Enterprise Architect (Solutions Engineer), Identity

About the Team: Workday is strategically expanding into the identity management space to govern access for both employees and AI agents across the enterprise. As enterprise adoption of autonomous agents accelerates, CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs are facing a critical governance challenge: how to manage identity, access, provisioning, lifecycle automation, and least-privilege controls across a combined workforce of people and AI agents. Workday is establishing a specialized Identity team focused on helping enterprise customers modernize identity governance and access management for this new era of work. As a member of our diverse and skilled Identity presales team, you will have the opportunity to communicate and demonstrate the power of Workday's identity governance capabilities, expected to become part of Workday's Agent System of Record, to prospects and customers. This team sits at the exciting intersection of Sales, Product Management, Consulting Services, Marketing, and Value Management, giving you exposure to all areas of the business while helping customers reduce access risk, strengthen compliance, automate identity lifecycle processes, and unlock trusted AI adoption at scale. The Revenue organization at Workday is grounded in integrity, innovation, accountability, and collaboration. We are looking for experienced solution architects who can build trusted executive relationships, shape complex security and identity focused sales cycles, and help accelerate market adoption in a strategic growth area for Workday.

About the Role: In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to Workday customers and prospects, crafting the overall identity governance and access management solution strategy to achieve their business objectives. With expertise in identity and security domains and a strong understanding of enterprise SaaS solutions, you will establish yourself as a leader with a valued point of view on how organizations should govern access for both human workers and AI agents. You are comfortable engaging CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, senior technology leaders, security executives, and ecosystem partners, translating complex identity governance, provisioning, access review, least-privilege, lifecycle automation, compliance, and AI governance requirements into clear, compelling solution strategies and executive-level value propositions. Serve as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers on identity governance, authentication, authorization, and access control strategies. Design and implement integration strategies across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a strong understanding of native identity services, policies, and entitlement models. Stay ahead of industry trends (IGA, CIEM, Just-in-Time access, Zero Trust, identity for machine/non-human accounts) and share thought leadership with internal teams and customers.#identityjobs

About You: We are seeking people who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, working directly with customers to understand their needs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance our platform.

Basic Qualifications: Enterprise Architect, Identity· 4+ years in a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or identity architect/engineer role, OR equivalent hands-on experience in IAM/IGA/AI.· 1+ years focused on identity governance, identity and access management, cybersecurity, cloud security, or related solutions. Senior Enterprise Architect, Identity· 6+ years in a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or identity architect/engineer role, OR equivalent hands-on experience in IAM/IGA/AI.· 3+ years focused on identity governance, identity and access management, cybersecurity, cloud security, or related solutions. Principal Enterprise Architect, Identity· 8+ years in a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or identity architect/engineer role, OR equivalent hands-on experience in IAM/IGA/AI.· 5+ years focused on identity governance, identity and access management, cybersecurity, cloud security, or related solutions.

Other Qualifications: Foundational understanding of authentication, authorization, identity services (Okta, Entra AD, LDAP, Google Workspace), and cloud IAM basics. Practical knowledge of directory services (Okta, Entra ID, LDAP, Google Workspace, on-prem AD).Hands-on cloud experience with AWS IAM/IAM Identity Center, GCP IAM, and Azure AD/role-based access models, including how to govern them with IGA.Willingness to travel for customer meetings, partner events, or industry conferences. Industry-recognized certifications (CCSP, CISSP, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)You enjoy building new things and presenting new ideas. You love helping customers understand and solve their access management challenges. Travel is a required element of this role. The position requires up to 25% travel monthlyVISA Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement: The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. For more information regarding Workday's comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Pleasanton: Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $115,500 USD - $173,300 USDAdditional Considerations: If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $115,500 USD - $173,300 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:11/25/2026 Our Approach to Flexible WorkWith Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter. Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law. Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process! At Workday, we value our candidates' privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers. Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not. In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday. USA, TX, Austin

Type: Full Time