Overview

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How you can make a difference

The Principal Workday People Tech Lead - Core HCM, Benefits, Security serves as the strategic domain owner for Workday Core HCM, Benefits, and Security at HealthEquity. This role is responsible not only for the design, integrity, and long-term evolution of foundational Workday configuration, but also for protecting the operational and architectural coherence of the broader platform as Workday expands across the enterprise.

This role functions as the senior-most technical authority for foundational Workday design decisions, with responsibility for ensuring that worker data structures, business processes, security models, organizational frameworks, and foundational configuration patterns remain scalable, governable, and sustainable over time. The role brings deep enterprise-level Workday expertise into implementation and operational decision-making, proactively identifying downstream impacts, architectural risks, and long-term maintenance concerns before they become operational problems.

As a key leader within the People Technology organization, this role partners closely with the Strategic Platform Owner, Workday Delivery leadership, People COEs, IT, Security, and Finance to ensure that foundational platform decisions support both current operational needs and future organizational evolution. This role is expected to influence platform direction through expertise, judgment, and systems thinking, while serving as a stabilizing technical anchor for an expanding People Technology function.

This role is particularly critical during implementation and early post-go-live maturity, where foundational decisions related to Core HCM, Benefits, security architecture, worker data design, and governance standards will shape the long-term scalability and maintainability of the platform.

Success in this role is defined by platform stability, architectural integrity, scalable governance, security and audit readiness, clean cross-domain interoperability, and the platform’s ability to evolve without accumulating unnecessary complexity, fragmentation, or technical debt.

What you’ll be doing

Serve as the senior-most technical owner and architectural steward for Workday Core HCM and Security design.

Own the long-term integrity, scalability, and maintainability of foundational Workday configuration, including worker data structures, lifecycle frameworks, business processes, and security architecture.

Lead the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of complex foundational Workday functionality with significant cross-domain or enterprise impact.

Evaluate and influence implementation and enhancement decisions through a long-term platform lens, proactively identifying downstream impacts, operational risks, governance concerns, and future maintenance implications.

Ensure Core HCM, Benefits, and Security configuration supports clean interoperability across Payroll, Time, Talent, Recruiting, Reporting, Integrations, and TMX capabilities.

Guide foundational organizational and worker data design decisions, including supervisory organizations, positions, worker structures, lifecycle events, and related enterprise frameworks.

Serve as the primary technical authority for Workday security architecture, including role-based security, domain security policies, business process security, segmentation approaches, and audit considerations.

Partner closely with IT, Identity & Access Management, Security, and integration teams to ensure alignment between Workday security architecture and broader enterprise governance standards.

Establish and maintain governance practices that reduce configuration drift, unnecessary customization, fragmented design patterns, and long-term technical debt.

Serve as a senior technical advisor and mentor to People Technology team members, helping elevate platform thinking, governance discipline, and architectural maturity across the function.

Contribute to release governance, cross-domain risk evaluation, testing strategy, and platform readiness discussions as a foundational platform authority.

Maintain strong awareness of emerging Workday capabilities, platform changes, and industry best practices to continuously strengthen foundational platform health

What you will need to be successful

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Human Resources, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Business, or a related field.

Required: 8+ years experience owning and evolving Workday Core HCM architecture in complex enterprise environments.

Required: 4+ years experience designing and governing Workday Security architecture, including role-based security, domain security policies, business process security, segmentation, and audit/compliance considerations.

Experience partnering with executive stakeholders, implementation partners, and cross-functional enterprise teams during large-scale Workday implementations or transformations.

Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Advanced understanding of Workday Core HCM architecture, worker data structures, organizational frameworks, business process frameworks, and cross-domain dependencies.

Deep expertise in Workday Security architecture and governance, including domain security policies, role-based access models, segregation of duties, audit readiness, and enterprise security strategy.

Strong architectural and systems-thinking mindset, with the ability to evaluate decisions through long-term operational and platform sustainability lenses.

Ability to identify and articulate downstream impacts, governance risks, technical debt concerns, and cross-platform implications before they become operational issues.

Ability to influence senior leaders, implementation partners, and cross-functional stakeholders through expertise, credibility, and thoughtful platform stewardship.

Experience balancing platform flexibility, operational usability, governance rigor, security requirements, and long-term maintainability.

Strong communication and documentation skills, particularly in translating complex technical and architectural concepts into operationally actionable guidance.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:

Workday Core HCM certification strongly preferred.

Workday Security certification strongly preferred.

Additional Workday certifications (Benefits, Reporting, Integrations, Payroll, or related modules) strongly preferred.

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This is a remote position.

Salary Range

$120,500.00 To $165,000.00 / year

Benefits & Perks

The compensation range describes the typical minimum or maximum base pay range for this position. The actual compensation offer is determined based on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, and work location. This position will be eligible for performance-based incentives as part of the total compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits including:

Medical, dental, and vision
HSA contribution and match
Dependent care FSA match
Uncapped paid time off
Adventure accounts
Paid parental leave
401(k) match
Personal and healthcare financial literacy programs
Ongoing education & tuition assistance
Gym and fitness reimbursement
Wellness program incentives

Why work with HealthEquity

Why work for HealthEquity

HealthEquity has a vision that by 2030 we will make HSAs as wide-spread and popular as retirement accounts. We are passionate about providing a solution that allows American families to connect health and wealth. Join us and discover a work experience where the person is valued more than the position. Click here to learn more.

Come be your authentic self

HealthEquity, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. HealthEquity is a drug-free workplace. For more information about our EEO policy, or about HealthEquity’s applicant disability accommodation, drug-free-workplace, background check, and E-Verify policies, please visit our Careers page.

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