SAP Replication Specialist

Role & responsibilities

• Support SuccessFactors Employee Central to SAP S/4HANA Payroll replication.

• Update configurations and validate replication of:

• Personal and biographical data

• Employment and job information

• Organizational assignments

• Compensation and pay components

• Work schedules and time-related data

• Bank, tax, benefits, and payroll-relevant information

• Hire, rehire, transfer, promotion, termination, and organizational-change events

• Map Employee Central data to SAP HCM and S/4HANA Payroll structures, including relevant infotypes, personnel actions, wage types, organizational objects, and cost centers.

• Configure and monitor middleware integrations using SAP Integration Suite/CPI or the applicable integration framework.

• Implement or Update Business Add-ins (BADIs) to support business requirements.

• Analyze replication errors, interface failures, data inconsistencies, and rejected employee records.

• Lead root-cause analysis across Employee Central, middleware, and S/4HANA Payroll.

• Validate employee and organizational data after replication into S/4HANA.

• Support payroll-relevant integration for:

• Time management

• Benefits

• Payroll control records

• Costing and Finance

• Banks and payment providers

• Third-party applications

• Define technical specifications for enhancements, mappings, validations, and error-handling processes.

• Lead unit, integration, regression, parallel, user acceptance, and payroll validation testing.

• Perform data reconciliation between Employee Central and S/4HANA Payroll.

• Support production incident resolution.

• Maintain configuration workbooks, mapping documents, interface specifications, test scripts, and support procedures.

• Collaborate with HR, Payroll, Finance, Integration, Security, and technical development teams.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP HCM/S/4HANA Payroll.

• Demonstrated experience delivering or supporting EC-to-S/4HANA Payroll replication.

• Strong understanding of:

• Employee Central data model

• Employment and job information

• Effective-dated transactions

• Employee Central business rules and workflows

• SAP HCM personnel administration

• Infotypes and personnel actions

• Organizational management

• Payroll-relevant master data

• Cost center and organizational assignment

• Hands-on experience with SAP Integration Suite/CPI or comparable SAP integration tooling.

• SAP ABAP Hands-on coding expert to update or implement BADIs or S/4HANA enhancements.

• Experience troubleshooting interfaces, replication queues, middleware messages, and payroll master-data errors.

• Strong knowledge of employee lifecycle events and their downstream payroll impact.

• Experience creating functional specifications, mapping documents, and test scenarios.

• Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.