Title: Workday Security Consultant
Location: Remote
Duration: 6-12 month contract with occasional onsite travel
Position Overview
The Workday Security Consultant will provide hands-on leadership and execution across Workday security design, configuration, and governance within a large-scale healthcare implementation.
This role is critical to ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable access models across all Workday modules.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Workday security architecture, role-based access design, and governance frameworks, with the ability to operate in a fast-paced implementation and stabilization environment.
Qualifications
5+ years of Workday Security experience
Deep expertise in Workday security domains, roles, and business process frameworks
Experience supporting enterprise Workday implementations and stabilization efforts
Strong understanding of compliance, audit, and SoD best practices
Healthcare industry experience strongly preferred
Experience supporting testing cycles (UAT, regression, security validation)
Strong stakeholder communication and problem-solving skills
Ability to operate independently in fast-paced, high-visibility environments
Key Responsibilities
Lead design and configuration of Workday security roles, domains, and business process security policies
Evaluate and optimize role-based access controls (RBAC) and segregation of duties (SoD)
Partner with functional and technical teams to align security design with business requirements
Support user provisioning, role assignments, and access audits across Workday modules
Identify and mitigate security risks, compliance gaps, and audit findings
Drive security governance, documentation, and best practices across the program
Support testing efforts including security validation, UAT, and regression testing
Collaborate with Integrations and Technical teams on secure data access and interface design
Provide post-go-live support, troubleshooting, and ongoing security optimization