Senior Workday HCM Integration Consultant

Harish Darapaneni

Santa Clara, CA · 669-***-**** · ***************@*****.*** · linkedin.com/in/hari-darapaneni-53292816a Professional Summary

Senior Workday Integration and HCM Consultant with 5 years of enterprise Workday delivery experience across healthcare, pharmaceutical, payroll services, construction, and technology sectors. Primary expertise in Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) inbound/outbound integrations and Core Connectors — with 50+ production integrations deployed — supported by Workday Studio development, XSLT, SOAP Web Services, and REST APIs. Deep HCM functional configuration expertise spanning Core HCM, Supervisory Organizations, Business Process Framework

(BPF), Benefits Administration, Payroll, Compensation, Time Tracking, and Absence Management. Proven delivery of HIPAA-compliant healthcare implementations and full-lifecycle Workday deployments supporting workforce populations exceeding 80,000 employees across regulated environments. Professional Experience

Cipla USA

Senior Workday Implementation Engineer Mar 2026 – Present

• Architected 20+ EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) inbound and outbound integrations connecting SAP, Oracle Financials, and 8 third-party benefits vendors to Workday HCM, eliminating 40+ hours of manual data reconciliation weekly across Cipla’s North America HR operations.

• Configured Core Connectors and Cloud Connect for Benefits (CCB) to automate enrollment data transmission to insurance carriers, processing 3,000+ employee benefit elections per open enrollment cycle with zero manual touchpoints.

• Configured Payroll Effective Change Interface (PECI) outbound integrations to automate payroll data exchange with third-party vendors, ensuring compliance across multi-state jurisdictions and reducing manual reconciliation effort by 25%.

• Built Business Process Framework (BPF) hire-to-retire workflows – Hire, Change Job, Termination, Compensation Change – with Condition Rules, multi-tier approval chains, and automated notifications across 8 distinct Supervisory Organization hierarchies in a regulated pharmaceutical tenant.

• Designed Domain Security Policies, role-based and user-based Security Groups, and Integration Security configurations for 500+ user roles, achieving SOX and GxP compliance across Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll, and Compensation modules at go-live.

• Developed BIRT analytics and Advanced Reports using Calculated Fields (Lookup Related Value, Evaluate Expression) for HR and Finance leadership, delivering real-time workforce KPIs and reducing payroll reporting cycles by 3 business days per period.

• Implemented Workday Studio integration with bi-directional SAP data feed using XSLT transformations and SOAP Web Services, synchronizing Core HCM employee master data for 3,000+ workers on an automated nightly schedule.

• Designed and deployed Workday Orchestrate workflows to automate multi-system integration sequences, enabling error handling and scheduling across SAP, Oracle Financials, and benefits vendors. Turner Construction USA

Workday Engineer Nov 2025 – Feb 2026

• Deployed 15+ EIB inbound data loads migrating 8 years of historical employee records, benefits elections, and compensation data into Workday with 99.7-point accuracy across 200,000+ records within a 3-week data conversion window.

• Engineered Core Connector payroll integrations and PECI outbound feeds for multi-state processing across 35 states, bringing all jurisdictions into full federal and state labor law compliance for 10,000+ employees before cutover.

• Configured Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management for a project-based workforce, automating timesheet approvals via Business Process Framework (BPF) and extracting labor data via EIB outbound files for downstream Kronos reconciliation.

• Authored 20+ Advanced Reports and Matrix Reports with Calculated Fields and RaaS (Report as a Service) endpoints, furnishing project managers with real-time labor cost visibility across 200+ active sites and reclaiming 15+ hours of manual reporting monthly.

Paychex USA

Workday Developer Apr 2025 – Nov 2025

• Built and scheduled 30+ EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) inbound and outbound integrations for Paychex’s enterprise client portfolio, automating benefits enrollment data exchange with 12 insurance carriers and processing 50,000+ enrollment records monthly with zero manual intervention.

• Configured Core Connectors and Document Transformation (DT) pipelines within Workday Integration System (ISU) to automate payroll and benefits data flows between Workday and downstream HCM platforms across 25+ client tenants.

• Developed Workday Studio integrations using XSLT transformations, SOAP, and REST APIs for complex multi-system data orchestration, synchronizing employee lifecycle data across Paychex’s HRIS ecosystem and third-party payroll vendors.

• Resolved 45+ EIB and Core Connector integration failures via WSDL and Workday Web Services (WWS) debugging, cutting mean time-to-recovery from 12 hours to under 2 hours and restoring SLA compliance for 8 enterprise clients.

Optum India

Workday Integration Consultant Jan 2021 – Apr 2023

• Led delivery of 25+ EIB and Core Connector integrations for Optum’s healthcare HR technology ecosystem, connecting Workday HCM to Oracle Financials, ADP, and ServiceNow – eliminating 60+ hours of manual weekly processing for an 80,000-employee healthcare workforce spanning clinical, provider, and administrative populations.

• Constructed HIPAA-compliant EIB outbound pipelines and PECI/PICOF payroll connector configurations for automated benefits and payroll data exchange with third-party healthcare benefits administrators across 15 clinical and administrative divisions.

• Configured Core HCM module – Supervisory Organizations, Staffing Models, Business Processes (BP), Effective Dating, and Compensation Grades – for Optum’s India and APAC healthcare workforce of 20,000+ employees, including Provider, Clinical Staff, and Administrative role populations.

• Designed Domain Security Policies and Business Process Security groups for HIPAA-regulated workflows, achieving HIPAA Security Rule compliance across Workday HCM, Benefits Administration, and Payroll modules for 80,000+ employee records.

• Delivered Advanced Report Writer dashboards and Matrix Reports using Calculated Fields for Optum’s healthcare workforce analytics team, surfacing real-time turnover, staffing, and compliance KPIs across 15 clinical operating divisions.

Dell Technologies India

Workday HCM Consultant Jun 2019 – Dec 2020

• Accelerated Dell Technologies’ global Workday HCM deployment across 12 countries via EIB inbound/outbound load templates, migrating 50,000+ employee records, compensation histories, and benefits elections during post-merger HR system consolidation.

• Configured Core HCM business processes – Hire, Transfer, Termination, Compensation Change – and Supervisory Organization hierarchies for 165,000+ global employees, maintaining Effective Dating and Staffing Model integrity across all tenant configurations.

• Built Workday Report Writer dashboards and Calculated Fields reports for Talent Acquisition leadership, providing hiring pipeline analytics across 15 global business units and reducing report-generation lead time from 3 days to same-day delivery.

Technical Skills

Integration – Primary: EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder) Inbound/Outbound, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect for Benefits (CCB), PECI, PICOF, Document Transformation (DT), RaaS (Report as a Service), Workday Web Services (WWS), SOAP, REST APIs, WSDL, XML, XSLT, JSON Integration – Advanced: Workday Studio, Assembly, ETV (Evaluate-Transform-Validate), Workday Integration System (ISU), Workday Orchestrate, Workday Extend, API Management, Custom Objects HCM Modules: Core HCM, Supervisory Organizations, Staffing Models, Benefits Administration, Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence Management

Reporting & Analytics: Advanced Report Writer, BIRT Reports, Matrix Reports, Composite Reports, Trending Reports, nBox, Calculated Fields (Lookup Related Value, Evaluate Expression, True/False), Dashboards, Worklets Security & Configuration: Business Process Framework (BPF), Domain Security Policies, Security Groups

(Role-Based, User-Based), Integration Security, Business Process Security, Condition Rules, Object Transporter

(OX), R1/R2 Release Management, Sandbox Testing

Tools & Methodology: Java, Python, SQL, Git, JIRA, Postman, Agile Scrum Education

Indiana Wesleyan University USA

Master of Science in Management – Data Analytics Jun 2023 – Dec 2024 St Mary’s Group of Institutions India

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Jun 2015 – May 2019

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