# Senior/Principal Solution Architect - Identity & Governance at Workday

- Company: Workday
- What the company does: Experience a new way to work with Sana and agentic AI from Workday. Backed by Greylock, NEA and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.workday.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: 13 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $166K to $249K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-08
- Apply by: 2026-12-23
- Apply: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Senior-Principal-Solution-Architect---Identity---Governance_JR-0111284?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-senior-principal-solution-architect-identity-and-governance/

## About the role

Workday is looking for an experienced technologist with a focus on Identity Governance to join the Solution Consulting - Global Solution Architecture team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or identity architect role, OR equivalent hands-on experience in IAM/IGA
- 5+ years of experience with authentication and authorization frameworks, MFA, step-up auth, conditional access, least privilege, and Zero Trust
- Knowledge of directory services (Okta, Azure AD/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
- 8+ years in a technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or identity architect role, OR equivalent hands-on experience in IAM/IGA
- 8+ years of experience with authentication and authorization frameworks, MFA, step-up auth, conditional access, least privilege, and Zero Trust


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-senior-principal-solution-architect-identity-and-governance/