We are seeking an experienced Senior PeopleSoft Security Analyst to administer, assess, strengthen, and support application security across complex enterprise PeopleSoft
This hands-on technical position focuses on PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, PeopleTools, user access management, role-based access control (RBAC), query security, sensitive data protection, security auditing, and access governance.
The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing PeopleSoft security configurations, resolving complex access issues, conducting security
assessments, supporting audit and compliance initiatives, and protecting confidential employee, payroll, and enterprise information.
The selected individual will collaborate with PeopleSoft functional teams, application developers, database administrators, internal auditors, and
cybersecurity professionals to maintain secure, compliant, and properly governed application environments.
Key Responsibilities
PeopleSoft Application Security Administration
- Administer and maintain PeopleSoft application security across HCM, FSCM, EPM, and related PeopleTools environments.
- Configure and manage user profiles, roles, permission lists, component access, page access, process security, and row-level security.
- Implement and maintain role-based access controls aligned with organizational security policies.
- Review PeopleSoft security tables, role assignments, permission-list configurations, and user authorization settings.
- Troubleshoot complex application security issues involving user profiles, access permissions, roles, and security configurations.
- Maintain consistent and appropriate security controls across production and non-production environments.
User Access Management & Lifecycle Administration
- Manage access provisioning, modifications, and deprovisioning for employees, contractors, vendors, retirees, and terminated users.
- Evaluate access requirements based on employee job data, effective dates, employment status, and approved access requests.
- Identify and remediate inappropriate, excessive, outdated, or unauthorized user access.
- Review access approval workflows, manager permissions, employee timesheet access, and other security-related business processes.
- Recommend improvements to access management procedures, approval processes, and security automation.
PeopleSoft Query Security & Sensitive Data Protection
- Administer and evaluate PeopleSoft Query Manager security, including public and private queries, Query Access Groups (QAG), query trees, and
- Review existing queries to identify unauthorized access to confidential or sensitive information.
- Implement appropriate controls protecting personally identifiable information (PII), employee records, payroll data, and other restricted
- information.
- Evaluate row-level security, application permissions, and database access controls to ensure appropriate data visibility.
- Work with database administrators to investigate access to sensitive database tables and support database-level security auditing.
Access Governance, Security Auditing & Compliance
- Conduct periodic user access reviews, role recertifications, and privileged access assessments.
- Evaluate segregation-of-duties conflicts, manager approvals, and adherence to enterprise access governance requirements.
- Collect and maintain audit evidence supporting internal security assessments and compliance reviews.
- Identify security control weaknesses and develop actionable remediation recommendations.
- Review security configuration changes, role assignments, and access history to detect potential security risks.
- Coordinate remediation of audit findings with application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.
Security Monitoring, Reporting & Troubleshooting
- Develop and maintain security reports to monitor user access, role assignments, permission changes, and application security configurations.
- Analyze PeopleSoft security tables and access records to investigate potential unauthorized access.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring security monitoring, reporting, and control validation activities.
- Investigate and resolve complex security incidents involving application authorization, query access, and row-level permissions.
- Troubleshoot security-related issues across production, development, testing, and staging environments.
- Ensure sensitive production information remains appropriately protected in non-production systems.
Documentation & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Develop and maintain security procedures, access control documentation, audit reports, and remediation plans.
- Document application security configurations, operational workflows, and security monitoring procedures.
- Collaborate with PeopleSoft functional analysts, developers, DBAs, auditors, and cybersecurity teams.
- Recommend improvements to security administration, governance processes, and operational efficiency.
- Provide technical guidance on PeopleSoft application security standards and best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting PeopleSoft application security in large enterprise environments.
- Strong technical knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM, FSCM, EPM, and PeopleTools.
- Advanced experience configuring and maintaining PeopleSoft user profiles, roles, permission lists, and role-based access controls.
- Strong understanding of PeopleSoft security architecture, security tables, component/page access, process security, and row-level security.
- Experience managing user access throughout the employee lifecycle, including provisioning, access modifications, and deprovisioning.
- Strong expertise with PeopleSoft Query Manager, Query Access Groups, query trees, public/private queries, and query security permissions.
- Experience implementing security controls to protect PII, payroll information, employee records, and other confidential data.
- Experience conducting access reviews, security audits, role recertifications, segregation-of-duties assessments, and privileged access reviews.
- Ability to analyze PeopleSoft security configurations, investigate unauthorized access, and remediate control weaknesses.
- Experience creating security monitoring reports, reviewing access changes, and supporting audit evidence collection.
- Experience managing security across production and non-production PeopleSoft environments.
- Strong technical troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
- Ability to independently investigate and resolve complex PeopleSoft security issues.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with PeopleTools 8.59 or later.
- Strong experience with PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM security administration.
- Advanced SQL skills for analyzing PeopleSoft security tables, access records, and user permissions.
- Familiarity with Oracle database security and auditing.
- Knowledge of Oracle Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA).
- Experience developing automated security monitoring, access validation, or reporting processes.
- Experience supporting enterprise identity and access governance initiatives.
- Experience improving security workflows, approval processes, and access recertification procedures.
- Background supporting large-scale PeopleSoft environments with complex security and compliance requirements.