Likhitha Patel
Leander
Summary
Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise HR technology solutions, cloud integrations, and large-scale migration programs. Extensive expertise in Workday HCM, Azure Logic Apps, enterprise middleware modernization, and HR integrations, with a strong background in leading cross-functional teams from solution architecture through production deployment.
Proven track record leading strategic initiatives including SmartRecruiters to Workday ATS migration, BizTalk to Azure Logic Apps modernization, and Identity & Access Management (IAM) transformation for global organizations. Experienced in enterprise architecture, technical leadership, stakeholder management, project estimation, and end-to-end SDLC delivery.
Hands-on engineer passionate about modern integration platforms, cloud technologies, and AI-assisted software development using Claude, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT, with working knowledge of Workday Orchestrate, and Workday Extend.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Software Engineer
Visa INC
Austin
12.2021 - Current
- Technical Lead for enterprise HR transformation and cloud migration initiatives supporting global HR platforms.
- Leading the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) migration from SmartRecruiters to Workday, driving requirements gathering, architecture, effort estimation, project planning, and implementation.
- Middleware modernization by migrating legacy BizTalk integrations to Azure Logic Apps, enabling scalable cloud-native integration architecture.
- Leading the ongoing Identity & Access Management (IAM) migration initiative across enterprise HR systems.
- Architected and delivered the Background Integration (BGI) platform to streamline demographic data flow into IAM systems, reducing provisioning delays and improving data accuracy.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across HR, IAM, Infrastructure, Security, and third-party vendors to deliver enterprise integration solutions.
- Design and develop integrations supporting payroll providers including ADP and CloudPay.
- Develop HR application extensions, security configurations, business process policies, and enterprise integrations.
- Build and maintain BIRT reports, including enterprise Merit Statement generation.
- Contribute to Workday employment contract automation using Workday Orchestrate and maintain working knowledge of Workday Extend.
- Regularly leverage Claude, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT to accelerate software development, solution design, debugging, documentation, and code quality.
Sr Workday Consultant
SouthWest Airlines
Dallas
07.2022 - 12.2021
- Worked on Payroll and HCM implementation cycle to migrate HR systems from SAP systems to Workday.
- Developed payroll inbound integrations to input pay calculations within Workday.
- Experience on Payroll setups. Settlement runs and pay data configurations.
- Create detailed system integration specifications, field mapping, and system process designs and document the detailed functional design.
- Exclusively worked on public web services. Worked on complex third party Federal third-party project that need full feed, changes only feeds using a web service.
- Knowledge on Workday Domain, Functional Areas, Role and User based security.
- Created Audit tags and Audit segments to monitor the changes done in integration, reports and domains.
- Supported the project through Critical post-production phase and resolved issues as they came in as Dash tickets.
Sr. Software Engineer
Visa INC
Austin
05.2018 - 07.2021
- Participate in Business requirement meetings and is responsible for providing estimates, scope, and timeline for the project.
- Expertise in Payroll, HCM and compensation modules.
- SME in Payroll, working on daily based payroll issues, creating inbound and outbound studios for ADP, creating PICOF’s and PECI’s for global countries and CloudPay integrations.
- Experience in creating Dashboards and Worklets.
- Experience in developing inbound and outbound API’s.
- Design and implement solutions to enhance the end user experience utilizing vendor supplied APIs and web services.
- Involved in support team to fix the payroll issues on daily basis.
- Partner with IT groups such as Engineering, Network, Security, and Infrastructure on project delivery activities specific to integration and development.
- Participate in end user support of integrations for SaaS and hosted applications, including diagnosing, troubleshooting, and corrective actions.
- Participate in vendor demo and technical deep dive sessions for upcoming projects.
Sr. Workday Integration Consultant
Toyota Financial Services
Plano
03.2018 - 05.2018
- Implemented inbound and outbound integrations using Workday EIB with XSLT specifications to transform the document format into the desired file format such as CSV or Excel, Web Services SOAP, REST, XML and XSLT.
- Manage day to day tickets raised by the user through ticketing systems and assign it to each team members based on the work.
- Worked on EIB outbound using Custom Report as Data Source.
- Perform the Regression testing for new changes related to Functionality of Business Process and Integrations.
- Worked on different ways of using Doc Transforms as a step in Core Connector BP for Document Transform of the XML from CCW and as well used standalone DT and got the data from CR using document retrieval step and developed integrations.
Sr. Workday Consultant
DELL INC
Round Rock
02.2016 - 02.2018
- Involved in workday HCM full implementation cycle.
- Experience in gap analysis, development, SIT, UAT, go live and production phases of the project.
- Created multiple PICOF integrations to integrate data between workday and third-party payroll integrations globally.
- Worked on integrating workday data to downstream applications within Dell like active directory, time tracking, ticketing system etc.
- Lead the detail design sessions for PICOF and CCW integrations.
- Worked with various third-party payroll vendors like ADP, ADP Global View, ADP streamline, RAMCO etc. globally.
- Designed and developed Benefit integrations to send the enrollment data and eligibility data to the benefit providers.
- Designed the integration security architecture for Workday at Dell so that all standards followed according to the internal SOX audit process.
- Designed and developed various Workday Studio integration bi-directionally.
- Extensively worked on gathering business requirements, developing integrations.
- Created multiple calculated fields and reports as needed.
- Developed EIB's, core connectors, doc transformations, workday studio, workday advance studio.
- Worked on business process fundamentals (creating recruitments, offer etc. for the business requirements), workday security (creating ISU's and ISSG's).
- Knowledge on workday domain, functional areas, roles and user based security.
- Participated in discussions with client and vendors, created design and mapping documents and submitted for sign off.
- Experience in using sequence generators, creating complex XSLT scripts.
- Exclusive owner of 18 integrations.
- Exclusive mentor for a group of 4 people and also indirect mentor for the team of 20 people. assisted them in building their integrations, hosted knowledge transfer sessions in parts like calculated fields, connectors, and Complex studio integrations.
- Actively participated in performance management and securities.
- Experience in creating custom reports using WD report writer, BIRT reports.
- Developed reports on Recruitment, locations, cost centers and benefits.
- Worked on third party applications on onboarding process.
- As part of a testing program, helped out testing team in testing the integrations.
- Experience on report logs to find out the performance details.
- Extensive knowledge in creating complex calculated fields.
SQL Programmer (ELTP)
Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Extensively got trained in basic and advanced SQL programming.
- Developed SQL scripts for the SDLC in web application development and data analysis.
- Involved Data asks discussions with the data modelling team and the product owners, to get better understanding on the data sets required for the application development.
- Closely worked with backend developers to develop store procedures, functions and triggers to ingest the data from the staging environment to application database.
- Worked with data integration, ETL teams to refactor the SQL queries.
- Good Knowledge on gathering data requirements from users, required for development and monitoring UI requirements and database captures.
- Expertise in documenting or capturing data mapping from source to target databases.
- Designed and Developed a Custom SQL scripts in identifying the missing Cost data after each payroll costing process and processing these missing costing data successfully in Pay Costs tables for interfacing to GL. This process developed for historical missing data and as well as on-going process.
- Designed and Developed Inbound Extracts providing ongoing support and development.
- Created SQL statements to insert as well as to fetch data from the database Oracle9i.
Education
Masters - Computers and Information systems security
University of Cumberland’s
Williamsburg, KY08-2020
Masters -
University of Hartford
Hartford, CT12-2015
Bachelors -
JNTUH
Hyderabad, India06-2013
Skills
- Workday
- SQL
- Service Now
- JIRA
- WinScp
- Putty
- PGP encryption
- MS Excel
- Windows XP
- Windows 7
- UNIX
- MS access
- Sybase
- HR
- Finance
- XML
- HTML
- XSLT
- HTTP
- FTP
- SMTP
- TCP/IP
- SOAP
- Workday Studio
- WD Reports
- SDLC cycle Rational Unified Processing (RUP)
- AGILE Methodology
- Joint Application Development (JAD)
- Rapid Application Development (RAD)
- Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Timeline
Sr Workday Consultant
SouthWest Airlines
07.2022 - 12.2021
Staff Software Engineer
Visa INC
12.2021 - Current
Sr. Software Engineer
Visa INC
05.2018 - 07.2021
Sr. Workday Integration Consultant
Toyota Financial Services
03.2018 - 05.2018
Sr. Workday Consultant
DELL INC
02.2016 - 02.2018
SQL Programmer (ELTP)
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2014 - 07.2014
Masters - Computers and Information systems security
University of Cumberland’s
Masters -
University of Hartford
Bachelors -
JNTUH