Senior Workday Security Administrator

Cambium Learning Group

Senior Security Administrator shaping Workday security strategy in a fast-moving environment. Ensuring efficient access control, data privacy, and operational integrity for corporate data.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, implementation, testing, release, and hypercare.
Provide expertise in security architecture, ensuring appropriate access controls, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency across HCM, Financial, and Payroll modules.
Maintain a strong business perspective to ensure systems are implemented in ways that support operational goals and user needs.
Ensure solutions meet high standards of quality, with successful delivery driven by thorough testing and validation practices.
Collaborate across multiple projects simultaneously, effectively balancing priorities, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineering team members, fostering growth and knowledge sharing.
Continuously evaluate new Workday features and third-party technologies, proposing enhancements that improve system functionality and performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of Workday security administration experience.
Mastery of creating, maintaining, and auditing security groups (user-based, role-based, constrained, unconstrained, intersection, segmented, etc.)
Proficient in configuring ISUs/ISSGs and their domain and business process security policies, including knowledge of how to secure Workday web services.
Strong working knowledge of managing authentication policy, authenticated login with SAML SSO, Multi-Factor Authentication, OAuth 2.0, IP restriction, certificates and keys.
Enterprise experience in ensuring consistent, scalable, and least-privileged access aligned with organizational policies and compliance requirements.
Practiced in provisioning Implementer tenant access, Service Center Representative configuration, migration access, and proxy access policy.
Skilled in supporting bi-annual Workday platform releases, including adoption planning, retirement of functionality, and regression testing of existing functionality.
Versed in promoting deployments through formal change management and release management procedures.
Experienced in gathering requirements from users and proposing alternative designs.
Comfortable working with business stakeholders to diagnostically research and solve business process and access issues.
Ability to develop a detailed implementation plan to monitor and track progress, and capable of adapting to change in project scope and schedule.
Attentive to creation of documentation to support knowledge transfer and utilization of implemented solutions.
Adept at supporting internal controls audits through report generation, stakeholder evaluation, and evidence production.
Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills.
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Information Security, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote First Work Environment
Reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office
Equal Opportunity Employer

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Hard Skills & Tools

Workday security administrationSecurity group managementISUs/ISSGs configurationAuthentication policy managementSAML SSOMulti-Factor AuthenticationOAuth 2.0Provisioning Implementer tenant accessRegression testingChange management

Soft Skills

Interpersonal skillsCommunication skillsCollaborationProblem-solvingAdaptabilityMentorshipDocumentation creationStakeholder managementPrioritizationBusiness perspective

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Information TechnologyBachelor's Degree in Information Security