Full Job Description
Do what you love. Love what you do.
At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
About the Team
Workday is using the latest software development and cloud technologies to build platforms and application services to support our growth while also ensuring the protection of Workday data and infrastructure.
The Application Security organization is tasked with the delivery of technical solutions and standards in support of Workday’s SSDLC program. We empower Workday’s Product and Technology teams to rapidly deploy secure software!
About the Role
Do you have a passion for security? In this role, you will lead and develop a group of passionate engineers across a number of teams who are focused on security standards development, tool development, and application security assessment and consulting. As Director for Application Security, you are tasked with driving security into Workday’s platform and ensuring software and services are designed and implemented with security in mind from the very beginning. Workday’s Application Security Organization builds and maintains security toolchains for Workday’s application and service platforms with design choices tending to lean toward innovative technology stacks. Seamless integration of toolsets into service pipelines reducing security induced friction is one of our primary goals. The toolchains developed by the team are a critical part of the shift left initiatives at Workday.
About You
Basic qualifications
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Minimum of 7 years relevant application/product security experience
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Minimum of 5 years team leadership experience
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Possess practical Application Security skills to guide your team in making rational decisions
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Proven understanding of various Application Security strategies to help drive a Shift Left mentality
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Work with key partners from the development organizations to help automate and integrate security into their workflows and promote security practices like threat modeling, secure coding, and Security review.
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Lead, develop, and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the Application Security Organization
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A sound knowledge of Security fundamentals including access control, cryptography, vulnerability management, and Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) practices;
Other Qualifications
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Good interpersonal skills and a product focused mentality to build the right solutions for your customers
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Established record of successfully operating in a fast-paced environment
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Ability to handle multiple project streams and deliver timely results
As a federal contractor, Workday is requiring all new hires to verify that they are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 within 72 hours of beginning employment with Workday, consistent with applicable law. Workday is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates who are not vaccinated due to a sincerely held religious belief, medical reasons, or other legally-protected reason should contact
to explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations or exemptions Workday is able to offer.
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.
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More Information
- Address Pleasanton, CA, USA
- Salary Offer $100.000 ~
- Experience Level Senior
- Total Years Experience 10-20
