# Senior Principal Cybersecurity GRC - Public Sector

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $201,200 - $301,800 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re Workday, a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We're seeking a Senior Principal Cybersecurity GRC - Public Sector to join our team.

The Workday Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, Compliance & Trust (cGRCT) team enables business agility while maintaining a strong security posture via intelligent risk-taking, optimized controls management, and iterative security governance. The cGRCT Public Sector pillar’s mission is to enable and maintain Workday’s Public Sector offerings through certification, continuous monitoring, consultation and deep stakeholder alignment.

As a Senior Principal Cybersecurity GRC - Public Sector, you will play a vital role in ensuring continued compliance across public sector frameworks, assist in prioritizing future system changes and manage the audit lifecycle for the FedRAMP program. You will lead security and compliance related interactions with Workday's Federal customers and advise internal business partners on risk and compliance requirements related to the product development lifecycle and other strategic organizational initiatives.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the design, implementation and assessment of Workday's US Federal offerings

- Ensure continued compliance across public sector frameworks

- Prioritize future system changes and manage the audit lifecycle for the FedRAMP program

- Lead security and compliance related interactions with Workday's Federal customers

- Advise internal business partners on risk and compliance requirements

**Requirements**

- 12+ years of experience in an equivalent governance, risk & compliance and/or related engineering role

- 5+ years direct experience with the FedRAMP Framework, DoD Impact levels IL4, IL5 and IL6, and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503 requirements

- Experience prioritizing technical changes to a FedRAMP system and apply controls to ensure audit readiness and acceptability

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

- Experience leading system design with engineering to provide technical guidance documentation

- Experience designing federal SaaS cloud computing systems including source control management, logging & monitoring systems, FIPS encryption methods, access controls and vulnerability management

- Strong communications skills (written and verbal) and attention to detail

- Proven program/project management experience (especially audit management)

- Ability to lead multiple projects and organize time effectively

- Organized, adaptable, and able to gain support and consensus with cross-functional partners

- CISA, CISSP, PMP, CIPP or other related certifications

**Benefits**

- Annualized base salary range: $201,200 - $301,800 USD

- Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus

- Annual refresh stock grants

- Comprehensive benefits package

**Work Arrangement**

- Flex Work: combine in-person time and remote work

- Spend at least half (50%) of time each quarter in the office or in the field

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## Skills

### Required
- FedRAMP Framework
- DoD Impact levels
- Intelligence Community Directive 503
- governance
- risk & compliance
- engineering

### Nice to have
- DoD 8570/8140 compliant
- IAT Level II certification
- CompTIA CySA+
- GICSP
- CASP+

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