SuccessFactors Solution Architect

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Global collaboration

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant to support large‑scale SAP SuccessFactors implementations for high‑profile clients in the UK. The role involves collaborating with global teams, delivering innovative SAP EC Payroll solutions, and guiding multi‑workstream projects with a focus on hybrid delivery models.

You will work across Payroll architecture, design, and integration, while staying current with SAP technologies and best practices.

Qualifications

• Experienced SAP Payroll consultant with hands‑on experience across multiple project lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Develop Payroll architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
• Translate requirements into an architectural blueprint delivering business objectives.
• Implement SAP SuccessFactors solutions with Payroll expertise including PCC.
• Lead design and build of payroll integrations and configurations.
• Guide clients on SAP best practices and SuccessFactors roadmap.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Lead high performing teams with on/offshore delivery models.
• Prepare documentation artefacts (Design Documents, Functional Specs, WRICEFs).
• Contribute to pre‑sales and expert demos for prospective clients.

Skills

SAP Payroll

Team leadership

Communication skills

Pre-sales

Agile

Offshore delivery

Tools

Payroll Control Centre

SAP WorkZone

BTP

Job description

About The Job You’re Considering

As a Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant within Capgemini’s leading and award‑winning SuccessFactors Practice, you will be responsible for supporting complex, large‑scale SuccessFactors implementations for a range of high‑profile clients. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled teams across the global Capgemini Group and to play a pivotal role in designing innovative solutions for our clients.

About The Job You’re Considering

As a Senior SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Consultant within Capgemini’s leading and award‑winning SuccessFactors Practice, you will be responsible for supporting complex, large‑scale SuccessFactors implementations for a range of high‑profile clients. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled teams across the global Capgemini Group and to play a pivotal role in designing innovative solutions for our clients.
You will bring experience of working as part of a team delivering large, multi‑workstream initiatives, including managing business process design and transformation using SAP SuccessFactors. Working for Capgemini provides opportunities for accelerated career progression, along with continued professional development through our unique training programmes.
About our UK SAP Practice Team: Capgemini UK is a leading SAP Integration Partner, helping our clients navigate through complex SAP transformations. Capgemini UK has 1000 + SAP practitioners across UK & India and are ranked #1 for SAP S/4HANA® certifications in UK and globally. We work closely with our clients to transform their business together using the latest SAP products and architecture, a deep knowledge of industries and markets, and innovative delivery methodologies.
Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre‑employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)
Your role

• Experience developing Payroll architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps
• Translating business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines how requirements will deliver the desired business objectives
• Implement innovative, robust, and future‑proof SAP SuccessFactors solutions with expertise in SAP/Employee Central Payroll, and supporting technologies, including Payroll Control Centre
• Strong experience in SuccessFactors and/or ECC Payroll configuration and strong knowledge and experience in design and build of payroll related integrations
• Guide clients on SAP best practice and innovations, whilst being up to date with the SuccessFactors roadmap and having an awareness of other HR technologies
• You will have the ability to communicate effectively to stakeholders at all levels within a client’s organization
• Lead high performing teams that can work flexibly, incorporating both on and offshore delivery models
• Support and liaise closely with your corresponding teams to resolve issues, provide solutions, and offer support to meet delivery obligations
• Prepare quality documentation artefacts such as Solution Design Documents, Functional Specifications, WRICEFs, etc
• Ensure quality delivery of our Technology solutions
• Contribute to shaping our response to RFPs and collaborate with other Capgemini teams during the pre‑sales process, including the delivery of expert demos to prospective clients
• Build and continually strengthen your network across Capgemini, our Clients and Partners
• Experience of working in a multi supplier environment to deliver projects on time

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your Skills And Experience

• Experienced SAP Payroll consultant who has gained hands‑on experience from working through multiple project lifecycles. Lead requirements workshops and you team through the project delivery, especially focussed on Payroll Comparison testing cycles to verify suitability of the delivered solution. Experience within Live Support environments is advantageous.
• A team player with strong functional SAP Payroll knowledge and broader technical awareness (in things such as Integration to/from 3rd party products in Benefits, Time Mgmt., and Payroll) and broader technical awareness (in things such as Security, Integration, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver high quality presentations to senior client stakeholders
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Enthusiasm and proactiveness for learning and staying current with SAP latest technologies
• Experience in leading pre‑sales activities and articulating the benefits SuccessFactors brings to clients
• Enjoy mentoring and developing junior talent as well as sharing knowledge across the team and the wider SAP Practice
• Familiar with supporting technologies such as Payroll Control Centre (PCC), SAP WorkZone, Business Technology Platform (BTP), and how they enhance employee and administrator experience
• Familiarity with the integration to SAP ERP HCM or S/4HANA via BIB would be beneficial as well as other HR dependent processes within an ERP platform
• Passionate to work with our clients advising them on how to get the most out of their SAP technologies
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
• Innovative and open minded in your thinking with a passion for change and dynamic working in a team providing a first‑class service to our client
• Troubleshooting and resolution of payroll‑related activities, ensuring timely resolution and accurate payroll processing

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.
There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

You will be encouraged to have a positive work‑life balance. Our hybrid‑first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day‑to‑day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 12 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
Capgemini. Make it real.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free‑thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI‑powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end‑to‑end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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