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Systems Engineer- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

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  • Bangalore, India
  • IT & Digital Solutions
  • Full time

Job Description

  • Job ID: 247151

  • Date posted: 06/05/2025

    • Who you are

    Here at IKEA, we are looking to hire passionate engineers, excited about technology and innovative ways of working to shape the future of IKEA. In People Planning you will be part of a team that operates continuously develops our solutions used in 20+ countries as well as implement solutions for new countries. With several solutions, it requires the team to develop country specific APIs to our library in order to fulfill our decoupled architecture, thus we safeguard the standard and parameterization for the new landscape.

    WHO YOU ARE

    You have a passion for technology, you welcome change and you love to learn. As a person you are innovative and work towards putting modern architecture and requirements into place. It suits you to work cross functionally both independently and interdependently, with the support of a vast software engineering network and agile methods.
    The IKEA culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com.

    • Formal qualifications in computer science, software engineering, or any engineering equivalent
    • Minimum 5 years of professional experience as Success Factor software engineer with similar level of experience in the specific tech stack for the area
    • Experience of working in agile/iterative software development teams with a DevOps Mindset and with an emphasis on self-organization and delivery to agreed commitments
    • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
    • Preferred: Knowledge of IKEA Brand, culture, values, and way of working

    This comes natural to you:

    • Ability to encourage simplicity, efficiency, ownership and accountability
    • Ability to actively acquire new knowledge and skills and champion new methods, digital systems and processes to improve performance
    • Ability to change direction as appropriate based on new ideas, approaches, and strategies
    • Ability to collaborate with others (including virtual) such as team members, stakeholders and suppliers to achieve goals
    • Good ability to communicate technical concepts and processes clearly at an appropriate level to team members, stakeholders and suppliers
    • Ability to understand the complexity of IKEA business and the role of technology as an integrated part of the business

    A day in your life with us

    • Certified Employee Central (Mandatory) practitioner with an experience of 3-5 years in Employee central and must have worked in at least 1 end to end SuccessFactors implementation.
    • Good knowledge around Process designs and Personas of SuccessFactors Employee Central Module.
    • Strong configuration skills around Core EC functionalities like – Business rules, MDF’s and FO’s, Associations, Custom UIs, Alerts and
    Notifications, Position Management, Data models, Configure People Profile, Picklists, Translations etc.
    • Expertise in understanding the data flow across the different SuccessFactors modules and integration with third-party systems (eg : ADP, Benefit provider etc )
    • Global and Regional Core EC process knowledge.
    • Actively participated in Design, Playback and UAT workshops.
    • Supported the Data Migration workstream of Employee central including key activities around Data Templates preparation, transformation, validation, and Data load.
    • Good Communication and Team Player.
    • Understands requirements gathering and setting expectations with Business and Product stakeholders. Also demonstrates personal accountability for keeping delivery on track.
    • Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business.
    • Knowledge in Success factor API's and integrating data to external clouds such as GCP.
    • Demonstrates strong commitment to personal learning and development.

    Together as a team

    Our team isn’t just a bunch of people stuck together. We come from diverse backgrounds, coming together in the mission of creating a better everyday life for the many people on the Ingka web. In a true cross functional team with designers, data analysts, engineering manager, agile coach, and product owner we make this a reality.

    The Ingka culture and values are very much a part of our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with Ingka it’s important for us that you share our values! You can read more regarding our values and life at Ingka on our website https://join.ingka.com & https://www.ikea.com

    But most of all, what we really want, is great people to make up diverse and fun teams that share our values and push us all to be our best!

    Questions and support? Let's connect!

    Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don't apply for jobs unless they're 100% "qualified". If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application.

    From: "Why Women Don't Apply for Jobs Unless They're 100% Qualified" by Tara Sophia Mohr, August 2014"

    Your internal title in the organization will be Systems Engineer. This position is placed in Bangalore, India. The selection process will take place continuously. In this recruitment there is no international relocation support provided by IKEA.

    Please submit with your application in English. Note that we cannot process any applications through email.




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