Workday · 19 hours ago
Director, Enterprise Identity
McLean, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$227K/yr - $340K/yr
10+ years expWorkday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. As the Director of Enterprise Identity, you will define and implement the strategy for all Enterprise Identity and Access Management systems, leading a team to build a resilient, Zero Trust ecosystem that secures global identities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and implement the strategy for all Enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems
Lead an elite team of engineers to build a resilient, Zero Trust ecosystem that secures thousands of global identities across a complex, multi-cloud environment
Act as a key advisor to executives, translating sophisticated identity risks into strategic business outcomes and ensuring that our identity posture evolves at the speed of modern threats
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in a cybersecurity engineering, architecture, cloud and/or related role
8+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management (IGA), Identity Governance Administration (IGA), or related
5+ years of people leadership experience
5+ years experience in crafting strategic roadmaps, balancing partner objectives, driving execution, and leading change across the enterprise
Experience designing and implementing security controls and processes such as authentication, authorization, role- and policy- based access control, and zero standing privilege
Expertise to clearly communicate to business and technical executives daily
Ability to connect with both technical and non-technical staff. Ability to translate sophisticated technical concepts into plain English and present them in a way that decision-makers can understand
Positive influencing skills both verbally and through the preparation of written materials in order to build relationships, influence and negotiate
Solid project management and delegation skills in prioritizing and re-prioritizing projects of various size and complexity across multiple functional groups and departments
Benefits
Workday Bonus Plan
Annual refresh stock grants
Company
Workday
Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Workday has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (331)
2024 (388)
2023 (262)
2022 (503)
2021 (290)
2020 (229)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.23BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.New Enterprise AssociatesGreylock
2025-09-16Post Ipo Equity· $2B
2012-10-12IPO
2011-10-24Series F· $85M
Leadership Team
Aneel Bhusri
CEO and Co-Founder
Peter Bailis
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2026-01-25
2026-01-23
GlobeNewswire
2026-01-23
Company data provided by crunchbase