SAP HR Success Factors Technical Lead

Location: St. Petersburg

Hybrid - periodic travel to Newark, DE Must reside or be willing to relocate to TX, IL, NJ, OH, DE, MD, PA, VA, NC, GA, FL

Your role in our success:

The SAP Success Factors Technical Lead owns the end to end architecture, configuration, integration, and operations of the Success Factors platform across all modules—Employee Central, Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance & Goals, Compensation, Succession & Development, Learning, Time Tracking/EC Time, Benefit Focus, Workforce Analytics & Planning (WFA/WFP), and Employee Central Payroll. This role supervises technical/configuration teams, governs platform standards, and partners with HR and IT stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant HXM solutions that improve employee experience and business outcomes.

What

you'll be working on:
Platform Architecture & Roadmap

• Define the target architecture for Success Factors across modules and instances (Dev/Test/Prod), including configuration governance, RBP model, data privacy, and release strategy.
• Establish platform standards (naming, MDF object strategy, picklists, translations, workflows, business rules) and own the interface catalog and data contracts across HR processes.

Module Ownership (All Modules)

• Employee Central (EC):
  Data models, business rules, workflows, event reasons, Time Off/Timesheet, position/org management, and localization.
• Recruiting & Onboarding:
  Templates, candidate pipelines, forms, offer approvals, e‑signature, provisioning; onboarding data flows to EC.
• PM/GM & Compensation:
  Goal/PM templates, calibration, comp/merit/bonus cycle setup and eligibility rules.
• Succession & Development:
  Talent search, talent pools, career worksheets, CDP.
• Learning (LMS):
  Item/curricula structures, assignment profiles, content standards (SCORM/AICC/xAPI), vendor integrations.
• WFA/WFP & People Analytics (Stories/Canvas):
  Semantic models, metrics packs, stories, security, and data refresh schedules.
• Employee Central Payroll (ECP):
  Core HR payroll replication, schemas/rules oversight with partner teams, off‑cycle processing alignment.

Integration & Extensions

• Lead integrations using SAP Integration Suite (CPI), Integration Center, OData v2/v4, SFAPI (SOAP), Intelligent Services/Business Events, and SFTP.
• Architect identity and access with IAS/IPS, SSO (SAML/OAuth2), and align with enterprise identity governance.
• Orchestrate third‑party integrations (background checks, benefits, ATS/CRM, learning content, time/leave, finance) and S/4
  
  HANA/ERP HCM connectivity.
• Apply secure patterns (masking, encryption, mTLS, token‑based auth) and robust error handling, retries, and monitoring.

Data Quality, Security & Compliance

• Govern data integrity and lineage across modules; define validation and reconciliation controls.
• Enforce RBP/permission roles and DLP/PII safeguards aligned to GDPR/CCPA and industry standards.
• Oversee data migration (EC and module cutovers), audit readiness, and retention policies.

Release, Testing & Operations

• Own biannual release impact assessments, regression test planning, and enablement with HR and IT.
• Implement test automation and CI/CD where feasible; manage Configuration Transport (Manage Configuration Transport/CTC) and instance promotions.
• Establish monitoring/alerting (e.g., SAP Cloud ALM), SLA reporting, and L2/L3 incident/problem management.

Leadership, Delivery & Financials

• Supervise, mentor, and upskill internal and partner teams; conduct design reviews and technical workshops with cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Drive project planning and budgeting; manage vendor/partner delivery quality.
• Communicate technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders and translate business needs into scalable designs.

Where you'll be working...

• Hybrid with periodic travel to Newark, DE (typically ~2 weeks…