Peoplesoft Security Analyst

Required Skills and Experience

Seeking a senior consultant with extensive hands-on experience in PeopleSoft application security administration, access governance, security auditing, and user access management. The candidate must have strong technical knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, PeopleTools, and enterprise security controls.

PeopleSoft Application Security

Extensive experience managing PeopleSoft user profiles, roles, permission lists, row-level security, component and page access, process security, and role-based access control (RBAC).

PeopleSoft Security Administration

Strong knowledge of PeopleSoft security architecture, security tables, role assignments, permission-list configuration, user access provisioning, and security configuration across production and non-production environments.

User Lifecycle Management

Experience managing employee, contractor, vendor, retiree, and terminated-user access based on HR job data, effective dates, employment status, and approved access requests. Ability to identify and resolve inappropriate or outdated access.

PeopleSoft Query Security

Extensive knowledge of PeopleSoft Query Manager, public and private queries, Query Access Groups (QAG), query trees, permission lists, and controls governing access to sensitive data. Experience reviewing public queries and identifying unauthorized exposure of sensitive information is highly desirable.

Sensitive Data and PII Protection

Experience securing access to personally identifiable information (PII), employee records, payroll data, and other confidential information through appropriate roles, permission lists, row-level security, and database access controls.

Access Governance and Auditing

Experience performing periodic access reviews, user and role recertification, manager approvals, segregation-of-duties reviews, privileged access assessments, audit evidence collection, and remediation of security findings.

Security Monitoring and Reporting

Ability to develop and maintain security reports, monitor changes to user access and security configurations, investigate unauthorized access, identify control gaps, and automate recurring security monitoring activities.

PeopleSoft Security Auditing

Experience reviewing PeopleSoft security tables and access records, analyzing security changes, validating user and role assignments, and coordinating with database administrators to audit access to sensitive database tables. Knowledge of Oracle Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA) is preferred.

Production and Environment Security

Experience managing security across production, development, test, and staging environments. Ability to validate security configurations, identify inappropriate access, and ensure sensitive production data is appropriately protected in non-production environments.

Workflow and Access Approvals

Experience reviewing and improving access request workflows, approval processes, manager access, employee timesheet access, and security-related operational procedures. Ability to identify process gaps and recommend automation and standardization improvements.

Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution

Ability to independently investigate complex PeopleSoft access issues involving roles, permission lists, query access, row-level security, user profiles, and application authorization. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required.

Technical Documentation and Collaboration

Ability to document security procedures, audit findings, access control reviews, and remediation plans. Must collaborate effectively with PeopleSoft functional teams, developers, DBAs, internal auditors, and cybersecurity teams.

Additional Skills and Information

Strong hands-on expertise in PeopleSoft security administration, HCM and FSCM security, roles and permission lists, Query Manager, Query Access Groups, row-level security, PII protection, access reviews, security reporting, and audit compliance. Experience supporting large enterprise PeopleSoft environments with complex security requirements is strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with PeopleTools 8.59 or later, PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, PeopleSoft security tables, SQL, Oracle database auditing, Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA), security automation, and enterprise access governance.