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Director — Delivery
Sumeet Rastogi
Workday & AI-enabled
HR Technology Leader
Building scalable delivery models, high-performing teams, and enterprise integrations that turn complex transformation into business momentum.
Director — DeliveryWorkday · HR Technology · AI
Enterprise transformation
Global delivery
100+Enterprise integrations delivered
12Workday certifications
06Enterprise domains
India → GlobalDelivery leadership
Leadership thesis
I build the operating system
behind transformation.
Technology transformation succeeds when strong architecture, capable people, and disciplined delivery move together.
I'm a Workday delivery leader focused on that intersection. At Argano, I lead India delivery growth for Workday Integrations—balancing solution quality, client outcomes, team capability, and practice scale.
My journey from hands-on integration consulting to delivery leadership keeps me close to the technology while operating at the level of portfolios, teams, and business outcomes.
Platform
Create reusable delivery systems that compound expertise.
Performance
Align quality, speed, accountability, and client value.
Selected impact
From individual delivery to institutional capability.
The through-line in my work is scale: making complex delivery more reliable today while building the team and systems that make it stronger tomorrow.
Integrations deployed
Delivered across HCM, payroll, benefits, finance, student, security, and complex cross-platform landscapes.
Workday credentials
Certified across Integration, Studio, Extend, Orchestration, Security, Data Conversion, Benefits, and Launch.
Enterprise domains
Hands-on perspective across HCM, payroll, benefits, finance, student, and identity and security transformation.
Delivery motions
Experience spanning implementations, complex proofs of concept, AMS operations, and reusable accelerator development.
End-to-end delivery model
From an ambiguous requirement to a scalable operating capability.- 01
Strategy
Scope, estimation, sequencing, and risk
Clear delivery path - 02
Architecture
Patterns, security, mapping, and controls
Resilient solution design - 03
Delivery
Build, testing, governance, and quality
Production-ready outcome - 04
Operations
Monitoring, AMS, optimization, and reuse
Compounding capability
Portfolio depth
One platform.
Six enterprise domains.
My work connects deep Workday specialization with the surrounding enterprise landscape—APIs, payroll, finance, identity, student systems, automation, and the operating model required to run them.
01Capability domain
HCM & Payroll
Worker, organization, payroll input, payroll actual, and high-volume change integrations.
StudioPECIPICOFCore ConnectorsEIB
02Capability domain
Benefits
Eligibility, enrollment, deduction, COBRA, carrier, and API-based benefits ecosystems.
CCB834APIsRaaSCalculated Fields
03Capability domain
Finance
Supplier invoices, general ledger, payment workflows, validation, and financial controls.
SOAPRESTStudioEIBBIRT
04Capability domain
Student & Higher Education
Student records, academic periods, registrations, grades, and education-system interfaces.
Student APIsRESTSOAPRaaSXSLT
05Capability domain
Identity & Security
Provisioning, security administration, custom objects, audit tooling, and controlled access patterns.
SecurityOAuth 2.0ISU / ISSGOktaAPIs
06Capability domain
Experience & Automation
Employee experiences, orchestrated workflows, reusable IP, and AI-assisted delivery systems.
ExtendOrchestrationAIPythonReusable IP
ArchitectureIntegration patterns, security, APIs, data, and controls
LeadershipPractice growth, resourcing, mentoring, and governance
ScaleReusable assets, automation, AI, and AMS discipline
Global deliveryIndia capability, North America execution, and GCC growth
Representative solution patterns
Complex work, made legible.
An anonymized view of the solution shapes I work with—showing the business context, technical patterns, and controls without exposing client-confidential details.
01Workforce & payroll
Global HCM and SAP mini-master flows
Mapping-intensive worker, organization, position, payroll, and absence data across multiple processing cycles and downstream record layouts.
PECICore ConnectorsStudioFixed-widthXSLT
02Benefits API
Eligibility data to governed JSON
Report and calculated-field outputs transformed into API-ready payloads with explicit schema, missing-value, eligibility, and change-detection rules.
RaaSCalculated FieldsJSONRESTStudio
03Financial controls
Supplier invoice and GL interfaces
Inbound finance patterns designed around reference mapping, control totals, line validation, attachments, security, and auditable error handling.
SOAPRESTEIBStudioValidation
04Higher education
Student record and grade data flows
Academic-period crosswalks, student-registration lookups, grade submissions, and custom-object updates across Workday Student ecosystems.
Student APIsCrosswalksRESTSOAPCustom Objects
Core expertise
Deep Workday depth.
Wider enterprise perspective.
A technical foundation strengthened by delivery leadership, practice building, and a growing focus on AI-enabled operating models.
01Architecture
Workday Integration Architecture
Designing resilient integration landscapes across Studio, Orchestration, EIB, Core Connectors, CCB, PECI, RaaS, REST, SOAP, XSLT, and BIRT.
02Innovation
AI-enabled Delivery
Turning delivery knowledge into reusable templates, intelligent accelerators, stronger documentation, faster analysis, and repeatable quality.
03People
Practice & Team Leadership
Building high-performing teams through hiring, mentoring, certification pathways, ownership, and pragmatic offshore delivery governance.
04Transformation
Enterprise Transformation
Translating business priorities into delivery roadmaps, resource strategies, operating rhythms, and measurable execution across programs and AMS.
Capability matrix
Technology connected to outcomes.
A working toolkit spanning Workday-native technologies, enterprise APIs, security, reporting, automation, and data engineering.
CapabilityTechnologyApplied to
Integration engineeringStudio · EIB · CCW · RaaS · XSLT 2.0/3.0Enterprise interfaces, transformations, connectors, and high-volume processing
APIs & securityREST · SOAP · OAuth 2.0 · ISU/ISSG · Configurable SecurityGoverned machine-to-machine connectivity and least-privilege access
Payroll & benefitsPECI · PICOF · CCTPP · CCB · 834Payroll changes, actuals, eligibility, enrollment, and carrier ecosystems
Experience & automationExtend · Orchestration · Python · FastAPI · AIEmployee experiences, workflow automation, reusable IP, and delivery accelerators
Reporting & dataCalculated Fields · BIRT · Pandas · XML · JSONAuditable reporting, document outputs, data analysis, and format conversion
Data formatsXML · JSON · CSV · Fixed-width · Pipe-delimited
ConnectivityREST · SOAP · SFTP · OAuth 2.0
LifecycleDiscovery · Design · Build · Test · Deploy · AMS
Delivery lensIndia capability · North America delivery · GCC growth
Featured field notes
Ideas from the work.
Perspectives on Workday delivery, practice building, AI-enabled operating models, and the evolving GCC technology landscape.
Explore all notesAI & DeliveryJuly 2026 · 8 min read
01The AI-enabled delivery model: beyond individual productivity
The real opportunity is not a faster consultant. It is a delivery system that learns, reuses knowledge, and improves quality with every engagement.
Read field noteWorkday LeadershipJuly 2026 · 6 min read
02Scaling an integration practice without diluting quality
Growth becomes sustainable when capability, governance, and ownership scale together—not when a team simply adds more people.
Read field noteGCC StrategyJuly 2026 · 5 min read
03What enterprise HR technology leaders should watch in the GCC
A practical view of the delivery models, ecosystem relationships, and AI expectations shaping the region's next transformation cycle.
Read field noteCredentials & growth
Technical credibility. Leadership trajectory.
I invest deliberately in both depth and breadth—staying current across Workday's technology stack while expanding my perspective into business strategy and organizational leadership.
ISB
Indian School of Business
PGP MAX — Management for Senior Executives
Executive education · 2026–27
Workday certifications12
HCM Services CoreIntegration CoreWorkday StudioWorkday ExtendOrchestration for IntegrationsCloud Connect for BenefitsCCTPP — Product LeadConfigurable SecurityAdvanced SecurityData ConversionEM / PMLaunch
Career journey
Director — Delivery
Argano · India delivery growth & Workday leadership
Consultant → Lead → Manager
Intecrowd · Workday integrations & team leadership
Integration Engineering
Enterprise systems, complex interfaces & delivery craft
The next chapter
Let's build what's next.
I'm open to conversations around enterprise applications leadership, Workday practice growth, AI-enabled delivery transformation, and strategic opportunities across the GCC and global market.
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