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About the Role

The Workday Platform & Governance Owner is the technical subject matter expert and governance authority for the Workday ecosystem supporting over 10,000 employees. This role ensures Workday remains secure, architecturally aligned, compliant, and technically optimized, providing hands-on configuration for complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

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, and Integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, Studio fundamentals).
Advise HRIT engineers on complex configuration design, new releases, AI agents, and new functionality.
Validate cross-module impacts and support troubleshooting of high-severity issues.
Mentor team members on advanced configuration practices.
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.
Create and maintain the 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.
Maintain production 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.
Maintain the enterprise 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.
Chair the Workday Change Advisory Board (CAB) for Intake and Demand.
Review cross-module impact of proposed changes.
Validate testing documentation prior to approval.
Maintain structured change control records.

Requirements

7–10 years HRIS experience
5+ years advanced hands-on Workday configuration
Workday Pro Certifications
Deep expertise across all major Workday modules
Strong Position Management and Job Management experience
Experience designing and maintaining security architecture
Strong understanding of SOD and audit controls
Experience operating within a multi-tenant governance model
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Skills

Workday Platform
Governance
Tenant Management
Security Administration
Production Change Control
Configuration Standards
Cross-module Configuration
Core HCM
Position Management
Job Management
Benefits
Compensation
Advanced Compensation
Recruiting
Talent Management
Workday Learning
Payroll
Time Tracking
Absence Management
Security
Integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, Studio)
Segregation of Duties (SOD)
Change Management
CAB Leadership

Location

New York, NY
Holmdel, NJ
Stanford, CT

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
7-10 years HRIS experience
5+ years advanced hands-on Workday configuration

Salary/Compensations

$152,290.00 - $250,195.00

Benefits

Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources
Skill-building opportunities
Leadership development opportunities
Philanthropic opportunities

About the Company

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.
Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits.
Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal 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.
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com.
Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening.
All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.
If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to MyHR@glic.com, making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number.