Business Intelligence Lead

Position: Permanent

Experience: 8–10 Years

Location: Bangalore / Chennai

Work Mode: Hybrid

Shift: Primarily General Shift, willing to work UK Shift timings

Key Skills: BI, IBM Cognos, Tableau, SAP HANA

About the Role

The BI Lead will support a strategic SAP HANA to Snowflake Data Platform Modernization initiative. The role requires expertise in Business Intelligence, enterprise reporting, semantic-layer modeling, and analytics platforms.

The position involves assessing the existing IBM Cognos and Tableau BI landscape, identifying report dependencies, validating semantic-layer compatibility, and defining the reporting migration strategy. It also requires collaboration with business stakeholders, Data Architects, SAP HANA SMEs, Data Engineers, and Program Managers.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Assess the existing BI landscape covering IBM Cognos, Tableau, dashboards, reports, and semantic models.
• Analyze report dependencies on SAP HANA tables, views, Calculation Views, and stored procedures.
• Perform impact analysis for reports and dashboards affected by migration.
• Evaluate Cognos Framework Manager models, Tableau data sources, and semantic layers for Snowflake compatibility.
• Define report migration, validation, and reconciliation strategies.
• Develop report inventory, dependency matrices, and migration sequencing plans.
• Validate business KPIs, metrics, calculations, and reporting logic between source and target platforms.
• Assess report performance and recommend optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, SAP HANA SMEs, and Data Engineers.
• Facilitate business workshops and validate migration readiness.
• Prepare technical documentation, assessment reports, and executive presentations.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and provide technical guidance to BI/reporting teams.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with IBM Cognos Analytics
• Cognos Framework Manager
• Tableau Desktop / Server
• Strong SQL
• Semantic-layer modeling
• Dashboard development and enterprise reporting
• Report dependency analysis and impact assessment
• Reporting migration projects
• SAP HANA
• Enterprise Data Warehousing
• Snowflake
• Data validation and reconciliation
• Report performance tuning
• Business KPI validation
• Jira and Confluence
• Agile methodology
• Strong stakeholder management, presentation, analytical, and communication skills

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.