Every run is a heartbeat. A missed one means someone's pay, benefits or 401(k) is wrong, so I don't stop at a workaround.
<xsl:template match="wd:Worker">
<Record id="{wd:Employee_ID}">
<Plan>{wd:Benefit_Plan}</Plan>
</xsl:template>
Studio, EIB, XSLT, PECI and 834 files. I know the tools down to the line of code.
16 years of Workday integrations. I've seen most failures before, so fixes come faster.
16 years building, fixing and supporting Workday integrations. Studio, EIB, Cloud Connect, PECI and PICOF. I help Workday customers spend less time and money keeping their integrations running.
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Passion
Pay, benefits, retirement. I treat each integration that way, and I don't stop at a workaround.
Knowledge
Studio, EIB, Cloud Connect, PECI, PICOF, BIRT, SOAP and REST. Former Workday Partner Product Lead for Studio and Cloud Connect for Benefits.
Experience
16 years in Workday and 30+ in enterprise software. 20+ Workday customers, payroll for 56 countries, and teams of 100+ integrations delivered.
Services
Four ways to work together. Most clients start with one problem and stay for support.
Designed, built, tested and handed over with a design document.
Best for a new vendor, a new country, or a new process.
Runs that fail, finish with warnings, or send data the vendor rejects.
Best for a run that fails, warns, or gets rejected.
Know what breaks before it breaks.
Best for a Workday release, a merger, or a tenant move.
A set block of hours each month for the integrations you already run.
Best for teams without an integration specialist on staff.
What's breaking?
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Connections
From global payroll to the smallest benefits carrier. Wherever a wrong record means a wrong paycheck or a missed deduction.
Files & standards
Transport
Security
Results
Problems I've been handed, and how they ended. Client names left out on purpose.
> need: payroll feeds for 56 countries
Led the integration team through a phased build on Workday's Payroll Interface (PICOF), alongside 100+ other integrations.
✓ 100+ integrations delivered in phases
> uk payslips arrive by post
Built a payslip import that loads each PDF payslip into Workday.
✓ Employees see payslips in Workday
> rehire_date is in the future
Traced the record through the live integration to the root cause.
✓ Root cause found and fix agreed
> need: census out, savings data back
Built bi-directional integrations with Schwab for retirement savings.
✓ Data flows both ways
> need: timekeeping for US and Canada
Architected and built the integrations with UKG Timekeeping for US and Canadian team members.
✓ Both countries live
> live carrier feed with known defects
Found and fixed the defects in the live Sun Life integration.
✓ Fixed in production
> merger: two companies, one payroll
Supported the Dayforce payroll integration through a multi-company merger and migrated worker data into Workday.
✓ Worker data in one Workday
> need: ACH + ADP tax for Canada
Designed and built ACH and ADP tax integrations that run on their own after payroll settlement and deliver to SFTP.
✓ Hands-off after settlement
> 834 template deprecated
Moved benefit integrations from a deprecated template to the generic ANSI X12 834 template.
✓ On the supported template
> need: statements for every worker
A Studio integration calls BIRT to build bonus, stock and merit statements and loads each one to the worker's documents.
✓ No manual uploads
> timecards start empty every week
A boomerang integration pre-populates next week's timecards from Workday data.
✓ Less time entry for employees
> new hires keyed in twice
Built integrations, from discovery to deploy, that create hires in Workday from Greenhouse and Enboarder.
✓ No re-keying of new hires
> need: payment file for the bank
Built the Positive Pay integration with PNC.
✓ Payments checked by the bank
> need: one hub for 70 downstream systems
Led the team that fed a central data hub from Workday, which in turn feeds 70 downstream systems, plus payroll interfaces for the UK, Germany and Belgium.
✓ One source, 70 systems
> need: 50+ integrations for a pilot
Led the consultants delivering 50+ integrations for a healthcare Phase 1 pilot: Lawson payroll, benefits, several SSO providers and E-Verify.
✓ 50+ integrations live
> 150 integrations in production
Troubleshot production issues, ran release impact analysis twice a year, and put Studio builds under version control.
✓ Issues resolved, releases covered
> workday release twice a year
Set up a Workday release-testing process with impact analysis across all integrations.
✓ Adopted globally
In their words
From recommendations on LinkedIn.
Bharat consistently demonstrated deep technical expertise, efficiency, and reliability. What truly sets Bharat apart is his ability to navigate complex challenges with a solution-oriented mindset … always delivering on time, communicating transparently, and ensuring smooth execution.
Bharat is one of the few who created a very positive impression! … he is so passionate about Workday! … At Sanofi, he made key contributions in delivering many Workday related initiatives.
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Approach
No mystery. Here's how an engagement runs, and what you get at each step.
A 30-minute call about what's breaking or what you need. Then I get the access I need, and nothing more.
You getA plain read of what's likely wrong, and what it will take.
I read what's actually running in your tenant: the integration, its reports and the business processes around it. Not old documents.
You getWritten findings, including when the cause is configuration and not the integration.
I fix it in a sandbox and test it with masked data against a written test plan, before anything reaches production.
You getThe test cases and their results.
We move it to production together, and I watch the first runs.
You getA design document and a decision log your team keeps.
I'll tell you what I find, even when it isn't the integration.
If I don't know yet, I'll say so. I won't guess.
You work with me, not a junior team.
Everything I build is yours, documented.
Your employee data stays masked.
Available for new projects
It's — in New Jersey (US Eastern)
About
I've worked on Workday integrations since Workday Release 11 (2010), and in enterprise software since 1993.
I started at DayNine as one of the first integration consultants at a Workday partner, led teams on projects with 50 to 100+ integrations, then spent five years at Sanofi running HR integration. Since 2020 I've worked independently through IntSysGuru LLC, with Workday customers directly and through implementation and staffing partners.
You work with me directly. No hand-offs to a junior team.
Request my full profilePassion | Knowledge | Experience, away from the keyboard
Nature, and the law of nature. Life's stubbornness to grow anywhere. Like a river: continuous and changing, the greatest constant.
Making memories, and the joy of reliving the moment. The details. Focusing on one thing, or on everything. The colors, and the lack of them.
Calm, peace, content, equanimity. The sensations, the good and the bad. It is what it is.
A finance system, written in Clipper.
Vantive field service and help desk projects.
CRM consultant. Pride Consulting Resource winner, 2002.
Principal Consultant, PeopleSoft CRM.
One of the first integration consultants. Later led teams of up to eight.
Presenter in 2012 and 2013. Partner Product Lead for Studio and Cloud Connect for Benefits.
Senior Manager, HR Integration. Release testing adopted globally.
Independent. 20+ Workday customers and counting.
Workday Studio and Cloud Connect for Benefits
Workday partner conference, 2012 and 2013
Consulting Resource winner, 2002
Studio, Cloud Connect for Benefits, Payroll Interface
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