Senior SuccessFactors Talent Acquisition & Employee Central Analyst

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced SAP SuccessFactors professional to support and optimize Talent Acquisition and Employee Central capabilities. This role provides hands-on configuration, integration support, testing, release support, and stakeholder partnership across Recruiting Management, Recruiting Marketing, Onboarding 2.0, Job Profile Builder, and Employee Central.

Key Responsibilities:

Talent Acquisition Configuration and Support:

• Configure and support RCM, RMK, CSB, ONB 2.0, and JPB, including requisition templates, candidate profiles, offer approval workflows, job posting templates, job board posting behavior, career site updates, business rules, notifications, permissions, and candidate-facing experience.
• Make and validate configuration updates through XML, Manage Templates, Manage Recruiting Settings, Admin Center tools, Career Site Builder, and related SuccessFactors configuration areas.
• Update and troubleshoot job requisition templates, offer detail templates, application templates, email templates, field permissions, picklists, route maps, interview scheduling configuration, and posting-related rules.
• Support Recruiting Marketing and career site maintenance, including landing page content, job category pages, microsite or employer brand updates, site components, search filters, and candidate conversion improvements.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, HR, HRIS, IT, and delivery teams to gather requirements, evaluate options, and deliver scalable recruiting and onboarding solutions.
• Support enhancements, incidents, releases, testing, deployment, and production operations.

Employee Central Configuration and Cross-Module Support:

• Configure and support Employee Central foundation and employee data needed for recruiting, onboarding, hire, rehire, position, job, workflow, and downstream processes.
• Configure and troubleshoot Employee Central business rules, workflows, event reasons, hire and rehire logic, position/job data dependencies, propagation rules, and data validation logic supporting recruiting and onboarding processes.
• Analyze and resolve cross-module dependencies, data quality issues, security needs, business rules, and process design gaps.
• Support EC data loads, imports, mass changes, validation, and troubleshooting as needed.

Integrations, Data, Security, and Reporting:

• Support Integration Center interfaces, scheduled jobs, data loads, candidate and new-hire updates, EC data movement, and downstream integrations.
• Analyze XML, template, field mapping, business rule, API, and integration-related issues that impact requisitions, postings, offers, onboarding records, employee data, or downstream systems.
• Troubleshoot interface failures, mapping errors, data quality issues, reporting gaps, and downstream impacts with technical teams and vendors.
• Understand and troubleshoot downstream impacts to Employee Central Payroll, including employee master data, job and compensation data, organizational assignments, time-related data, and payroll-relevant integration dependencies.
• Ensure data integrity, role-based access, privacy, audit readiness, and accurate SuccessFactors reporting.

Business Partnership and Solution Delivery:

• Translate business requirements into functional designs, configuration decisions, test scenarios, deployment plans, and support procedures.
• Lead solution walkthroughs, readiness reviews, and design discussions with HR, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies, and decisions while recommending practical process and system improvements.

Testing, Release, and Operational Support:

• Develop test plans and scripts, coordinate SIT/UAT, assess SuccessFactors releases, and track defects through closure.
• Support deployment, cutover, hypercare, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and documented resolution.
• Maintain functional designs, configuration workbooks, test scripts, release notes, user guides, and support documentation.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on SAP SuccessFactors experience across Recruiting, Onboarding, and Employee Central configuration/support.
• Deep hands-on experience configuring SuccessFactors Recruiting Management and Recruiting Marketing, including XML-based requisition and application templates, job posting templates, offer templates, field permissions, route maps, email templates, and career site configuration.
• Ability to design, configure, test, and troubleshoot business rules across Recruiting, Onboarding, Employee Central, workflows, alerts, notifications, data propagation, validations, and hire/rehire processes.
• Strong working knowledge of Career Site Builder, Recruiting Marketing site maintenance, job search configuration, landing pages, branding components, and candidate experience updates.
• Comfortable reviewing technical configuration details, identifying root cause, documenting changes, coordinating with SAP or implementation partners, and moving updates through development, test, and production environments.
• Strong knowledge of RCM, RMK, ONB 2.0, CSB, JPB, EC foundation objects, employee data, workflows, business rules, imports, and role-based permissions.
• Understanding of Recruiting-to-Onboarding-to-EC data flow, hire/rehire processes, cross-module dependencies, and downstream impacts.
• Experience with Integration Center, data imports, scheduled jobs, integration monitoring, troubleshooting, testing, releases, and production support.
• Working knowledge of Employee Central Payroll touchpoints and ability to assess how EC, recruiting, onboarding, business rule, template, or integration changes may affect payroll processing, replication, validation, and downstream controls.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAP SuccessFactors certification in Recruiting, Onboarding, and/or Employee Central.
• Knowledge of People Analytics, Story Reports, release management, change control, data privacy, audit support, and Agile delivery.
• Experience supporting global recruiting, onboarding, and Employee Central processes in a GCC, shared services, or global support model.
• Good-to-have experience with SmartRecruiters integration, data migration, recruiting process alignment, or future coexistence with SuccessFactors Recruiting.

Success Measures:

• Reliable delivery of Talent Acquisition and Employee Central enhancements, releases, integrations, and production support.
• Stable data flow from recruiting and onboarding into Employee Central and connected systems.
• Improved stakeholder communication, documentation, data integrity, security, user experience, and operational readiness.