Workday Security Specialist

TEKsystems
$50.00 - $60.00 / hr
sick time, 401(k)
United States, Washington, Seattle
Nov 13, 2024
**Workday Security Specialist / 6 Month Contract-to-Perm / Hybrid Weekly Work Schedule / Must be Local to the Greater Seattle, WA Area** Top Required Skills * Must have Workday experience * Must be local to the greater Seattle, WA area * Must be able to work a weekly hybrid schedule * 2 years of Workday Security knowledge/experience * Workday Extend experience * Experience with making role assignments. * Providing thought leadership on where the team can make improvements/adjustments. * Great soft skills - demonstrated patience and care when dealing with tickets. Job Description * The Cybersecurity Specialist is a member of the Workday Security Team. This team supports critical infrastructure and IT services for account and credential management, authentication, sign-on, access control and administration and participation in global security federations, all in support of institutional finance, HR, and Payroll needs for identity, privacy, security, accountability, transparency, efficiency, and cost-effective management of institutional risk. * This position provides technical consulting, education, outreach, and support to the customers and end-users of Workday Access services. * Responsibilities include researching and responding to customer needs, troubleshooting complex security issues, developing business requirements, contributing to projects that change the Workday feature sets and business processes, and coordinating testing/validation of security changes. * This position must collaborate across teams and with individuals in a complex business, technical, organizational, and policy framework that requires reliable, cost-effective solutions for Workday identity, privacy, access management, integration, and risk management. * Under the guidance of leadership team members, this position will navigate existing procedure documentation to provide clear, consistent technical advice and/or solutions for business problems; analyze and resolve problems in design and operations; understand Workday services and solutions. * Success in this position will require agility in navigating current procedure documentation, using facts as well as hands on learning exploration, adopting, adapting to, and advocating for new technologies; and revising and replacing their own practices to respond to new requirements and opportunities as they arise. Responsibilities Technical Support and End-user Consulting (70%): * Act as a Workday security analyst and coordinate closely with technically complex partner organizations across the company enterprise to ensure data is accessed in a way that meets the company business needs. * Work across Workday functional areas, and with partner organizations to directly support the evolving security design of the company's Workday HCM and Financials modules. * Troubleshoot complex security issues, develop business requirements and contribute robust security design options to projects that change the Workday feature sets and business processes. * Collaborate and partner with multiple customer stakeholder groups across the organization including project team members. * Work closely with system stakeholders across the HCM, Benefits, Finance and Payroll spectrum. Documentation, Training, & Communication (30%) * Maintain thorough documentation on Security routine procedure and protocol transparent internally within Workday Operations as well as within company Information Technology. * Support communication of security advisories, configuration updates and known issues. * Stay up to date on information technology trends and security standards CIS, NIST, ISO. * Work with a diverse group of individuals; placing a value on diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. Requirements: * Minimum two years' experience providing direct customer support with Workday in an enterprise help desk or service desk environment responsible for self-service, request fulfillment, incident management, problem and change resolution. * Demonstrated ability in technical writing, maintaining and developing internal and external customer facing knowledge base articles, and customer communications. * Knowledge of identity and access management practices and tools in a business or university setting. * Familiarity providing documentation, training and technical instructions to customers with varied technical expertise. * Demonstrated ability to identify, assist in, and resolve issues with services, using agreed upon procedures. * Demonstrated written / oral communication skills, user liaison skills, and personal interaction abilities. We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. This temporary role may be eligible for the following: * Medical, dental & vision * 401(k)/Roth * Insurance (Basic/Supplemental Life & AD&D) * Short and long-term disability * Health and Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HAS & DCFSA) * Transportation benefits * Employee Assistance Program * Time off/Leave (PTO, Vacation, or Sick Leave) About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.