Workday

Sr. IAM Cybersecurity Engineer, Enterprise Identity

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1 day ago
Reston, VA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$144k - $258k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Understand business needs and anticipate threats in partnership with business leaders and enterprise stakeholders.
  • Identify, assess, and evaluate cybersecurity risks for enterprise projects.
  • Lead and maintain the IAM, ILM, IGA, and PAM identity program.
  • Architect and implement Zero Standing Privileges frameworks, Just-In-Time provisioning, risk-adaptive policies, and contextual access evaluations.
  • Develop secure business requirements, support security architecture, and integrate contextual authorization into identity and governance platforms.
  • Evaluate and update security policies and procedures to support modern identity and least-privilege approaches.
  • Maintain organization-wide responsibility for identity cybersecurity across multiple departments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of related IT or information security experience with a BS degree, or 4+ years with an MS degree.
  • Proficiency in information security concepts and familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Experience with Okta, including IAM and Workflows.
  • Experience with IGA tooling such as Okta Identity Governance or SailPoint.
  • Experience with identity lifecycle management concepts and source-of-truth systems.
  • Experience designing and implementing security systems, procedures, and protocols, including encryption, authentication, intrusion detection, risk assessment, and vulnerability evaluation.
  • Understanding of Zero Trust, identity management principles, MFA, SSO, SAML, OIDC, and LDAP.
  • Experience with scripting languages for identity automation.
  • Strong verbal and written communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • CISSP or an equivalent certification is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annualized base salary ranges are $159,600-$239,400 for the primary Reston, Virginia location and $144,400-$258,000 for additional U.S. locations.
  • May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Flexible work model combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or field.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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