Workday Platform & Governance Owner Workday SME

Position Summary

The Workday Platform & Governance Owner serves as the technical subject matter expert (SME) and governance authority for the Workday ecosystem supporting 10000 employees.

This roleis responsible fortenant management security administration production change control configuration standards and complex cross-module configuration within Workday.

This position operates within IT operating within a structured HRIS (functional design) and HRIT (technical delivery) model. This role ensures Workdayremainssecure architecturally aligned compliant and technically optimized. While HRITEngineersown module delivery this role serves as the enterprise technical SME across all Workday domains and provides hands-on configuration for complex or cross-functional initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Technical SME (All Workday Modules)

• 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)

Responsibilities include advisingHRITengineerson complex configuration design new releases AI agents and new functionalityvalidatingcross-module impacts supporting troubleshooting of high-severity issues and mentoring team members on advanced configuration practices.

Hands-On Configuration Responsibilities

• Configure complex cross-domain business processes

• Design and implement advanced security groups and domain policies

• Configure complex eligibility rules and condition logic

• Support advanced compensation cycle setup

• Configure complex Position Management structures

• Build enterprise-impact calculated fields

• Support integration troubleshooting

• Perform configuration clean-up and technical debt remediation

Tenant Management & Environment Governance

• Create and Maintain Tenant Management Plan
• Oversee all Workday tenants (Production Sandbox Dev Preview)

• Coordinate sandbox refresh schedules

• Enforce Dev Test Prod migration controls

• Approve production configuration migrations

• Oversee release preview cycles

• Maintainproduction 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

Security & Access Governance

• Maintainenterprise Workday security model

• Monitor and remediate segregation of duties (SOD) conflicts

• Conduct periodic security reviews

• Review elevated access requests

• Partner with IT Security and Audit teams

Production Change Control & CAB Leadership

• Chair Workday Change Advisory Board (CAB)for Intake and Demand

• Review cross-module impact of proposed changes

• Validatetesting documentation prior to approval

• Maintainstructured change control records

Required Qualifications

• 710 years HRIS experience

• 5 years advanced hands-on Workday configuration

• Workday Pro Certifications

• Deepexpertiseacross all major Workday modules

• Strong Position Management and Job Management experience

• Experience designing andmaintainingsecurity architecture

• Strong understanding of SOD and audit controls

• Experienceoperatingwithin a multi-tenant governance model

Location:

• Three days a week at a Guardian office in New York NY Holmdel NJ or Stanford CT>

Salary Range:

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education experience knowledge and abilities of the successful addition to salary this role may also be eligible for annual sales or other incentive compensation.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age race color creed religion sex affectional or sexual orientation national origin ancestry marital status disability military or veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

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Visa Sponsorship

Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday.