Workday Security Lead Financials and SCM

We are seeking a senior Workday Security Lead to lead security design, configuration, testing, deployment, and governance for a large public-sector Workday Financials and Supply Chain Management implementation.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on Workday security expertise, prior security leadership experience, and a strong record supporting state or local government implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday security architecture, design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
• Translate functional and compliance requirements into security specifications.
• Configure and maintain security groups, domain security policies, and business-process security policies.
• Design constrained, unconstrained, segmented, role-based, and organization-based access.
• Develop security test conditions, scripts, scenarios, and supporting test data.
• Perform unit testing and coordinate integrated security testing.
• Review functional and technical specifications to identify security requirements.
• Validate that security configuration is accurately migrated across Workday tenants.
• Coordinate security requirements across Financials, procurement, grants, budgeting, and supply-chain functions.
• Manage security documentation, access matrices, configuration workbooks, and approval records.
• Support security audits, access reviews, remediation, and segregation-of-duties activities.
• Evaluate the security impact of Workday releases and configuration changes.
• Oversee security requests and support the work of other security resources.
• Provide security status, risk, issue, and deliverable reporting.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Workday implementation or upgrade experience.
• Substantial experience serving as a Workday Security Lead.
• Required experience supporting Workday projects for state or local government organizations.
• Experience completing multiple comparable Workday implementations.
• Deep hands-on experience configuring Workday security groups, domains, business processes, roles, and permissions.
• Workday Financials and Supply Chain Management security experience.
• Experience designing and executing security testing.
• Experience migrating and validating security configuration across Workday tenants.
• Experience supporting large, complex, multi-entity organizations.
• Strong knowledge of security governance, documentation, and access-control practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, facilitation, and analytical skills.
• Ability to work on a W-2 basis.
• U.S. citizenship required due to contractual requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Philadelphia-area residence.
• Workday security experience involving grants, budgeting, procurement, and supply chain.
• Experience with security audits, segregation of duties, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience leading integrated client and consulting teams.