SAP SuccessFactors Solution Architect

Smartedge Client is looking for an individual to help with their SAP SuccessFactors Solution Architect @ Remote Working (UK)

Job Description:

Provide senior SAP SuccessFactors solution architecture, design authority and service assurance

The role will provide architectural governance across the SuccessFactors landscape, strengthen the existing run capability and act as the senior escalation point for complex solution, integration and service issues.

The Solution Architect will augment, rather than replace, the existing ADM team, providing architectural oversight and senior SME expertise where issues or changes require deeper product knowledge, cross-solution understanding, design assurance or strategic engagement

The role will help strengthen SAP capability within the service, improve solution quality and supportability, address recurring issues and technical debt, and provide with access to senior SuccessFactors expertise for both immediate service needs and longer-term platform evolution.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design Authority

• Act as the senior SAP SuccessFactors Solution Architect and design authority

• Provide architectural oversight across the end-to-end SuccessFactors landscape, including Employee Central, Talent modules, platform capabilities, security, integrations, upstream and downstream systems, and relevant payroll interfaces.

• Review and assure significant solution, configuration and integration changes, ensuring they are architecturally sound, secure, scalable and supportable.

• Ensure solutions remain aligned with SAP recommended practices and the wider enterprise architecture.

• Review solution designs produced by ADM, project/change teams, SAP or third parties where changes impact the SuccessFactors landscape.

• Maintain and evolve relevant solution architecture principles, key design decisions, integration architecture, technical debt considerations and architectural recommendations.

• Provide architectural input into change and design governance, assessing cross-functional and cross-system impacts before significant changes are implemented.

• Act as the senior SuccessFactors escalation point for complex, high-impact or recurring service issues requiring deeper product or architectural expertise.

• Provide expert intervention, root-cause guidance and architectural recommendations for complex SuccessFactors incidents and problems.

• Identify systemic weaknesses across configuration, integrations, security, data, solution design and operational processes.

• Distinguish between tactical fixes and underlying architectural issues and ensure short-term remediation does not create longer-term supportability or technical debt.

• Participate in major incident and problem reviews where senior SAP SuccessFactors expertise is required.

• Where appropriate, engage SAP product support and escalation channels and constructively challenge proposed resolutions.

• Assess the architectural and operational impact of SuccessFactors releases, upgrades, patches and significant changes.

• Identify technical debt, optimisation opportunities, architectural risks and areas where the service or solution can be improved.

• Advise and the ADM team on the SuccessFactors roadmap, optimisation opportunities and future platform capabilities.

• Provide architectural guidance on the integration of SuccessFactors with the wider SAP and non-SAP enterprise landscape, including SAP Integration Suite / CPI, SAP ERP or S/4HANA and third-party platforms.

• Support development of a sustainable SuccessFactors roadmap balancing immediate service priorities with longer-term architectural direction.

• Provide informed guidance on emerging SAP capabilities, including SAP BTP and relevant SAP Business AI capabilities where applicable to the landscape.

• Act as the senior SuccessFactors architecture contact within the ADM service.

• Engage credibly with senior stakeholders, translating complex technical issues into clear business implications, risks, options and recommendations.

• Work effectively across application management, project/change, enterprise architecture, integration, security and other technical teams.

• Collaborate with SAP and relevant third parties where specialist product or technical engagement is required.

• Coach and knowledge-transfer to the existing ADM team to strengthen SuccessFactors capability and reduce unnecessary dependency on specialist escalation.

• Promote consistent architecture, design and support practices across the service.

• Significant hands-on SAP SuccessFactors experience at Lead Consultant, SME, Solution Architect or Enterprise Architect level.

• Demonstrable experience acting as a SuccessFactors Solution Architect or Design Authority within a complex enterprise environment.

• Strong functional knowledge of SuccessFactors Employee Central and a broad understanding of the wider SAP SuccessFactors / HXM landscape.

• Ability to operate across multiple SuccessFactors functional areas and understand cross-module dependencies without needing to be the configuration specialist for every module.

• Proven experience supporting complex live SuccessFactors environments, including production issue diagnosis, problem management, architectural remediation and service improvement.

• Strong understanding of SuccessFactors integration patterns, APIs, SAP Integration Suite / CPI and integration with SAP ERP / S/4HANA and third-party platforms.

• Experience developing and reviewing solution architectures, design principles, roadmaps and architectural recommendations.

• Experience of SuccessFactors release management and assessing the impact of SAP's release lifecycle on enterprise solutions.

• Strong understanding of security, roles, data, integration and non-functional considerations across SuccessFactors.

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale and/or global SuccessFactors estates.

• Ability to work effectively across application management, project/change, architecture and technical teams.

• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder-management capability, including engagement with senior stakeholders.

• Relevant SAP SuccessFactors professional certification.

• Experience working in complex, regulated or critical-national-infrastructure environments.

• Previous SAP AMS / ADM or comparable live-service experience.

• Experience with SAP BTP and SAP Integration Suite.

• Understanding of SAP Business AI and evolving AI capabilities across the SuccessFactors/HXM portfolio.

• Experience providing design assurance, architecture governance or independent architecture review.

• Experience working across complex SAP and non-SAP integration landscapes.

• Ability to operate effectively across both tactical incident resolution and strategic roadmap conversations.

If this sounds like a role you would be interested in or if you know someone in this field.

Connect with me or email me at vineetha.s@smartedgesolutions.co.uk

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