SAP SuccessFactors Solution Architect
1-Year Contract | Enterprise Transformation Programme
Kerry Consulting is partnering with a large, complex enterprise organisation embarking on a major SAP transformation journey. We are seeking an experienced SAP SuccessFactors Solution Architect to play a critical role in shaping and governing the end-to-end SAP architecture across S/4HANA RISE and SuccessFactors, with a strong focus on Clean Core principles, fit-to-standard adoption, and long-term architectural integrity.
This is a senior, high-impact contract role suited to architects who operate confidently at both strategic and delivery governance levels, and who are comfortable challenging System Integrators to ensure business-led, future-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end SAP solution architecture across S/4HANA RISE and SuccessFactors, ensuring alignment with the organisation's target operating model, enterprise architecture standards, and long-term digital roadmap - avoiding a like-for-like reimplementation of legacy SAP ECC.
- Serve as the architectural authority, leading and guiding the System Integrator through the end-to-end design phase, with particular ownership of SuccessFactors solution design, ensuring the proposed design delivers true business capability, scalability, compliance, and sustainability before handover to the SI for build execution.
- Translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant SAP designs, validating that the SI's functional and technical designs balance fit-to-standard adoption, extensibility, controls, reporting, and long-term maintainability.
- Review, challenge, and formally approve SI design artefacts (including functional specifications, integration designs, security design, and data models), ensuring architectural integrity prior to build commencement.
- Establish and govern architectural design decisions, maintaining a structured architecture decision log that documents options considered, rationale, trade-offs, deviations from standard, and downstream impacts - particularly across SuccessFactors modules and their integration points.
- Define the enterprise reporting and analytics architecture, ensuring that both S/4HANA and SuccessFactors data models support regulatory reporting, management insights, and integration with enterprise data platforms.
Key Requirements
- 10+ years of SAP experience, with at least 4 years focused on S/4HANA and SuccessFactors solution architecture and design governance in complex enterprise environments, including leading System Integrators through design phases prior to build.
- Strong hands-on understanding of SAP Activate methodology, fit-to-standard delivery, and Clean Core principles, with demonstrated experience steering SIs toward optimal design decisions rather than default customisation.
- Proven experience leading and reviewing SuccessFactors functional and technical design, ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, compliance, and alignment with enterprise standards before SI build execution.
- Proven track record of governing System Integrators and influencing senior stakeholders through clear architectural direction and decision-making.
- SAP and/or enterprise architecture certifications (e.g. S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, BTP, TOGAF) are advantageous.
To Apply
Please submit your resume to Tahmid Bin Zafar at [Confidential Information], quoting the job title and reference number TZ35183. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Registration No: R1106832
Licence No: 16S8060
Desired Skills and Experience
10+ years of SAP experience, with at least 4 years focused on S/4HANA and SuccessFactors solution architecture and design governance in complex enterprise environments, including leading System Integrators through design phases prior to build.
Proven experience leading and reviewing SuccessFactors functional and technical design, ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, compliance, and alignment with enterprise standards before SI build execution.
