Srinivasu Ellendula
Celina,Texas
Summary
Innovative Enterprise HR Systems Architect with extensive experience in designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure data architectures. Proficient Workday Technology Manager skilled in optimizing HR technology tools and possessing a deep understanding of diverse HR processes. Adept at coordinating global teams, managing resources, and overseeing the full Workday lifecycle from implementation to production support. Highly organized and detail-oriented professional with 20 years of industry experience, including 11 years focused on Workday solutions.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
HR Systems Architect
Levi Strauss & Co
12.2022 - Current
- Working as HR Data & Security Architect in the capacity of Senior Manager HR Technology
- Responsible for Leading entire workday System in terms of Security and Data maintenance
- Collaborated with business and technical partners to develop technical priorities and a roadmap for the workday Security Model
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and consistency across reporting and analytics ecosystems
- Developed and implemented comprehensive data architectures for HR systems, including data models, dictionaries, and lineage solutions
- Designed and enforced robust security models and governance frameworks to protect sensitive HR data.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
Enterprise Architect - Workday Implementation
Elevance Health
05.2021 - 11.2022
- Worked as Enterprise Architect with Elevance Health workday implementation from client side
- Oversee entire implementation from initiation to go-live
- As Enterprise Architect, I lead major workshops with client along with Implementation partner to finalize scope of implementation, Data needs, Security needs
- Collaborated with business and technical partners to develop technical priorities and roadmap for workday Security Model
- Led design and configuration of Security setup in workday, including domain and business process security policies
- Demonstrated knowledge of all aspects of Security module within workday
- Developed security procedures and controls in line with organizational and industry standards
- Change Management and Communication to Leadership/executive teams
- Lead workday redesign project, reviewed complete system setup, identified gaps, opportunities and developed scalable security model
- Monitored and responded to workday security defects and change requests
- Led deployment of new functionality for Security items across all modules in workday
- Partnered with HR Tech leadership on escalations and cross-functional impact
- Collaborated with key cross-functional partners to maintain transparency and consistency in delivery.
Subject Matter Expert
USAA
06.2018 - 04.2021
- Worked as workday Subject Matter Expert Partnered with internal and external vendors to elicit requirements, design, build, test, and deploy solutions using various workday tools.
- Worked as workday Subject Matter Expert Partnered with internal and external vendors to elicit requirements, design, build, test, and deploy solutions using various workday tools.
- Advised clients on optimal Workday practices for product usage, leveraging deep understanding of its offerings and configuration for enhanced business processes, custom reporting, and integrations.
- Worked with Product owners, Scrum teams, Business stake holders, privileged users to define technical requirement for new applications/integrations.
- Working with various developments teams to approve design and provide best alternatives.
- Providing support in integration Built and understanding issues and walk through resolution.
Project Manager
Vertex
05.2017 - 06.2018
- Worked as Project Manager for workday Space, and Responsible for supporting whole workday system, Process and over 100 integrations with more than 20 vendor systems
- Responsibilities include but not limited to Worked with Business stake holders, privileged users to define technical requirement for new applications/integrations/developments
- Creating new inbound and outbound integrations in workday for HR, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation
- Extensively worked on PECI integration, including Integration Attributes, mapping services, and formatting data in csv format for validation
- Manage design, development, testing, implementation and ongoing support of roles and security framework.
Project Manager
Nissan North America, Inc.
09.2015 - 05.2017
- Worked as workday Integration Manager mainly focus on Design, Built, Test and Deploy of integrations
- Participated in Technical Requirement meetings and gathered Captured business needs
- Worked on integrations design and configuration as per business need
- Performing unit testing, helping QA Teams in System Testing and Users with User Acceptance Testing
- Active participation of Open Enrollments and Modified various Benefit integrations to accommodate new plans which are adopted by client and handling retired plans
- Communicate business data changes to troubleshoot integration failures
- Fixing integrations which has missing scenarios while designing integration.
Project Manager
IBM Global
01.2013 - 08.2015
- Worked with workday on implementation Participated in Data Conversion from SAP to workday
- Participated in Future state design sessions with stake holders
- Worked on various workday developments in payroll and Core HR areas
- Assignment of development work to consultants, reviewing code provided by team members, validating test results, approving transports to quality, after functional test approving same to production
- Lead Quarter end and year end activities from technical point and supporting Functional team
- Provided solution to complex technical issues by fixing them in terms of Debugging, Root cause analysis and modifying code when needed.
SAP Implementation Project Lead
IBM - Global
12.2006 - 01.2013
Education
Master of Computer Applications, [Area] -
[Institution]
Chennai, India07.2001
Skills
- Project Management, Stakeholder management
- Execution road map, Cut-over Activities, Change Management
- Working Implementation, Workday Bi-Annual Upgrades & Workday Upgrade Testing
- Workday Configurable security & Workday Advance security
- Workday HCM & Business Process Administration
- Workday Integration tools , Workday Studio, EIB ,Core Connector
- Leading Discovery, Design, Architectural meetings
- Data Architectures, Data Flow, Data Integrity, Data Lineage
- Data Management, Data Models, Data Security
- Bi-Annual Audits, ongoing internal audits, System health Check
Accomplishments
- Successfully completed a Workday Security design project to address long-standing system gaps and improved leadership’s ability to manage Workday inbox clutter while maintaining data visibility.
- Designed and implemented a fully automated solution for Bi-Annual audits, ensuring 100% automation in audit data collection.
- Led the automation initiative, developing over 500 Business Processes for Bi-Annual upgrades.
- Created a solution to automatically disable Workday accounts and remove roles in lower environments upon employee termination, ensuring removal of unauthorized system access.
- Addressed complex requirement of restricting HR and leadership data from elevated users.
Certification
Workday HCM
Configurable Security
Advance Workday Security
Workday Engagement Management
Workday Integration
Languages
English
Full Professional
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Professional Working
Tamil
Limited Working
Timeline
HR Systems Architect
Levi Strauss & Co
12.2022 - Current
Enterprise Architect - Workday Implementation
Elevance Health
05.2021 - 11.2022
Subject Matter Expert
USAA
06.2018 - 04.2021
Project Manager
Vertex
05.2017 - 06.2018
Project Manager
Nissan North America, Inc.
09.2015 - 05.2017
Project Manager
IBM Global
01.2013 - 08.2015
SAP Implementation Project Lead
IBM - Global
12.2006 - 01.2013
Master of Computer Applications, [Area] -
[Institution]
Personal Information
Title: HR Systems Architect
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