British CouncilHiring for Lead – SAP Application Integration at Noida, Uttar Pradesh Full Time

Location: Noida, South Asia, IN

Company: British Council

The British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education and the English language.

We work in two ways – directly with individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for millions of people all over the world. We help young people to gain the skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. We support them to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications. Our work in arts and culture stimulates creative expression and exchange and nurtures creative enterprise. We connect the best of the UK with the world and the best of the world with the UK.

These connections lead to an understanding of each other’s strengths and of the challenges and values that we share. This builds trust between people in the UK and other nations which endures even when official relations may be strained. We work on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2019-20 we connected with 80 million people directly and with 791 million overall, including online and through our broadcasts and publications.

Job Title: Lead – SAP Application Integration

Purpose of job:
Lead – SAP Application Integration is a crucial role in GIS to help support and manage integrations using SAP/other middleware and is responsible for the integration design and how the data flows between various systems and modules.

Working closely with our customers to deliver functional support, analysis, configuration/change and continuous improvement, lead consultant is responsible for ensuring that system integration functionality is available and current to meet the business needs across functions (like HR, FI etc.) using SAP applications/middleware’s.

Role context

Manage support, change and continuous improvement related to integrations associated with SAP Applications / Middleware like SuccessFactors (MyHR) or any other tool / applications.

Responsible for understanding existing integrated HR business processes and supporting system functionality. This position requires sound customer service, project management skills, system enhancement activities, end-user training and production support tasks. Manage SAP system/application configuration and development of new integration enhancements through test and system validation.

Main opportunities/challenges for this role

Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:
Assist solution architect in the designing, implementation planning, fit analysis, testing rollout and post-implementation support of all integrations linked to SAP Applications like SuccessFactors EC rollout plus other associated applications.

Work alongside GIS with inputs from business team like MyHR/HRIS, to ensure the solutions proposed align with business requirements & existing system configuration.

Document all implementation plans and ensure the correct sign offs are taken.

Support with the handover to the Operations team as part of knowledge transfer and upskilling for new resources

Responsible for the Quality Assurance of the implementation design across SAP Application integration functionalities with SAP SuccessFactors, Recruitment, Learning Management System, C4C etc.

Will be responsible for implementation data flow between SAP Applications like SAP SuccessFactors – EC and other business applications/systems

Will work closely to integrate the various SAP modules

Should have functional understanding of components around HR/other functions for better alignment of integration across different systems

Qualifications

Graduate/Post Graduate in any discipline.

Role specific knowledge and experience

Experience of managing small technically oriented teams.

Good Communication skills.

Experience of working in a complex, global organisation.

Broad knowledge of operational FI/HR processes.

Knowledge of integration platforms

Technical experience with implementation knowledge in relevant work areas (Integrations of SAP systems)

Should have experience on web services and API’s. Should have an experience on SuccessFactors Integration Center to build, deploy, and monitor simple file-based integrations to third parties.

Experience to build and support integrations using SAP middleware like CPI (Cloud Platform Integration), PO (Process Orchestration) etc.

Experience of operationally supporting core HRIS, learning management and e-recruitment systems.

Experience of supporting and/or implementing SaaS HR systems (ideally SAP SuccessFactors)

Further Information

Pay Band – 7

Contract Type – Indefinite

Department/Country- GIS/ India – Noida

Closing Date (Time) – 17th May 22 (IST -23:59)

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Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

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