SuccessFactors Employee Central Lead

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Role: SuccessFactors Employee Central Lead

Job Type: Permanent

Location: London

Ready to utilise your knowledge of SuccessFactors Employee Central?

We have an exciting role for you – SuccessFactors Employee Central Lead.

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose‑led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve – our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Gain access to endless learning opportunities.
• Lead a team and support their technical growth.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders.

The Role

As a SuccessFactors Employee Central Lead, you will be responsible for leading and managing the full lifecycle of integrations between SAP SuccessFactors and external systems, ensuring robust architecture, strong data integrity, and high performance across cloud and hybrid environments. You will play a key role in shaping EC processes, supporting implementations, and guiding customers through successful adoption and optimisation of EC functionality.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and evaluate business requirements for SuccessFactors implementation and integration.
• Oversee incident, change, and service request management, ensuring resolution within SLA timelines and alignment with ITIL methodology.
• Coordinate with vendors and technical teams for system upgrades, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and ensuring platform availability.
• Maintain up‑to‑date project documentation, validation records, and knowledge databases in alignment with customer quality standards.
• Provide regular status updates and present findings to customers, recommending service improvements and process enhancements.

Your Profile

• Minimum of one full Employee Central end‑to‑end implementation.
• Strong knowledge of Custom MDF and Standard MDF object creation, configuration UI, data models, provisioning settings, and provisioning jobs.
• Good knowledge of Position Management including position‑to‑job sync, auto‑generation of codes, custom UI, position types, and position org chart.
• Hands‑on experience with workflows, alerts, business rules, custom email notifications, and custom letter generation.
• Strong understanding of role‑based permissions, permission groups, roles, and country‑specific criteria.
• Experience with global assignments and concurrent employment.
• Good understanding of Foundation Objects and HRIS elements, HRIS sync mapping, dynamic filters, background elements, and standard elements creation.
• Excellent knowledge of Time Off and Leave of Absence configuration including time types, profiles, and absence management.
• Experience creating custom Hire templates with custom sections.
• Knowledge of Contingent Worker configuration including work orders, vendors, and workflows.
• Experience configuring Dependent Management, Addresses, Work Permit, and global/personal info blocks.
• Strong experience with data migration of foundation objects, MDF objects, and employee data.
• Hands‑on experience with cutover planning and cutover activities.
• Experience producing test strategies, data migration strategies, instance strategies, UAT plans, SIT plans, WBS, BPMLs, and project plans.
• Good knowledge of system integration testing including test scenarios, scripts, and results.
• Hands‑on experience with Theme Management, homepage customisation, people profile customisation, header/background changes.
• Experience with Configuration Transport Center, instance refresh, and release management.
• IAS/IPS configuration experience with AD Azure and IAM SSO setup.
• In‑depth configuration knowledge of Story Reports, Adhoc Reports, and Canvas Reports.
• Knowledge of Job Profile Builder, skills, and competencies framework.
• Strong understanding of Employee Central processes and industry best practices.
• Good awareness of other SuccessFactors modules such as Recruitment, Onboarding, Learning, and Compensation.
• Fluent in English, with excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Certification (EC Time‑Off Certification is a plus).

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

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