Senior SuccessFactors Solution Architect

About the job you’re considering

As a Senior SuccessFactors Solution Architect within Capgemini’s leading and award winning SuccessFactors Practice, you will have the responsibility of working across complex, large-scale SuccessFactors implementations for a range of high-profile clients. You will have experience of leading cross-functional teams on large Global projects and managing business process design and transformation. This role offers the chance to work and collaborate with highly skilled teams across our Global Capgemini Group and play a pivotal role in designing innovative solutions for our clients.

This role offers the chance to work and collaborate with highly skilled teams across our Global Capgemini Group and play a pivotal role in designing innovative solutions for our clients. Working for Capgemini offers you the opportunity for accelerated career progression, as well continued professional development through our unique training opportunities.

 This role offers the chance to work and collaborate with highly skilled teams across our Global Capgemini Group and play a pivotal role in designing innovative solutions for our clients. Working for Capgemini offers you the opportunity for accelerated career progression, as well continued professional development through our unique training opportunities.

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

Solution Architecture & Design

• Develop comprehensive architecture blueprints, strategies, and multi‑year roadmaps that align HR technology with business goals.
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into clear architectural designs and solution documentation.
• Architect and implement robust, scalable, and future‑proof SAP SuccessFactors solutions, leveraging deep expertise across SuccessFactors modules and supporting technologies.
• Ensure solutions align with SAP best practices, industry standards, and client enterprise architecture frameworks.

Integration & Technical Expertise

• Clearly articulate the role of SuccessFactors within the broader ERP and enterprise application landscape, ensuring cohesive end-to-end design and data flows.

Day‑to‑Day Solution Architecture Activities

• Oversee and guide configuration design activities, ensuring configurations align with architectural principles, business requirements, and module interdependencies.
• Develop and manage configuration plans, build documentation, test plans, and technical design deliverables to support the full project lifecycle.
• Create and validate cutover strategies, including data loads, sequence planning, and solution readiness for go‑live.
• Ensure robust go‑live plans, including risk mitigation, deployment approaches, and hypercare strategies, enabling smooth transition into operational use.
• Conduct regular design reviews, issue resolution, and quality checks to maintain solution integrity throughout the implementation.

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

• Engage confidently with senior client stakeholders, influencing decisions and guiding them through the HR transformation journey.
• Lead and mentor high‑performing, cross‑functional teams, including onshore and offshore delivery, ensuring solution quality and consistency.
• Provide expert guidance on SAP SuccessFactors roadmap developments, new features, and relevant innovations across the HR technology ecosystem.

Advisory & Best Practice Guidance

• Advise clients on HR process optimisation, technology adoption, and implementation approaches.
• Offer thought leadership on emerging SAP technologies, ensuring clients adopt best‑in‑class practices.

Pre‑Sales & Collaboration

• Contribute to developing compelling RFP responses, solution proposals, and commercial inputs.
• Partner with wider Capgemini teams consulting, delivery, and industry specialists to shape holistic solutions.
• Build and continually strengthen your internal and external network across Capgemini, clients, and strategic partners.

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

• Led 3–4 full end‑to‑end SAP SuccessFactors implementations in a Solution Architect capacity, demonstrating ownership of design, integration, and delivery across the full programme lifecycle.
• Deep expertise across multiple SAP SuccessFactors modules, with a strong understanding of how HR processes interconnect across Core HR, Talent, Recruitment, Learning, Payroll, and other HR domains.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to deliver clear, concise, and compelling presentations to senior stakeholders and C‑suite leaders.
• Strong awareness of emerging technology trends, digital disruptors, and modern HR technology capabilities, with the ability to apply both existing and new technologies to shape evolving business and operating models.
• Familiarity with complementary SAP ecosystem technologies such as Qualtrics, SAP Work Zone, SAP BTP, and other employee‑experience‑enhancing solutions, with the ability to articulate how these integrate within the wider architecture.
• Proven experience leading pre‑sales activities, including solution shaping, estimation, and client presentations, clearly demonstrating the strategic and commercial value SuccessFactors brings to organisations.
• Solid understanding of product management practices, agile methodologies, and contemporary delivery frameworks, with the capability to guide agile teams on solution design choices, risk mitigation, and the management of technical and architectural debt.
• A passion for mentoring and developing talent, with a collaborative mindset and willingness to share expertise across project teams and the wider SAP Practice.

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, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. 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. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

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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