Jay Makanji is a director with Baker Tilly’s digital solutions practice. With more than 25 years of experience related to human resource information systems. Prior to joining Baker Tilly, he worked with organizations to provide technical project management, technology solutions design, as well as talent management implementation and optimization initiatives.
Jay has worked with more than 85 clients on prior engagements involving the installation of Oracle human capital management (HCM) Cloud products. He has significant experience working with federal agencies, government contractors, financial services and healthcare industries. Jay is instrumental in providing clients with leadership and guidance, navigating the technical aspects of talent management systems. more than 20 years of experience related to human resource information systems. He has helped clients advance their understanding of systems and how they impact infrastructure and IT policy, as well as how functional design and decisions impact technological solutions.
- Served as technical workstream leader or scrum lead on multiple Oracle HCM Cloud implementations
- Analyzed existing current state processes and future state technology landscape to identify common design patterns and principles setting standards for future development
- Guided project teams with wide cross-sections of stakeholders through an extensive product and requirements review phase to inventory classify and prioritize dozens of future state processes and existing backlog
- Developed reusable workshop presentation tools that have been used to present current state design content of over a dozen processes
- Provided thought leadership and strategic support as a trusted advisor in the following areas: program management, cross-team collaboration, resourcing, onboarding and overall team management
- Planned Sprint Zero workshop calendar, session agenda design and workshop content development
- Led, delegated and advised an internal team to organize, prioritize and execute enhancements to conversion database accelerators
- Experienced in both traditional Waterfall and Agile Scrum oriented implementations
- Experienced as technical project manager of data conversion and integration projects
- Guides clients through complex technical topics such as security, network, encryption, file transport and other infrastructure related matters
- Experienced as a developer using native cloud tools such as HCM Data Loader (HDL), HCM Extracts, Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI), Payroll Flows and Oracle Integration Cloud
- Experienced in database design and development using Oracle DB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and Microsoft Access
- Experienced in development involving Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) based APIs
- Experienced in all phases of the implementation life cycle: requirements definition, specifications development, technical development, system integration and end-to-end testing, deployments and support
- Developed Excel spreadsheets including Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros to automate processes to foster extended team collaboration and efficiency. These have covered requirements collection, project or results tracking and automating data extractions
- Developed PowerPoint presentations and content for the purposes of kick-offs and playbacks