Principal Workday People Tech Lead - Core HCM, Benefits, Security - HealthEquity

Overview

Our mission is to SAVE AND IMPROVE LIVES BY EMPOWERING HEALTHCARE CONSUMERS. Come be part of remarkable.

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,