Job description

Our client, a rapidly growing multibillion dollar division of a global conglomerate, seeks a Lead Analyst Hana Cloud BI/BW. This is a newly created position, reporting to the CIO, of this dynamic organization.

Primary Responsibilities

· This position provides the functional, technical, and architectural leadership and plays an important role in evaluating and improving the design of our existing and planned Hana Cloud based SAP Business Warehouse (BW)/Business Objects (BOBJ) / Business Intelligence (BI) systems.

· Develop and maintain the overall technical architecture and standards for Business Information Warehouse and Business Objects/BI platform.

· Assess and manage BI performance optimization efforts.

· Communicates and interacts with all levels of personnel across all companies as it relates to data analytics, reporting, dashboards, and other push technologies.

· Will analyze business processes and find system based solutions, develop technical terms for system enhancements and assist in preparing test scenarios, end-user documentation, and business process procedures.

· Will contribute to ongoing system improvement efforts to include collecting requirements from business users, researching available solutions, developing and documenting conceptual design alternatives.

· Communicate effectively conceptual designs, writing technical specifications and coordinate development work with ABAP development staff, building and configuring prototypes and prototype documentation.

· Will follow the SAP application life cycle methodology when performing developmental work, and consistent with the project requirements & deliverables with SAP Solution Manager

· Promote BI within the business user community to better leverage existing BI solutions and position BI for appropriate future needs.

· Perform routine system maintenance checks and corrective actions as required

· Effectively communicate with external partners and services; provide timely responses to all inquiries and support issues

· Ensure system integrity through adherence to configuration & change request processes as defined within SAP Solution Manager and ITIL.

· In the senior module leadership position, will monitor workload, activities, & provide direction to other development staff, and staff augmentees, working both on-site and off-shore

· Position reports to the Manager, Business Development & Support

Requirements

· BA/BS in Accounting or MIS required; MS or MBA a plus

· 7+ years of experience architecting, developing and implementing SAP BW business reporting systems/solutions.

· Experience with Cloud and Hybrid Hana BW solutions.

· Experience with other Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing ETL and OLAP technologies

· Advanced knowledge of configuring BW data objects and BW Extractors from the SAP ECC 6.0 System.

· Working knowledge of SAP structures, object dependencies, and tables

· Strong expertise in BEX query development and BOBJ tools

· Strong understanding of SAP end-to-end data flows and interactions between one SAP module and others

· Familiarity with ABAP development and Web Services development

· BW integration with SAP Portals/Netweaver

· Experience in SAP BW 7.x and Business Objects XX

· A working knowledge of Solution Manager is a plus.

· Strong logical and physical system design skills

· Highly motivated self-starter and team player

· Exhibit strong technical leadership skills

· Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to express information and ideas clearly

· Excellent research and analysis skills

· Proficient in the use of MS Office: Excel, Access, Word and Project

Client is not able to provide Visa Sponsorship.

Relocation assistance is available.

Don Burch

DMB Associates

Phone: (203) 794-1474

Don@dmbassociates.net

Web: http://www.dmbassociates.net