Professional Summary
Integration Architect with *5 years of professional experience in IT in the areas of Cloud Integrations for Workday and Salesforce, implementing integration solutions using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Experience in all phases of the Workday implementation lifecycle namely – Requirement gathering, Analysis, Architect/Design, Development and Testing.
Workday Certified integration consultant and expertise in Workday studio integrations.
Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework.
6.5 Years of hands on experience in Workday Implementations and completed more than 25+ Workday implementation projects across globally.
Expertise in SaaS and PaaS model and cloud architecture, Solutions Architecture experience with IBM Bluemix, Oracle Service Bus (OSB), IBM DataPower, IBM MQ series, IBM Message Broker, IBM Cast Iron cloud integrator.
Industry experience in the Finance/Payments, Human Capital Management (HCM) and Banking sectors
Hands-on design develops and integrate expertise creating production-strength applications based on wide variety of modern technologies including cloud integration tools (IBM Cast Iron and force.com) and expertise in IBM DataPower XI50/IBM API Manager.
Experienced in technologies Oracle SOA 10G/11G, BPEL/ESB/BAM, OSB 10GR3/11G, ALSB 3.0, BEA WebLogic, JMS, Websphere MQ, JDevelpers, IBM DataPower, C#. Net, ASP.Net and MS SQL Server
Quick adaptability to the new technologies and expertise on major products like Microsoft (.Net), Oracle (Oracle SOA Suite) and various IBM products (DataPower, Cast Iron, Cloud, APIM etc.).
Good Problem solving, Client Interaction, training and team building skills.
Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
Excellent analytical and logical programming skills with a good understanding at the conceptual level.
Excellent interpersonal skills with a strong desire to achieve specified goals.
Professional Experience
Workday Integration Architect – IBM Corporation, Plano, TX 10/2015 – Present
Roles & Responsibilities:
Architect and design Integration solution that satisfies the customer’s special needs.
Conduct design architect reviews, gap analysis and assessment when required
Work with customer and coordinate integration deliverables along with all vendors and stakeholders.
Architect and design Workday integrations: Understand client business requirements, configure the Workday solution, demonstrate the configurations through the development of prototype systems, Built Workday Benefit Interfaces to many of the benefit providers and assist the client in testing the Workday solutions.
Managed timely completion of all integration efforts and advised clients on various architectural decisions.
Coordinated activities across the vendors and consistently meeting budgets, time constraints, and milestones.
Build data mapping, provide the means of system integration by considering the target as well as the source
Participated in requirements gathering and design sessions.
Designed and built integrations to multiple third-party vendors.
Provide guidance to clients / service partners on integration strategies. Develop a working strategy, complete required paperwork, and submit weekly status reports to the higher authorities
Involved in end to end implementation of integrations and directly work with all the shareholders involved in this project.
Maintain an efficient technical environment for all client services and document all architectural plans and provide support to all business and assemble all system components
Responsible for Design, Solution, Customization, Integrations (with Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework)
Senior Workday Consultant – IBM India, Bangalore, KA 05/2013 – 09/2015
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyzed client's HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and supported development of new business processes and a future state design.
Responsible for building integrations which send non-secure data to consuming applications within the company via DIME (ETL application).
Integrated Workday systems - building custom integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation.
Participate in the discovery sessions with client and vendors, create the design and mapping documents and submit the same for sign off.
Creating the new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams
Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues
Involved in the design phase and prototyping for further discussions with the client.
Experienced to work with Workday Report Writer and creating custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).
Created and used calculated fields in reporting, business processes, integrations and other areas within Workday. Involved in Data Conversion, Workday BP Configuration
Application Architect/Project Manager – IBM India, Bangalore, KA 07/2012 – 05/2013
Roles & Responsibilities:
Used Agile Scrum Methodology to ensure high quality software delivery in monthly and quarterly releases
Conduct a weekly change management call to review all changes and ensure all stakeholders are involved and aware of the change process
Provided Senior Level Management guidance to Application Architecture such as new cutting-edge File Transfer Protocols; Managed and coordinated staff in support of Production Batch
Defined application architecture and data model to support scaling to any business vertical
Authored several hundred pages of documentation on application requirements, architecture, user interface specifications, use cases and application logic flowcharts
Effectively function and communicate within a software development team consisting of developers, quality assurance, and project management members and Perform employee development and guidance activities to include performance evaluation and training plans.
Technical Lead/SOA Architect – Dell International Services, Bangalore, KA 08/2008 – 07/2012
Roles & Responsibilities:
Defined the SOA vision and directed its initiative from requirements gathering and architecture specifications to implementation of services, achieving lower software development and management costs through cross-platform (Java/ASP.NET/SharePoint) service re-use.
Introduced new technologies and best practices into the software architecture and development standards, leading to more a robust and scalable platform that decreased the development time and produced high-quality end products.
Demonstrated effective communication skills and abilities to establish close working relationships with various project teams and internal managers through on-going interaction and collaboration.
Implemented and integrated OSB (Oracle Service Bus) projects with Different Financing Vendor/Clients. Accomplished 100% of delivery goals and time tables for all assigned work products.
Designed and developed Proxy services, Business services, and Message flows at OSB layer and implemented IBM Data Power XI50 and handled all the challenges to migrating business services from OSB to Data Power
Maintain and document SOA Suite 11g, WebLogic Server 11g, and OSB 11g on development and test environments
Senior Software Engineer – Accenture, Bangalore, KA 08/2007 – 04/2008
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems.
Provided business analysis support and technical support and guidance to customers. Produce detailed specifications and writing the program codes.
Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
Software Development Sr. Analyst – HBI Software (P) Ltd, Bangalore, KA 07/2005 – 08/2007
Roles & Responsibilities:
Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues. Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.
Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner with no assistance from the supervisor Working closely with upper management.
Design and develop programming systems making specific determinations about system performance. Responding promptly and professionally to bug reports.
Senior Software Engineer – 4Ways Creative and Innovating, Bangalore, KA 10/2004 – 06/2005
Roles & Responsibilities:
Tests new programs to ensure that logic and syntax are correct, and that program results are accurate; assists lower-level programmers with programming assignments.
Document code consistently throughout the development process by listing a description of the program, special instructions, and any changes made in database tables on procedural, modular and database level.
Search, summarize and keep the team abreast of strategic information from all sources Maintain client databases
Publications/Books
Workday Integration Architect Beginners Guide 2019
Workday Integration Plan & Discovery Guide 2019
Salesforce_Integration_GuideV0.1
Testing Cast Iron Apps using HTTP POST Tools
API Security Implementaions.doc API Security Overview
API To Salesforce Integration Guide
Tools and Templates
Workday DELTA (Data Extraction, Load, Transform, and Accelerate) Migration Tool
Workday Cloud Connect Tool
Workday Integration Visualization Tool
Education
Master of Science, Information Technology July 2003
Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) July 2001
Technical Experience
SaaS: Workday, Salesforce, NetSuite, Kenexa
Workday: Workday integration and reporting, Workday Studio, Reports - Advance, Trending and Composite, Calculated Fields, EIB, CCB, XSLT, RaaS, SOAP, REST, OX, Workday Web Services, Business Processes, Business Objects, Workday Security, OAuth 2.0, External API, Java Beans, WSDL, XML
Cloud Integration tools: IBM Cast Iron Studio (AppConnect), Workday Studio, IBM API Manager, IBM Data Studio, and IBM Web Sphere DataPower Cast Iron Appliance XH40
PaaS Platforms: IBM Bluemix, Force.com
RDBMS: Oracle 10i, MS-SQL Server 6.5/7.0, MS Access 2000
Languages: Visual C#.Net, Java, Visual Basic.Net, C, C++.
SOA/EAI/ESB Technologies: BEA Aqua logic SOA Toolset (ALBPM, ALSB, ALDSP, WLI, WLS), Oracle Fusion SOA Toolset (BPEL Process Manager/Designer), IBM MQ Series, EJB, POJO, JMS, Oracle OSB 11g.
Technologies: Data and Web Services, HTML, XML, XSD, JAXB, WSDL, SOAP, HTTP, HTTPS, XSLT, XPATH, and XQuery.
Development Tools: Eclipse, JDeveloper, Web Sphere Application Developer WSAD, IBM RAD and Rational Software Architect
Application Servers: Oracle, WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache
Architectural Design: IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA), IBM Unified Method Framework (UMF), IBM Global Solution Delivery Framework
Workday Certifications
Workday Integration Certification
Workday Lifecycle Deployment Program (LDP)
Workday Studio.
Other Certifications and Training
Certified Oracle SOA Architect
Certified on Microsoft certified professional developer (MCPD)