Workday Integration Consultant and HRIS Specialist

Sai Prakash

Workday Integration Consultant

Oklahoma, United States — +1-469-***-**** — **************@*****.*** — LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sai-prakash-g-wd Professional Summary

Workday integration and HRIS professional with five years of experience delivering Workday tenant integrations, business process support, reporting, and security controls. Hands-on experience designing and operating EIB and API-based integrations, building calculated fields and advanced reports, troubleshooting integration failures, and implementing audit-conscious validation controls. Proven ability to collaborate with HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors to translate business requirements into Workday configurations, integration specifications, and testable deliverables. Familiar with ITIL change management practices, SOX-style controls, and practical use of generative AI tools to automate repetitive tasks and improve data quality. Prepared to support a regulated-industry client in Tulsa, providing integration reliability, reporting accuracy, and production stabilization. Technical Skills

Workday Functional Modules &

Administration

: Workday HCM, Business Process Configuration, Organizational Management, Onboarding and Employee Lifecycle, Absence Management (basic support), Workday Reporting

(Advanced and Composite Reports)

Workday Integrations & Technical

Tools

: Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST), API Integrations and JSON/XML, Core Connectors and Studio (familiar), XSLT 3.0 for transformations, Postman, SFTP, Integration Monitoring

Reporting, Data & Analytics : Workday Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Composite and Matrix Reports, Data Mapping and Reconciliation, Power BI (dashboarding), Advanced Excel (Power Query, PivotTables) Security, Governance & Change

Control

: Security Groups and Domain Security Policies, Business Process Security Policies, Access Reviews and Role Management, Audit Controls and SOX-style Compliance, ITIL-aligned Change Management

Testing, Delivery & Support : Requirements Gathering and Fit-Gap Analysis, Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, Regression Testing, Defect Tracking and Root-Cause Analysis, Post-Implementation Support and Runbook Development, Stakeholder Communication and Vendor Coordination AI & Automation : Generative AI for process automation, Prompt engineering basics, Automation of monitoring and reporting workflows

Work Experience

Workday Integration Consultant January 2024 - Present Deloitte

– Led end-to-end design and deployment of Workday HCM integrations using EIB and API-based connectors, defining transformation logic and validation rules to preserve data integrity across connected systems and improve processing reliability for HR and finance teams.

– Architected integration workflows that combined XML and JSON transformation mapping with XSLT and API calls, producing reusable templates and reducing development rework across projects while standardizing error handling and logging mechanisms for operations.

– Translated stakeholder business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications, coordinating with HR, Finance, and vendor teams to align integration behavior with business processes and compliance needs and ensuring traceable requirements coverage.

– Implemented integration monitoring, structured error-handling, and automated alerting processes to surface failures quickly and support timely remediation by technical and functional teams while maintaining audit evidence for change records.

– Developed and maintained Workday reports including advanced, composite, and matrix reports with calculated fields to provide HR leadership with accurate headcount, compensation, and onboarding metrics and support data-driven decision making.

– Executed unit testing, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and regression test plans for integration and configuration changes, documenting defects and validating fixes before production promotion to preserve service continuity.

– Operated tenant change control practices aligned with ITIL, preparing change records, release notes, and test evidence to satisfy audit and SOX-style control requirements during deployments and coordinating approval workflows with stakeholders.

– Established data reconciliation procedures and validation checks between Workday and downstream finance or payroll systems to ensure consistent master data and reduce post-production corrections while documenting reconciliation outcomes for auditors.

– Collaborated with security administrators to configure security groups and domain security policies, supporting access reviews and ensuring segregation of duties for sensitive HR processes and protecting confidential employee data.

– Applied generative AI tooling to automate routine data-quality checks and generate templated integration mapping suggestions, improving developer throughput and reducing manual effort while preserving governance and review controls.

– Produced integration technical specifications, transformation documentation, comprehensive testing artifacts, and operational runbooks to enable repeatable operational support, streamline vendor handoffs, and ensure consistent knowledge transfer across teams.

– Partnered with HR stakeholders and external vendors to troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate corrective actions to restore normal processing quickly while communicating status and resolution steps to leadership.

HRIS Integration Analyst September 2020 - March 2023 IBM

– Supported Workday HCM integration delivery by gathering requirements, preparing detailed data mappings, configuring interfaces, and validating transformation logic with business owners and technical teams to ensure accurate data exchanges.

– Assisted in building and validating API and EIB integrations connecting Workday to payroll and benefits systems, focusing on data validation, error handling, secure transport mechanisms, and compliance with vendor specifications.

– Prepared and executed unit test plans and UAT scripts for integration components, documenting test outcomes, tracking defects, and collaborating with developers to verify corrective actions prior to production cuts.

– Created Workday reports and Excel dashboards combining report outputs and reconciliation queries to highlight integration performance, exception volumes, and data-quality trends for HR stakeholders and support teams.

– Performed root-cause analysis on recurring integration failures by tracing data flows, reviewing transformation rules, and liaising with source-system owners to remediate upstream data issues and prevent repeat incidents.

– Maintained integration configuration records, mapping documentation, and runbooks to support production stability and accelerate knowledge transfer across support teams and third-party vendors while ensuring documentation accuracy.

– Implemented reconciliation controls and exception management workflows that improved data consistency across HR systems and reduced manual intervention during payroll cycles through defined correction procedures.

– Participated in tenant upgrade and enhancement activities, assessing impacts to integrations, updating regression test suites, and coordinating deployment tasks with release managers to preserve integration continuity.

– Supported access and audit requirements by documenting security roles, assisting with access reviews, and ensuring integration credentials and transports met governance expectations and secure configuration standards.

– Collaborated with HR process owners to refine business process steps in Workday and ensure integration timing aligned with onboarding, job changes, and terminations to maintain correct employee lifecycle processing.

– Identified opportunities for automation of repetitive support tasks through scripting and process improvements, increasing team efficiency and reducing mean time to recovery for common integration incidents and exceptions.

– Provided hands-on support for production incidents, coordinating data fixes, reprocessing of failed transactions, and communicating status updates to HR and IT leadership while maintaining incident logs and resolution documentation. Key Contributions

– Integration Performance — Reduced Workday integration processing time by designing scalable workflows, optimizing data transformations, and coordinating system changes to improve processing efficiency.

– Monitoring Automation — Automated integration monitoring and reporting activities by implementing scripts and dashboards that decreased manual effort and improved issue detection speed.

– Data Integrity Controls — Strengthened Workday data integrity via reconciliation procedures, validation checks, exception workflows, and documented audit controls to ensure reliable production data. Education

Saint Peter's University

Master's Degree

Certifications

– Workday HCM Certification

– Workday Integration Certification

– Certified Integration Professional (CIP)

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