Enterprise Candidate Hiring Platform
A custom end-to-end hiring platform for a Fortune-class retailer, including a secure background-check system, that cut annual hiring process cost by ~$4M.
A Fortune-class retail enterprise's candidate hiring process carried high recurring cost driven by inefficient workflows, manual steps, and fragmented tooling across the hiring lifecycle.
Architected and led delivery of a custom hiring platform that redesigned the workflow end to end. Built a secure, customizable criminal-background-check system as a core component — personally coding one module to keep the project on schedule — and led the technical team across design, implementation, and delivery.
~$4M per annum reduction in candidate hiring process expenditure.
This is the largest single dollar outcome in the portfolio, and it came from a domain — HR and hiring — that doesn’t typically attract architectural investment. The opportunity was visible because the team was embedded with the client rather than engaged on a short-term project: sustained proximity surfaces the high-cost processes that internal teams stop seeing.
The background-check system was technically the most demanding component: it needed to be customizable across roles and jurisdictions, secure enough for sensitive candidate data, and integrated with external data sources via SOAP. The decision to architect it as a standalone, configurable service rather than a hardcoded workflow meant it remained useful as hiring requirements changed.
Personally coding a module to meet the deadline is worth noting not as a heroic act but as a signal about how delivery actually works: architecture decisions that can’t be implemented on time aren’t good architecture.