Christopher Dowling Email & Phone Number

Pleasanton, California, United States

Sr. Software Development Engineer - Workday, Pleasanton, CASenior Software Development Engineer for Payroll North America teams. Developed new payroll features and compliance changes for US and Canadian Payroll.Workday Payroll Development- Agile Coach for multiple teams engaging in both Scrum and Kanban methodologies.- Developed new and updated existing US Federal, State, and Local tax calculations based on time critical compliance requirements.- Created… Show more Sr. Software Development Engineer - Workday, Pleasanton, CASenior Software Development Engineer for Payroll North America teams. Developed new payroll features and compliance changes for US and Canadian Payroll.Workday Payroll Development- Agile Coach for multiple teams engaging in both Scrum and Kanban methodologies.- Developed new and updated existing US Federal, State, and Local tax calculations based on time critical compliance requirements.- Created and maintained US and Canadian Tax Election and Year End forms using XpressO, JavaScript and BIRT technology.- Prototyped Machine Learning project to triage test failures in the development queue. - Technical champion for new languages (YP), Performance testing, and Printing Services (BIRT).- Developed extensive WATS Unit and Functional Automated tests.- Developed and tested Soap and Restful web services.- Advanced technology usage and team building through Hackathons and special projects. Show less

Pleasanton, Ca

Responsibilities:Maintain, add and enhance feature sets for ADP Vantage HCM and Probusiness Payroll service offerings using Agile development methodologies.Explore new technologies and lead development teams in adopting change.Mentor and provide technical expertise for global development teams.Partner with tactical support teams: Quality Systems, Technical Services, Operations, and IT to provide solutions for mission critical technical escalations.Serve… Show more Responsibilities:Maintain, add and enhance feature sets for ADP Vantage HCM and Probusiness Payroll service offerings using Agile development methodologies.Explore new technologies and lead development teams in adopting change.Mentor and provide technical expertise for global development teams.Partner with tactical support teams: Quality Systems, Technical Services, Operations, and IT to provide solutions for mission critical technical escalations.Serve on the product change control board to produce a product roadmap and prioritize enhancement requests.Gather and define user stories.Maintain and prioritize application backlog.Translate user stories into a technical design.Provide work effort and resource allocation.Define, maintain and drive projects to completion.Enhance and maintain data/middle and UI application tiers as well as extending back-end libraries in Java and front-end libraries in AngularJS.Provide production support escalation and post-maintenance validation as needed.Accomplishments:Enabled an Affordable Care Act compliance service offering for Vantage HCM clients by implementing a RESTful service integration between Vantage HCM and the Autopay Quarterly system.Enhanced client self-service for company-level setup (payroll calendars, deduction groups, special effect configuration and benefit calculation settings) by adding real-time bi-directional REST/SOAP service integration between AutoPay payroll engine and Vantage HCM system.Established real-time bi-directional REST/SOAP service integration between Siebel CRM and Vantage HCM system. Show less