Sr. Workday Architect Resume
Santa Rose, CA
SUMMARY
- More than 11+ of years of IT experience in software design, development and implementation of various Java applications and SaaS products like Workday .
- Responsible for developing initial Project Confidential, detailed Project Plan, Project initiation documentation, etc.
- Led proposal team for defining technical solution to implement Workday HR, Payroll, Finance and Supply - chain Management across 35 countries.
- Overall accountability for the successful conversion and integration of data and system requirements to ensure efficient solutions across all systems and vendors.
- Conceptualized, designed, developed and delivered several Workday finance conversion tools/templates for General Ledger(with 2+ million lines), Budget, Business Assets, Suppliers(Setup, Contracts and Invoices), Customers(Setup, Contracts and Invoices),Credit Cards, Projects, Bank accounts using global team.
- Designed and development various Workday custom reports to validate conversion data and clean-up/enhance legacy data.
- Involved in Full cycle implementation of Workday Modules HCM, Advance Compensation, BIRT, and Benefits.
- HRIS experience in Workday Prism, EIB, PS Query, OBIEE reporting and this includes Customization, Upgrade, Maintenance, Support and Testing.
- Providing AMS ongoing configuration management for mid to large market clients in the banking, pharmaceutical and travel sectors.
- Responsible for overall client delivery and satisfaction as it relates to Workday configuration.
- People Management, Coaching and Mentoring. Seven direct team members; dotted line to twelve team members across the US and India.
- Responsible for managing all stages of the project for the client, from requirements definition gathering to project planning and implementation.
- Worked in full life cycle Workday HR implementation project including production support for HCM, Compensation, Payroll and Time & Absence modules implementation.
- Worked on setting up the entire framework of Time tracking including- Creating Time Entry Codes, Groups, Time Entry Templates and the Business Process for Entering Time, Setting up Period schedules, Worker eligibility rules.
- Analyzed the functionality of Time & Labor pages, components, records and menus. Tested the functionality of Time & Labor workflow related to payroll.
- Work directly with key business and IT stakeholders to confirm requirements, consider design alternatives, facilitate discussions and ultimately drive requirements sign-off.
- Responsible for managing Prototype(P1) related conversion activities and getting it reviewed from end-users.
- Key liaison between customer technical teams and interface vendors technical team.
- Strong understanding of Business needs, excellent communications, can address at all levels of business, Task Prioritization, Attention to Detail, Quality Driven.
- Extensive experience and knowledge in Human Resources processes - Job requisitions, Cost centres and its allocations, Recruiting, Hiring, Employee record maintenance, Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, Training, Performance Management, Talent Management, Applicant Tracking, On-boarding, Employee self-service.
- Pioneered in several full life cycle HR system implementations. A consistent high performer with excellent client relationship management skills.
- Possess strong analytical, problem solving and programming skills.
- Excellent Team player with result-oriented, fast learner, excellent communication skills.
- Ability to converge technical skills and analysis methods to provide solutions to meet business needs.
- Continuously strives to cultivate technical development skills and to adapt industry best practices.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
HRMS Modules: HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Absence Management, Recruiting, and Time Tracking, Payroll, Financial Management
Workday Tools: Workday, Integrations, Workday Studio, CCB, EIB, Core Connectors, Packaged Integrations, XSLT, XTT, Document Transformation, Web Services, SOAP, REST, WSDL, XML, Reporting, Custom Reports, Advanced Reports)
Oracle EBS: Oracle EBS 11i, R12, Finance, General Ledger, Receivables, Payables, Order Management, Inventory, Purchasing, Order-to-Cash
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Santa Rose, CA
Sr. Workday Architect
Responsibilities:
- Creating end to end recruiting process for clients from creating bp like job application, offer, hire, and onboarding, setup external carrier site, questionnaires, offer letters and review
- Created Supervisory organization, cost center hierarchies, and location hierarchies' maintenance staffing model, job details and job family
- Worked with advance compensation like bonus, stock, and merit plans. Created a compensation matrix based on the time portion rules.
- Configured absence management including vacation, parental leave and other LOA type
- Developed inbound integration to bring in result to workday after payroll run in complete
- Implemented workday performance management including goal setting, mid-year, year-end, processes. Configured various notification to integration.
- Developing standard, advanced and custom report using report writer tool as per the user requirement. Involved in production support. involved in transferring data from SAP to Workday worked on Payroll complex reports, Payroll security, Payroll accesses.
- Developed both inbound and outbound EIB integration in various segment of workday system.
- Worked on Payroll web service like PICOF and PECI interfaces.
- Developed the custom reports using workday report writer tool and deploying it into workday tenant
- Create the integration and used XSLT code to transform XML data to safely deliver files using SFTP server. Though understanding in using in different APIs for connecting the third-party system
- Created various EIB integration using workday templates and engaged in validating and customizing BP's for integration. Build new custom report and modified existing project
- Understanding the client requirement and configured based on the requirement in the workday solution through the development of prototype system, and testing the workday solution
- Worked with implantation partner during the development and unit test for payroll integration.
- Worked with team to create Payroll, benefit plans, benefit groups, benefit eligibility rules as per the client requirement, added them into enrolment plans, and managed the enrolment rules.
- Developed asset life cycle, Income statement, balance sheet, trail balance related reports
- Build studio integration related workday project and time keeping project
- Created inbound Studio integrations to update external payroll deductions.
- Created new hire integration to pull the new hire information using core connectors
- Coordinating and supervising the daily activity of the work day HR system and acts as a primary point of contact to monitor. Handled time and labor rules for NA payroll.
- Design Business form layouts using Studio Reporting tool called BIRT.
- Working with different staffing models, defining hiring restriction to position, job and head count management. Worked on setting up stock plans and launched employee stock grants
- Supporting the queries from business users of UAT testing of integration/ report
- Ensured the client takes advantage of workday practice.
- Worked with Workday Studio to fix integration related issues.
- Created reports with workday reports writer and creating custom integration with third party application using workday cloud connect and Enterprise interface builder (EIB).
- Involved with implementation of Workday Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation.
- Set up Compensation Eligibility Rules based on compensation grades and job profiles.
- Worked with key stakeholders to confirm requirements, consider design alternatives, facilitate discussions and ultimately drive requirements sign-off.
- Observed the standards and procedures established by the project office and Track business needs during development phases in Business Life cycle.
- Performed Data configuration in Workday using Core Connectors.
- Maintained and supported all the HR Business processes e.g. Compensation, Hiring, Performance and talent management etc. implemented in Workday.
- Created various EIB integrations using Workday templates and engaged in validating and customizing Business Processes for Integrations.
- Worked on Inbound and Outbound Connectors to send the Employee Change details.
- Configured Workday's business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
- Worked on Production support of Workday HCM, which includes Core HR, Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll Modules related to User access to Workday system
- Developed several integration and functional reports to report out mass data from workday.
- Responsible for managing data migration from legacy systems to workday systems using iLoad and EIB.
- Designed and built both Inbound/Outbound EIB integrations in various segments of Workday system and worked with Core Connectors, Cloud Connector, Report Design, Data Conversions, iLoad's, XML, XSLT and SOAP web services, generated and developed Custom Reports, Advanced Reports as needed by the business.
- Developed several custom reports using Workday Report Writer and Workday Studio BIRT and modified workday Standard reports according to client requirements.
- Used Workday Report Writer, Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT), and worked on custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Core Connector and EIBs.
Confidential, Rochester, NY
Sr. Workday HCM Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Lead the workday integration of business processes across disparate systems.
- Lead HRIS resource for bi-annual as well as weekly Workday maintenance and upgrades configuring and UAT testing prior to go-live.
- Involved in full life cycle implementations, which includes Discovery Phase, Planning, Gap Analysis, Development, Testing, Reporting, Go-live and Post Go-live support of Workday modules (HCM - Benefits, Compensation, Talent Management) automation Kainos Work Smart.
- Worked with business partners to load mass data changes within Workday.
- Partner with other analysts to ensure accurate security and process configurations to ensure simple integrations run smoothly.
- Responsible for testing new features of Workday releases as they pertain to simple integrations, business processes, and security.
- Developing Complex Benefit Integrations, Custom reports associated with it and configuring new Benefit Plans in the Workday
- Worked on building the Workday integrations between Workday and vendor systems.
- Monitor the integrity of Workday ATS data & reporting through regular audits, troubleshooting irregularities, as well as partnering with the HRIS team to research, correct discrepancies, and ensure data reliability.
- Gathered requirements for integration and scoping out the list for the workday implementations.
- Worked on modules HR, Payroll, Benefits Created Technical design documentation for different customizations.
- Engaged in the updating of existing solution from older versions while in charge of integrating solution with code from partner Company and producing successful builds.
- Configuring and Maintaining the business process like Hiring an Employee, Changes like Position of the employee, compensation with the usage of different staffing models.
- Built integration with ADP to report out the historical data of withholding orders from Workday.
- Gathered and designed global and local requirements for Workday BPs for Core HR functionality including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, Termination, Reorganization, International Assignment, Time Tracking, etc based on the blueprint documentation.
- Documenting HR related documents such as blueprint documentation, project charter, statement of purpose (SOPs), etc. Configured changes to business processes in Workday based on change requests.
- Worked with Custom reports, Calculated fields, EIBs, Core Connector, Cloud Connector (CCB), BIRT, Report Design, Business form Layout, data conversions, Solutions and iLoads.
- Partnered with CIO and other stakeholders and governance team to evaluate current Workday security across all Workday Modules, and optimize the overall Workday security and configuration model.
- Involved in data transfer from tenants to SFTP, FTP Server, iLoads and Solution.
- Ensured compliance with SOX and liaised with internal control groups for annual testing as well as annual audit requests.
Confidential, Bannockburn, IL
Workday Consultant
Responsibilities:
- As a techno functional workday consultant, coordinated and supervised the daily activities of the Workday HR & Business Systems implementation and maintenance, and act as primary point of contact to monitor and triage production issues. Involved in business requirements gathering sessions, configure the Workday solution, configurations through the development of prototype systems, and testing the Workday solution.
- Involved in implementation and day to day support of global Workday HCM implementations for various HR/Finance modules such as Benefits, Payroll, Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence management, Performance, Recruiting, and Finance.
- Functional Expertise in setting up different modules in workday HCM- Recruiting, Benefits, Compensation, Advance Compensation, Absence, Time tracking. Finance- Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, Expense Reports, Projects.
- Primary duties include designing, customization, deploying Integrations using EIB, Core Connectors and Studio integrations to integrate with third party systems and to create Custom Reports for various functional areas like Compensation, HR, Benefits, Compensation, Finance and Payroll.
- Used EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) for integrating location of employees, Performance ratings, assigning organizations and updating payroll IDs.
- Created new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation which uses connector integrations XML Output as its data source input.
- Developed integrations using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound, Vanguard integrations and Taleo integration. Worked to fix integration related issues.
- Used delivered ETV/XTT functions from a Custom XSLT file to transform the content into a CSV file format.
- Used sequence generators, generating templates and validating inbound integration system results.
- Connect for third party payroll (PICOF) and Document Transformation. Configured payroll interface integration with ADP to send all employee changes and payroll related information necessary to run payroll on-cycle and ad-hoc.
- Developed different custom reports including matrix reports, advanced reports, composite reports on various modules, which includes Compensation, Benefits, Core HR, Finance, Payroll and other modules.
- Worked on custom report writing: Advanced report, Filters, Sub filters, Columns, Prompts and scheduling reports.
- Created Performance Review and absence letters template using complex WD Studio BIRT Report designer.
- Assist in development of new reports for ongoing customer needs and conversion of SAP, PeopleSoft reports to workday reports during conversion.
- Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties Review and development of high-level technical designs for conversion programs. Involved in Data Conversion, Workday BP Configuration.
- Managed client and external vendor relationships and guided them through facilitated integration design sessions and configuration decisions based on best practices and understanding the customer’s unique requirements for all stages of the project.
- Implemented Workday Support methodologies, using it consistently on all projects and accounts.
- Worked on auto process of pulling data from to workday and feed into tableau using Workday report writer.
- Worked on Validating and loading data into different Workday tenants such as implementation, Gold and Production tenants.
- Created detailed data mapping document for integrating various systems with Workday.
- Used the sandbox for testing and migrated the code to the deployment instance after testing.
- Worked closely with Workday team to provide support for all questions, troubleshooting and maintenance Integrations and reporting.
- Involved in supporting of test planning execution, developing test case scenarios, data validation, data transfer, Parallel testing for HR.
