Responsibilities:
- Requirements & Issue Resolution: Collaborate with business and IT teams to understand and address SAP BW-related requirements and issues.
- BW Application Management: Play a key role in the analysis, troubleshooting, maintenance, and enhancement of SAP Business Warehouse applications and front-end reports.
- Functional Specification Design: Work closely with business users to gather requirements and design functional specifications for data warehousing and reporting solutions.
- Impact Analysis: Maintain a clear understanding of the potential impacts of proposed solutions on other areas of the system and/or project.
- Architecture & Security Adherence: Implement and ensure adherence to architecture guidelines, security standards, and best practices in SAP BW solutions.
- Best Practices Promotion: Define and promote best practices for SAP BW and BI solutions.
- KPI Alignment: Ensure BW solutions align with major stakeholders KPI standards and long-term roadmaps.
- System Collaboration: Collaborate with the administration team for system maintenance, upgrades, and performance tuning.
- ABAP Debugging: Perform BW-ABAP Debugging and code changes.
Data Quality Checks: Perform regular data quality checks, including:
- Process Chain monitoring
- Data reconciliation
- Monthly activities such as scheduled data uploads
- Daily data uploads
- Housekeeping and system maintenance
- Year-end activities, including bulk data uploads
- Handling service requests, including master data corrections
- Managing Change Requests (CRs)
- Incident management and troubleshooting issues efficiently
On-Call Support:
- Provide on-call and ad-hoc support based on business needs.
Required Skills:
Domain Knowledge:
- Intermediate functional knowledge of enterprise modules such as Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain Logistics, Quality, Customer Relationship Management, and Project Management.
Technical:
- Strong proficiency in SAP BW (BW 7.x, BW4HANA, BW on HANA) and reporting solutions.
- Strong capabilities in BW reporting, extraction, and modeling, with a background in end-to-end implementations.
- Expertise in ABAP for BW, including Start, End, Expert, and Field-level routines, as well as debugging skills.
- Proficiency in gathering requirements for BI reporting solutions, including data visualization.
- Hands-on skills in BEx queries, including variables, customer exits, filters, conditions, and selections.
- Ability to document technical designs and BI solutions in high-level and detailed design documents.
- Good understanding of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and various SAP BusinessObjects (BO) tools; ability to collaborate with BO consultants effectively.
- Intermediate knowledge of databases and integration tools.
- Proficiency in SAP analysis for office.
- Knowledge of SAP SAC Stories and Models.
Interpersonal Communication:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Effective communication skills to bridge gaps between business users, developers, and IT support teams.
- Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively within a team environment.
Certifications (Preferred):