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Joseph ceelam - Workday Integration Lead 20yrs exp

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Relocation: Bentonville, AR

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YOJAN HR Transformation Lead Bentonville,AR SUMMARY Visionary technology leader with a customer-first, product-led mindset and strong business acumen, driving HR transformation strategy through cloud adoption and legacy system modernization. Combines deep HR domain expertise with technical proficiency to streamline HR operations, enhance data-driven decision-making, and deliver seamless integration solutions that improve efficiency and customer experience. EXPERIENCE HR Transformation Lead | Senior Software Engineer | SME Walmart 02/2022 - Present Bentonville, United States Full Time As the Core HR Point of Contact, spearheaded the Workday-to-SAP Payroll integration on GCP/Hudi Cloud Platform, ensuring seamless data synchronization and flawless HR data accuracy. Conducted comprehensive payroll comparative analysis, data mining, UAT, and production support designing interim solutions while developing long-term system improvements and performing root cause analysis (RCA). Developed analytics dashboards to automate cross-platform reconciliation (Infor, Workday, GCP Hudi), boosting data accuracy, reducing manual work, and unlocking insights. Authored comprehensive operational run books to standardize support processes, ensuring compliance with data security policies and reducing incident resolution time. Primary HR Systems contact for compliance audits, data requests/purges, and SOX Controls collaborating with e-discovery team, Ethics & Compliance HR and Legal teams. As the Subject-Matter Expert (SME) for the Core HR Data Asset initiative, I led product specification development, data mapping, and integration catalog design for the Unified Profile program. This effort accelerated client onboarding and established global data standardization. As Workstream Lead, drove the US,CA Job Pay Modernization initiatives by owning the Core HR Workstream architecting HRDW integrations, streamlining data flows, and ensuring compliance across development, testing, and deployment. SKILLS HRIS System / HRIS Integrations Expertise Workday HCM, SuccessFactors Employee Central, PeopleSoft(Legacy), SAP HR, Infor Lawson, Infor Payroll Domain / Product Expertise Deep expertise in HCM, Compensation, Absence, Onboarding and Recruiting, Hire-To-Retire functional workflows, events and HR data Workday Integrations WWS, Worker API, RaaS, EIB, XSLT, PECI, Cloud Connector, Familiar on : Studio Cloud Platform GCP Architecture, Google BigQuery, GCS, Looker BI, bash, Familiar on : Apache Hudi, gCloud CLI, PySpark, Dataproc, DAG, IAM Mainframe Technologies COBOL, JCL, CICS, DFSORT, SyncSort, REXX, EasyTrieve+, PeopleSoft SQR, Micro Focus COBOL/Visual COBOL CA-7, CA Endevor, ChangeMan, BMC Control-M, XPeditor, Micro Focus COBOL Server, Familiar on: Microfocus EA, IBM Application Discovery Web Programming SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, HR-XML, JS, ASP.Net, VB.Net Data Platforms SQL Programming, DB2 for Z/OS, DB2 UDB, Teradata, Google BigQuery, GCS, MS SQLServer, VSAM, IDMS, Familiar on : Azure COSMOS DB, Azure SQL, Apache Hudi Project Methodologies, Tools & Standards Agile & Scrum, CMMI, Six Sigma, Jira, Clarity Workbench, HP ALM, MS Project, devOPS, CI/CD best practises Data Governance & Compliance Anonymity, SOX Controls, GDPR, PII, EEOC, PCI Scripting bash, Unix Shell, Teradata Scripting, AIX Scripting Tools - Development & Operations IBM Infosphere Datastage, IBM MQSeries, IBM WTX, SQLServerTools, SSIS, Visual Studio, VSCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse, SOAPUI, Postman, Mongo Compass, Apache Airflow, Kafka EXPERIENCE Senior Technical Expert | Project Lead Walmart (Infosys Consultant) 11/2016 - 01/2022 Bentonville, United States As, an IT Consultant from Infosys Technologies Ltd. Designed end-to-end Workday HRIS integrations for 10+ downstream systems (HR Data Warehouse, Azure SQL, Infor Payroll, MIM, Sedgwick) implementing both real-time and batch data pipelines to enable seamless data flows. Served as Subject-Matter Expert (SME) liaison between business stakeholders, program leadership, and functional teams - facilitating cross-functional collaboration to drive alignment and successful project execution. Owned essential artifacts like Business or Functional Mapping , Integration Design Documentations. For the SAP HCM HR Optimization (HRO) initiative, As a consultant company behalf, led global RFP processes, transformed hire-to-retire workflows (current & future state analysis) across international markets, and provided technical system assessments/estimations. Designed. Implemented Pipelines from SAP HR to Data Service Layer/MDM Repository via HR-XML, ensuring real-time and batch data synchronization across enterprise applications for UK and China HRO implementations. Led a team of 25+ (Senior developers, analysts, testers) and managed third-party vendors to ensure on-time delivery as part of Onshore-Offshore delivery model. Led project planning (WBS), execution tracking, milestone reporting, and onsite coordination, measured through defined performance metrics. Major Project Initiatives Description Workday HRIS Implementation (Multiple Phases for HO, Retail, Supply Chain and Manufacturing Business Segments) Workday was deployed as the new HR platform migrated from Lawson, SMART and DC TnA. SAP HR Implementation for UK & China Workforce SAP HRIS was deployed as the new enterprise-wide HCM platform for UK and China Markets. Technology Lead Walmart (Infosys Consultant) 02/2012 - 10/2016 Bentonville, United States As a Consultant - From Infosys Technologies Ltd Analyzed point solutions across diverse markets, localization requirements and Conceptualized and architected end-to-end data solutions for expanded HRDW for both operational and analytical models. Designed HR catalogs, optimized data models, and delivered PoC for DB2(operational)-Teradata(analytical) integrations. Designed and Integrated HRDW with SuccessFactors LMS across 10 markets, enabling batch EDF data flows to support global learning/performance systems via foundational and expanded HRDW architecture. Led a team of 15+ (Senior developers, analysts, testers) entire SDLC Coverage. STRENGTHS People Customer Experience, Cross- Functional Influence, Culture & Engagement Domain Expertise Business Analysis, Functional Mappings, Product Design, Workflows, Business Objects SDLC Coverage End to End Technology and Engineering application development (SDLC) ownership HR Transformation Strategic Vision,Process Optimization, Data Driven, Team Collaboration, Operational Excellence Data & Solution Architecture Data Analysis, Data Governance, Data Compliance Legacy Modernization Assessments, Strategic re-engineering and re-architecting, Decision Factors Outbound Integration Specialization Integration Platforms (API, Middleware, ETL, Pub/Sub), Transformation & Mappings, Hybrid Integration Patterns (Cloud, legacy), HRIS platforms (Workday/SAP), and cloud services (GCP/Hudi). Project Management Planning, Team Motivation, Problem Solving, Communication, Hands-On Technical Leadership, EDUCATION Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati 2001 INTERESTS AI & LLM Models Business Strategy Industry Trends EXPERIENCE Senior Technology Analyst Walmart (Infosys Consultant) 12/2007 - 01/2012 Bentonville, United States As a Consultant - From Infosys Technologies Ltd Successfully led the end-to-end migration from Legacy PeopleSoft HR System to Lawson HRIS in phased migration approach. Evaluated PeopleSoft downstream impacts, then architected and implemented Lawson-to-HRDW integration pipelines with end-to-end data propagation for 30+ critical applications including Infor Payroll, HRDW, Finance, and Retail Link. Led a team of 15+ (developers, analysts, testers) and managed third-party vendors to ensure on-time delivery. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE Asst Professor / Lecturer PBRVITS_Official 2001 - 2003 Engineering College, Computer Science Department Major Project Initiatives Description PeopleSoft To Lawson Migration ( Two Major Rollout Cycles) This initiative focused on migrating the Client s HR processes from PeopleSoft to Lawson, targeting entire workforce comprising Home Office (HO) and Field and Supply Chain populations. PeopleSoft Sunset - Interfaces Converted legacy PeopleSoft interfaces to LAWSON- compatible solutions post-migration to reduce operational costs and simplify support Applications Programmer | Programmer Analyst Infosys 01/2004 - 11/2007 Plano, United States, Chennai, India Client : JCPenney Inc As an application programmer, in mainframe technologies specializing in Payment/Credit Systems (Visa, MC, Amex, Discover, JCP). Developed and supported existing workflows and compliance-focused system enhancements. As a Web developer who developed and supported chargeback systems and built a new ECS (Error Correction System) portal, improving payment dispute resolution, fraud compliance, and risk operations dashboards using .Net Technologies. As an Onsite Operations Analyst, Delivered 24/7 L1-L3 support for critical Finance, Stock Ledger, and Credit Maintenance systems, ensuring high availability and performance. Major Project Initiatives Description Operational Support - Center Of Excellence Production Support for Client's Operational Excellence Platform JCP Credit Maintenance Various Credit Card System Maintenace and enhancements as part of compliance and operational enhancements. Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment artificial intelligence javascript business intelligence database zos information technology hewlett packard microsoft Arkansas California