SuccessFactors Architect

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural integrity of Lear’s core workforce data model, including person, employment, job, position, and organization structures, ensuring consistent downstream consumption across access management, reporting, integrations, and enterprise platforms.
• Define the architectural direction for Employee Central and related SuccessFactors capabilities, including cross-functional design dependencies, master data integrity, workflow frameworks, role-based permissions, and integration patterns.
• Govern platform design standards, business rules, workflow frameworks, and configuration patterns to support global process consistency and sustainable platform evolution.
• Define and govern Role-Based Permissions, sensitive data access patterns, and control design in partnership with Information Security, IAM, and audit stakeholders.
• Lead architecture review and change governance for platform enhancements, vendor releases, and regional requests, ensuring design decisions are documented, traceable, and aligned to global standards.
• Establish integration design patterns and standards for inbound, outbound, batch, and event-based interfaces, with emphasis on resiliency, monitoring, security, and operational supportability.
• Partner across HR, HRIS, Enterprise Architecture, IAM, Information Security, Integration, reporting, and regional business stakeholders to align platform design with business priorities and enterprise standards.
• Serve as the escalation point and decision authority for platform design disputes, exception requests, and competing regional or business requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in HR technology, with significant hands-on SAP SuccessFactors architecture experience in a complex global enterprise.
• Deep expertise in Employee Central, with familiarity across other SuccessFactors capabilities and cross-functional design dependencies, including master data integrity, workflow frameworks, role-based permissions, and integration patterns.
• Strong expertise in enterprise-grade integrations using OData, REST, Integration Center, Compound Employee, and event-based interface patterns, including payroll and time and attendance integrations.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, sensitive data controls, audit readiness, and access governance within SuccessFactors.
• Experience acting as a technical design authority who can drive standardization where appropriate while accommodating necessary local requirements.
• Experience leading design through implementation partners and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Ability to communicate architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to technical and executive audiences.

Bonus if You Have

• Experience with SAP HCM / ERP HCM in legacy on-prem environments
• Experience supporting global HR platforms with regional compliance and localization requirements
• Strong HR data governance and master data management experience