Deployment Lead at Accenture in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Deployment Lead Location: Mumbai Project Role : Deployment Lead Project Role Description : Plan and lead the execution of a comprehensive deployment plan, including work planning, scheduling, budgeting, metrics, training, pilots, and resources. Collaborate with all project teams to manage interdependencies, ensure alignment between all deployment-related activities, and monitor & control progress through the deployment plan. Must have skills : SAP Successfactors Integrations Technical Good to have skills : NA Minimum 7.5 year(s) of experience is required Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education Summary Build AI native, integration-first HR ecosystems around SAP SuccessFactors by combining deep SuccessFactors integration expertise with agentic AI architectures (LLMs + tools + retrieval + evaluation). The role focuses on designing and delivering reliable, governed, event-driven integrations across SuccessFactors modules and enterprise systems, and augmenting them with intelligent integration capabilities such as automated mapping, anomaly detection, self-healing runbooks, and conversational integration operations—without training foundation models from scratch. Core Responsibilities 1) Integration Architecture & Delivery (SuccessFactors Core) Design and implement end-to-end SuccessFactors integrations across HR domains (employee lifecycle, organizational data, onboarding, learning, recruiting, payroll-adjacent flows). Build and support integrations using standard SuccessFactors integration approaches (API-based, file-based, event-triggered, scheduled/batch), aligned to enterprise integration patterns. Define integration blueprints including interface contracts, payload schemas, transformations, error handling, retries, and reconciliation approaches. 2) Enterprise Connectivity & Middleware Engineering Engineer integrations between SuccessFactors and enterprise systems (ERP, payroll, identity & access, finance, time systems, third-party HR apps, data platforms). Build middleware orchestrations using common enterprise capabilities (routing, transformation, enrichment, correlation IDs, secure connectivity, throttling). Enable secure transport patterns (SFTP/HTTPS), credential management, certificate handling, and environment promotion across landscapes. 3) Event-Driven HR Master Data & Synchronization Implement event-driven integration approaches for employee and organizational changes, ensuring systems remain consistent with minimal latency and controlled data distribution. Establish canonical data modeling and semantic mapping practices to reduce duplication, minimize point-to-point sprawl, and improve maintainability. Drive data minimization and privacy-aware integration design (share only what is needed, where it is needed). 4) AI Native Integration Intelligence (Agentic Integration Layer) Build integration agents that can interpret integration intent, generate/validate mappings, and propose transformation logic using tool-based orchestration (schema tools, metadata tools, test harnesses). Implement retrieval-grounded integration assistance: the system retrieves interface specs, mapping rules, runbooks, and past incident patterns to produce grounded outputs (no free-form guessing). Create copilot in the run experiences for integration operations: conversational troubleshooting, guided remediation steps, automated log summarization, and impact analysis—backed by verifiable evidence. 5) Quality Engineering, Testing & Evaluation Loops Build automated testing strategies for integrations: contract tests, schema validation, payload regression suites, replay testing, and environment parity checks. Implement offline and online evaluation loops for AI behaviors: golden test sets for mappings and transformations, hallucination checks, grounding rates, and safety regressions. Define release gates for integration changes and AI prompt/tool updates to prevent silent production degradation. 6) Observability, Reliability & Run Excellence Establish observability for integrations and AI components: structured logs, traces, metrics, correlation, and alerting across the entire integration chain. Engineer robust failure-mode handling: retries, fallbacks, circuit breakers, DLQs/error queues, and reconciliation dashboards. Build AI-assisted incident response patterns (triage, root-cause clustering, remediation recommendations) with strict access controls and human-in-the-loop confirmations. 7) Governance, Security & Responsible AI Enforce enterprise governance for data privacy, authorization boundaries, and least-privilege access—especially for sensitive HR attributes. Implement responsible AI guardrails for integration agents: tool permissions, action boundaries, redaction rules, and approval workflows for high-risk operations. Maintain auditability across integration actions and AI-generated decisions (who/what/why/when), suitable for compliance needs. Primary Skills (AI Native Must Have) Strong hands-on expertise in SAP SuccessFactors technical integrations (design, build, troubleshoot, operate). Solid understanding of enterprise integration fundamentals: APIs, payload formats, transformations, scheduling, eventing, secure transport, and monitoring. Hands-on capability with LLM-integrated workflows: tool-calling orchestration, retrieval-grounding, prompt/templates, and evaluation harnesses. Engineering discipline: clean implementation, automated testing, CI/CD mindset, and production reliability practices. Secondary / Strongly Beneficial Skills Experience with integration middleware and iFlow-style orchestration patterns. HR domain familiarity: employee master data, org structures, time/absence, onboarding, learning, recruiting, and payroll-adjacent data flows. Data modeling practices for canonical HR entities and semantic consistency across systems. Experience with secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and enterprise security controls in integration landscapes. What This Role Does Not Center On Training or fine-tuning foundation models from scratch. AI-assisted only integration delivery this role owns the AI behavior (grounding, evaluation, safety boundaries, observability) as part of the integration solution. Value Delivered Faster, safer SuccessFactors integration delivery through agentic automation (mapping generation, test creation, runbook-driven remediation). Higher trust and lower operational cost via grounded troubleshooting and measurable AI evaluation loops. Scalable HR integration ecosystems that avoid brittle point-to-point growth, enabling modernization and cloud-first adoption. Additional Information A 15 years full time education is required. 15 years full time education About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us atwww.accenture.com Equal Employment Opportunity Statement