Senior Systems Engineer, Workday & AI Security

Salesforce, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 117,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer to bridge technical and functional delivery across Workday HCM and Workday Financials. You will handle security architecture, configuration, testing, and compliance in IT Finance and Employee Success, collaborating with Product Managers and SMEs.

You will decompose use cases into detailed specs, perform hands-on configuration, lead UAT, and assess build vs. buy options.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Independently decompose Product Manager-authored use cases into detailed technical requirements, user stories, edge cases, and validation rules.
• Perform hands-on configuration across primary assigned platforms; evaluate design tradeoffs and document the rationale behind configuration decisions.
• Conduct build vs. buy feasibility assessments (technical complexity, integration impact, effort) and surface recommendations to the Product Manager.
• Lead UAT execution for assigned features — prep test environments, guide business SMEs through testing, and triage/resolve defects for re-testing.
• Write and maintain integration-aware test cases; execute end-to-end regression testing across system boundaries.
• Identify upstream/downstream integration impacts before build begins and coordinate with integration engineers.
• Author release notes documenting what changed, how it was tested, and known impacts or dependencies.
• Perform peer reviews of configuration authored by other team members and managed service providers.
• Design and implement Workday security models, perform impact analysis and recommend the best practices
• Manage periodic platform release implementation (e.g., quarterly/bi-annual platform releases) for assigned systems.
• Own SOX IT Application Control mechanics for assigned systems — complete quarterly control certifications and support audit walkthroughs independently.
• Participate actively in backlog refinement and Big Room Planning sessions; ensure Definition of Ready compliance for sprint items.
• Begin contributing to AI/Agent build tasks — configure and test basic Agentforce flows or platform AI features within assigned systems.
• Support production triage and contribute to root cause analysis when issues occur, escalating and coordinating with Ops/engineering as needed.

Skills

Workday configuration

Security framework

UAT leadership

Agile/Scrum

SOX compliance

Integration awareness

Release management

Peer reviews

Testing

Education

Technical degree

Tools

Git

Workday

CI/CD

Testing tools

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer to bridge technical and functional delivery across Workday HCM and Workday Financials. You will handle security architecture, configuration, testing, and compliance in IT Finance and Employee Success, collaborating with Product Managers and SMEs.

You will decompose use cases into detailed specs, perform hands-on configuration, lead UAT, and assess build vs. buy options.