Two Focus Areas. One Team.

Configure Dayforce right.
Then make your data work harder.

Data Wave runs two focused practices — deep Dayforce HCM expertise, and a full-stack Data & AI engineering capability.

Specialists in Dayforce HCM configuration, custom ETL pipelines, and workforce analytics — including AI-powered solutions built for production environments.

Dayforce → Data & AI →

43+

Enterprise Dayforce clients served

200 hrs

Manual work eliminated weekly via custom workflows

$500K+

Revenue retained via automated ETL integrations

Hours → Seconds

Research time cut via RAG AI knowledge system

Focus Area One

Dayforce HCM
Configuration & Implementation

From Core HR and WFM setup to pay policies, custom reporting, and integrations — we configure Dayforce to match how your business actually runs, not how the manual says it should.

Core HR Configuration

Org structures, position management, job definitions, employee records, and role-based security — the foundation everything else sits on.

Custom Forms & Workflows

Multi-step approval workflows for onboarding, offboarding, and position changes — routing tied to role, org unit, and manager hierarchy.

Workforce Management

Shift scheduling, time & attendance, absence tracking, and labor allocation — built around your operational reality, not a generic template.

Pay Policies & Entitlements

Statutory holidays, overtime tiers, shift premiums, and accrual-based entitlements — across multi-jurisdiction environments where eligibility rules all vary.

Custom Reporting

Dayforce reports across HR, payroll, and compliance — standardized metric definitions, automated outputs, and executive dashboards that don't need a data team to run.

Dayforce Integrations

API-based connections to Active Directory, Snowflake, benefits carriers (Guardian, Anthem), and ERP systems — cutting manual data entry by 50%.

Data Conversion & Migration

Employee records, payroll history, and entitlement balances migrated from legacy HRIS into Dayforce — with validation testing across 500,000+ records at 98% accuracy.

People Analytics

Turnover trends, headcount movement, and compensation analysis on top of Dayforce data — with KPI frameworks that hold up to executive scrutiny across 43+ clients.

Dayforce engagements

Core HR & Workflows

Building the HR Foundation From the Ground Up

Configured Core HR end-to-end — org hierarchy, position management, custom onboarding and offboarding workflows with multi-step approval routing, and role-based security ensuring the right people have the right access.

WFM Configuration

Scheduling & Time That Reflects How You Actually Operate

Built WFM configurations covering shift scheduling, time-off rules, absence tracking, and labor allocation — structured around each client's operational reality with compliance baked in from day one.

Pay Policies

Getting Pay Right — Every Time, Every Employee

Configured complex pay policies covering statutory holidays, overtime tiers, shift premiums, and accrual entitlements across multi-client environments with varying jurisdictions and eligibility rules.

Integrations

Active Directory, Snowflake & Benefits Carrier Connections

Synced employee identity with Active Directory for automated provisioning, piped HR data into a Snowflake data lake, and connected benefits carriers Guardian and Anthem for real-time enrollment and eligibility exchange.

Data Migration

500K+ Records Into Dayforce Without Losing Trust in the Data

Led HRIS data conversions migrating employee records, payroll history, and entitlement balances — managing HR imports, validation rules, and reconciliation testing to achieve 98% accuracy with zero downtime.

Reporting

Executive Workforce Dashboards Across 43+ Clients

Built and standardized Dayforce reporting across HR, payroll, and compliance — designing Power BI dashboards tracking headcount, attrition, and compensation with KPI definitions that stayed consistent across client environments.

Dayforce impact, by the numbers.

200 hrs

Manual HR work eliminated every week through custom Dayforce forms and approval workflow redesign.

98%

Data accuracy migrating 500,000+ records from legacy HRIS into Dayforce with zero downtime.

50%

Reduction in manual data entry via API integrations connecting Dayforce to Active Directory, Snowflake, Guardian and Anthem.

43+

Enterprise clients served with standardized KPI frameworks and Dayforce reporting solutions.

Focus Area Two

Data Engineering,
Analytics & AI

Custom Python ETL pipelines, Power BI dashboards, Snowflake integrations, and AI systems — from retrieval-augmented knowledge bases to production ML models built for the real world.

Custom ETL Pipelines

Python-built end-to-end data pipelines — API extraction, transformation logic, SQL loading, PDF/XML parsing, and scheduled delivery to your data warehouse.

Snowflake & Cloud Data Lakes

Data lake architecture and pipeline delivery into Snowflake — structured schemas, automated ingestion, and clean data that your BI tools can actually trust.

Power BI & SQL Analytics

Executive dashboards tracking workforce, financial, and operational KPIs — built on clean SQL pipelines with standardized metric definitions that hold up across reporting periods.

AI & RAG Systems

Production-ready retrieval-augmented generation systems — indexing your internal knowledge across Confluence, Salesforce, or custom sources, with strict data access controls.

Workforce Turnover Analytics

Custom Python ETL solutions that surface department-level attrition patterns buried in your HRIS data — giving leadership the visibility to intervene before talent walks out the door.

Enterprise System Integrations

API-based connections across Workday, SAP, D365, Oracle/NetSuite, and Salesforce — automated data flows that eliminate manual entry and keep systems in sync.

MLOps & Production Deployment

Time-series forecasting, NLP models, and ML pipelines deployed to production — CI/CD workflows on AWS and Vercel with proper monitoring and version control.

Privacy-First AI Architecture

AI systems designed for security-restricted environments — strict data governance, access controls, and audit trails that let you deploy AI even where standard tools can't go.

Data & AI engagements

Workforce Analytics

Turnover Intelligence — Finding Where Attrition Was Hiding

Built a custom Python ETL pipeline pulling from Dayforce data to surface department-level turnover patterns that aggregate reporting was masking. Leadership finally saw exactly where they were losing people — and made targeted retention interventions that measurably reduced attrition in the highest-risk teams.

AI Engineering

Privacy-First AI for Security-Restricted Enterprise Clients

Architected an AI system with strict data access controls and audit governance — enabling secure deployment in highly restricted client environments and unlocking $200K in new project value that standard AI tooling couldn't reach.

RAG System

Knowledge Base That Made 6,000 Articles Searchable in Seconds

Built a retrieval-augmented AI system indexing 6,000 technical articles across Salesforce and Confluence — collapsing document research from hours to seconds for a 40-person consulting team and putting institutional knowledge one query away.

Enterprise ETL

Payroll Automation Across 5,000+ Employees

Led large-scale data integrations connecting Workday, SAP, D365, and Oracle/NetSuite — automating complex payroll workflows at scale and retaining up to $500K in revenue by eliminating costly manual processing errors.

Data Consolidation

Cross-System Integration — Fortune 500 Pharma Company

Key contributor on a company-wide data consolidation initiative integrating Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Model N, and JDE into unified Power BI reporting — improving operational efficiency by 80% and preventing $2.3M in potential financial losses.

Snowflake

HR Data Lake — Dayforce to Snowflake Pipeline

Designed and deployed an automated pipeline extracting HR and workforce data from Dayforce and loading it into a Snowflake data lake — giving analytics teams clean, structured data for enterprise reporting without touching production systems.

Data & AI impact, by the numbers.

$200K

New project value unlocked by building a privacy-first AI system for security-restricted enterprise clients.

6,000

Technical articles indexed in a RAG AI system — cutting research from hours to seconds for 40 consultants.

$500K

Revenue retained through large-scale ETL integrations automating payroll workflows for 5,000+ employees.

$2.3M

Potential financial losses prevented through optimized cross-system reporting at a Fortune 500 pharma company.

Configure Dayforce right.Then make your data work harder.

Dayforce HCMConfiguration & Implementation