Workday Security- Application Consultant

Capgemini; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Workday Security Consultant to join our team in Atlanta, GA. You will design, configure, test, and maintain Workday security solutions across security groups, domains, and business processes to protect workforce data while enabling operations.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years' hands-on Workday Security experience, strong knowledge of IAM, SSO/MFA, and security governance, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams in a global client environment.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on Workday Security experience supporting implementations, optimisations, or production support engagements.
• Strong knowledge of Workday Security architecture, including User-Based and Role-Based Security Groups, constrained and unconstrained security models, domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, and security activation.
• Experience performing security impact analysis, deployment validation, regression testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong understanding of Workday integration security, including Integration System Users (ISUs), Integration System Security Groups (ISSGs), API and web-service security, OAuth2.0 authentication, and credential governance.
• Experience supporting security audits, access reviews, compliance initiatives, remediation efforts, and security governance activities.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot access-related issues involving security groups, domains, business processes, role assignments, reports, and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business, security, privacy, and compliance requirements and translate them into Workday security configurations.
• Configure and maintain Workday security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, and related security settings.
• Support security design activities, including role modeling, persona development, and least-privilege access frameworks.
• Troubleshoot system access issues related to security groups, domains, business processes, organisations, reports, and integrations.
• Support security for reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIBs, integrations, RaaS, APIs, and web services.
• Perform security impact assessments for configuration changes, releases, enhancements, and integrations.
• Create and execute security test scenarios including unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, and UAT support.
• Support audit, compliance, governance, and privileged-access review activities.
• Identify segregation-of-duties conflicts, excessive access, and security risks while providing remediation recommendations.
• Participate in tenant migrations, deployment activities, Workday releases, and post-production validation efforts.
• Develop and maintain security documentation, design workbooks, test scripts, support procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Workday teams to ensure secure and sustainable solutions are delivered according to client and Capgemini standards.

Skills

Workday Security

IAM

SSO

MFA

Security governance

Audits

Troubleshooting

Access control

Data privacy

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree (HR/IS/CS/Business)

Tools

OAuth 2.0

Workday

Job description

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired bya collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizationsunlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

About the Job You're Considering

Capgemini is seeking a Workday Security Consultant to join our team. In this role, you will support the design, configuration, testing, governance, and maintenance of Workday security solutions that protect sensitive workforce data while enabling business operations. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience configuring and supporting Workday security across security groups, domains, business processes, reports, integrations, and tenant access controls. You will collaborate closely with functional, integration, reporting, audit, and identity management teams to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant Workday solutions throughout implementation, optimisation, and production support engagements. Application Consultants understand the client business process, current and future, and map it to the technologies being used, giving a demarcation of what can be achieved through a standard implementation and what would need customisations or extensions to be done to the application. They may functionally customise the application, partner with application developers to design application enhancements and extensions, and work with business users to implement process changes. Focus must be provided on building solutions and on maintaining, optimising and improving a client's applications and systems. Develop your knowledge in a business and industry domain and a Saas or Package Based solution. One can contribute to a business and technical blueprint and customise the respective Software Package Module. Application Consultant is responsible for unit testing, contribute to integration testing, and be responsible for the design and delivery of end user training. Certification: Certification on Saas or Package Based solution and relevant methodology, as available.

Your Role

• Analyze business, security, privacy, and compliance requirements and translate them into Workday security configurations.
• Configure and maintain Workday security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, and related security settings.
• Support security design activities, including role modeling, persona development, and least-privilege access frameworks.
• Troubleshoot system access issues related to security groups, domains, business processes, organisations, reports, and integrations.
• Support security for reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIBs, integrations, RaaS, APIs, and web services.
• Perform security impact assessments for configuration changes, releases, enhancements, and integrations.
• Create and execute security test scenarios including unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, and UAT support.
• Support audit, compliance, governance, and privileged-access review activities.
• Identify segregation-of-duties conflicts, excessive access, and security risks while providing remediation recommendations.
• Participate in tenant migrations, deployment activities, Workday releases, and post-production validation efforts.
• Develop and maintain security documentation, design workbooks, test scripts, support procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Collaborate with cross-functional Workday teams to ensure secure and sustainable solutions are delivered according to client and Capgemini standards.

Your Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 3 to 5 years of hands‑on Workday Security experience supporting implementations, optimisations, or production support engagements.
• Strong knowledge of Workday Security architecture, including User‑Based and Role‑Based Security Groups, constrained and unconstrained security models, domain security policies, business process security policies, role assignments, and security activation.
• Experience designing, configuring, testing, and supporting Workday security solutions across HCM modules while balancing business requirements, user experience, compliance, privacy, and segregation‑of‑duties controls.
• Experience performing security impact analysis, deployment validation, regression testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong understanding of Workday integration security, including Integration System Users (ISUs), Integration System Security Groups (ISSGs), API and web‑service security, OAuth2.0 authentication, and credential governance.
• Experience supporting security audits, access reviews, compliance initiatives, remediation efforts, and security governance activities.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot access‑related issues involving security groups, domains, business processes, role assignments, reports, and integrations.
• Strong analytical, organisational, problem‑solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex security concepts to both technical and business audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage confidential employee and organisational information with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment.

Preferred Skills

• Active Workday Security, Workday HCM Core, or related Workday Partner Certification.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), Single Sign‑On (SSO), Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA), and user provisioning processes.
• Experience supporting security for Workday Reporting, Prism Analytics, Calculated Fields, Integrations, and related data access controls.
• Knowledge of Workday release management, security regression testing, and deployment support.
• Familiarity with security governance, risk management, audit, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience supporting global Workday deployments, shared‑services organisations, and client‑facing consulting engagements.

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $68,911- $195,199. Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law. The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction. These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licences, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity. It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non‑negotiable benefits package to all regular, full‑time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include: Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada) Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada) Life and disability insurance Employee assistance programs Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. Capgemini also participates in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) program which supports meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities across Canada by promoting fairness, accessibility, inclusion and respect. We value the rich cultural heritage and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and actively work to create a welcoming and respectful environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodation does not pose an undue hardship. Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodation during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact.

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Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end‑to‑end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market‑leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.