Senior Manager- HR Solution Architect (SAP SuccessFactors)

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.  

YOUR ROLE

Overall, the ideal candidate for the role of HR Technology Solution Architect should possess a strong functional and technical background, extensive experience in HR technology, and the ability to provide architectural leadership in complex, agile environments, ensuring that technical solutions align with business objectives and best practices.

As a HR Solution Architect (with focus on SAP SuccessFactors) in the business you’ll help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team.  

Key expectations from this role include:

1. Lead the SAP SuccessFactors and HR Technology solution design aspects as part of wider HR Transformation programmes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical requirements.
2. Provide functional and technical leadership and guidance to teams, ensuring that the architecture aligns with best practices and industry standards.
3. Lead and manage multiple project workstreams such as functional design, testing, data migration and integration to deliver high quality results.
4.Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into functional and technical solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
5.Build and enhance relationships with internal stakeholders, clients and external vendors such as SAP, Oracle and Workday.
6.Manage the governance of solution design and technical architecture, including the development of artefacts such as Technology Roadmaps and Architecture Decision Logs.
7.Develop HR Technology thought leadership, working closely with colleagues in Workforce & Organisation and PBS.
8.Taking responsibility for development of junior colleagues.
9.Stay updated on the latest HR technology trends and best practices, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories: 

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events. 

• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development. 

• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc. 

YOUR PROFILE

• Experience working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background with proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Delivered 5 full lifecycle experience SAP SuccessFactors implementations or similar (Oracle HCM and / or Workday) as a HR Tech consultant and / or Solution Architect.
• Experience of sales, capability and proposition building and delivery.
• SAP SuccessFactors certifications (desirable).
• UK Security Clearance (desirable).

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

In a world of digital transformation, new operating models, and the new normal post the pandemic, organisations are facing major disruptions that require HR to help transform the way they think and act. Our Employee Experience & HR team’s purpose is to help our clients rethink employee experience and establish the digital HR function powered by data whilst leveraging emerging technologies to deliver our client’s shared vision. 

In your role you will engage with a range of clients to drive sustainable business outcomes within the realm of Digital HR Transformations, leveraging the capabilities of SAP SuccessFactors. Partnering with our clients across all industries, you will use your SAP SuccessFactors and HR Technology expertise to lead designing solutions and improve people experience with the use of HR technologies and tools. By enabling clients to succeed, you will help Capgemini Invent maintain its position as the market leader in Digital Transformation consulting.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue to build our Employee Experience & HR team. You will take an active role within our practice, contributing to our vision to become the UK’s leading Employee Experience & HR Advisory practice through co-creating a culture in which every team-member feels comfortable bringing their whole self to work and is empowered to deliver great work, grow and be free to innovate and have fun along the way

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work. 

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. 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. 

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. 

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about.  In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing. 

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. 

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.