Identity Governance Architect — Remote & Flexible

Workday, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a senior Identity Architect to lead identity governance and access management for humans and AI agents across enterprise environments. You will translate complex governance, provisioning, and least-privilege needs into scalable solutions.

You’ll engage with CISOs, CIOs, CTOs and security leaders, delivering value propositions through architectural leadership, API integrations, and automation. Expect cross‑functional collaboration and travel.

Qualifications

• Enterprise Architect, Identity role with 4+ years in technical pre‑sales, solutions engineering, or IAM/IGA/AI.
• Senior Enterprise Architect, Identity with 6+ years in relevant roles.
• Principal Enterprise Architect, Identity with 8+ years in relevant roles.

Responsibilities

• Advise prospects and customers on identity governance, authentication, authorization, and access control strategies.
• Architect and deliver IAM/IGA/CIEM/PAM solutions mapping requirements to scalable identity architectures.
• Lead workshops, whiteboard sessions, and demos demonstrating identity automation and zero trust value.
• Design and implement integration strategies across AWS, GCP, and Azure with native identity services.
• Explain protocols like SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SCIM, and FIDO2 to engineers and CISOs.
• Build, test, and troubleshoot custom integrations using APIs, SDKs, and Terraform/IaC tools.
• Stay ahead on IGA/CIEM/Just‑in‑Time access and share thought leadership with teams and customers.

Skills

Identity governance

IAM/IGA/AI

Zero Trust

SAML/OAuth/OIDC

Terraform

APIs/SDKs

Go

JSON/YAML

Security architecture

Tools

AWS IAM

GCP IAM

Azure AD

Okta

Entra ID

LDAP

Google Workspace

Terraform

IaC

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a senior Identity Architect to lead identity governance and access management for humans and AI agents across enterprise environments. You will translate complex governance, provisioning, and least-privilege needs into scalable solutions.

You’ll engage with CISOs, CIOs, CTOs and security leaders, delivering value propositions through architectural leadership, API integrations, and automation. Expect cross‑functional collaboration and travel.