture standards.
• Supports data integration processes using Workday tools such as EIBs, APIs, and middleware platforms by troubleshooting issues, monitoring data flows, and ensuring data accuracy and timeliness.
• Serves as a technical advisor to the Workday Product Owner and functional administrators, providing guidance on platform capabilities, design options, limitations, and long-term implications of configuration decisions.
• Translates business requirements into scalable, compliant Workday configurations, balancing operational efficiency with platform operations, security, and regulatory expectations—particularly for new modules or expanded use cases.
• Supports enterprise reporting and analytics needs, partnering with stakeholders to ensure data integrity, optimal data sources, and accurate reporting across Workday domains.
• Collaborates with cross functional stakeholders to enable data driven decision making, helping define reporting standards, validate metrics, and promote consistent and trusted use of Workday data.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent work experience required.
• 5+ years of progressive experience administering, supporting, or architecting the Workday platform in an enterprise IT environment required.
• Workday Pro Platform Administrator Certification required.
• Hands-on experience with at least one full Workday implementation or major deployment, including tenant setup, security model design, integrations, and post go live stabilization required.
• Demonstrated experience serving as the platform-level administrator for Workday, with responsibility beyond a single functional area (e.g., HCM, Financials, Spend, Learning, Analytics) required.
• Proven experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms in a regulated environment, including audit support, access reviews, and compliance documentation required.
• Strong experience coordinating across IT, Security, Risk, Compliance, and functional business teams to enforce platform standards required.
• Experience managing or supporting Workday integrations using EIBs, APIs, middleware, or integration frameworks, including troubleshooting cross-system issues required.
• Experience evaluating Workday releases, assessing enterprise impact, coordinating testing, and supporting controlled change management required.
• Workday Certifications in integrations preferred.
• Experience supporting Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financial & Spend Management modules in a shared services or IT led model preferred.
• Experience acting as a technical lead or advisor on Workday initiatives, enhancements, or roadmap planning preferred.
• Prior experience in a financial institution or credit union environment preferred.

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security

Benefits

• No-cost employee Medical, dental, vision coverage
• Prescription benefits (including mail order)
• Paid holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) plan with contribution matching
• Paid community involvement volunteers hours
• Paid group life Insurance
• Teammate loan discounts
• Tuition reimbursement
• Short and long-term disability
• Health & Wellness program
• Teledoc (physician video conferencing)
• Onsite fitness facilities or health club reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical flexible spending account
• Dependent care flexible spending account