Job Description
About the Role
Workday's identity surface is large, distributed, and growing spanning multi-account AWS environments, enterprise SaaS, a global workforce, and an expanding set of AI-driven workloads. Identity is no longer a support function; it's a core security boundary and an enabler of how we build and ship products.
We're looking for a Principal Identity and Access Management Architect to own the strategy, design, and long-term direction of our IAM program. This is not an operational role. You'll set the patterns other engineers build against, make the architectural calls that shape how we scale, and work directly with engineering, security, and Risk leadership to drive alignment across the organization.
The scope spans human and non-human identity, cloud authorization, federation, secrets management, and the emerging challenge of securing AI agents in production — where the patterns don't fully exist yet and you'll be helping to define them.
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