SAP BW Developer

Position: SAP BW Developer

Location: Wilmington, DE – Onsite

Type of Employment: 12+ Months Contract

Role Description:

• At least 10-15 years of experience in Analysis, Design and Development of various SAP Data Warehousing projects
• Strong experience in documenting business requirements, functional, technical specifications, and test cases.
• Capable of Leading a team of 5-8 developers as well as working as a Team Member with minimum supervision.
• Flexible to adapt to any new environment with a strong desire to keep pace with the latest technologies.
• Enterprising / Innovative and creative with Strong Communication and Interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with end-users, managers, and technical personnel with ability to handle and advise client confidently.

Program Leadership & Governance

• Define the program roadmap, milestones, critical paths, and delivery plans for the Lakehouse implementation.
• Establish governance structures: Steering committees, working groups, RAID logs, communication cadences, status reporting.
• Drive decision-making, risk mitigation, and scope management aligned with business priorities.
• Manage dependencies across data engineering, cloud infrastructure, analytics, and security teams.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for executive sponsors, technical leads, and business domain owners.
• Translate business priorities into technical deliverables; ensure business readiness and adoption.
• Facilitate collaboration between platform engineering, data engineering, PMO, and operations.
• Communicate program updates, blockers, risks, and achievements with clarity and frequency.

Delivery Management

• Track and manage budget, licensing/DBU consumption, and forecasted spend.
• Monitor delivery KPIs, SLAs, and overall program health.
• Ensure readiness for cutovers, releases, and environment promotions.

Technical Program Oversight (Not hands-on, but requires strong technical fluency)

• Understand SAP reporting architecture, components, and system integrations (Risk, Compliance & Quality Assurance
• Maintain and manage RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions).
• Implement post-implementation review, lessons learned, and continuous improvement cycles.

Key requirements:

• Strong Analytics/Data warehouse experience in complex environments building end to end Analytics solution using SAP BW and SAP HANA modelling where consuming data from extraction using BODS/SLT from both SAP and Non-SAP sources.
• Experience in supporting SAP BW on HANA specific modeling like using LSA++, Composite Providers and exposing BW objects in HANA Views, Advanced DSO etc.
• Must have implemented 2 to 3 BW Implementation projects using real time replication of SAP SLT with SAP ECC.
• Expertise in BW modelling, generic and standard extractors
• Hands on in ABAP for BW – expert understanding of all kinds of routines
• Familiarity with Native HANA MODELLING - Designing Views (Attribute View, Analytic View, Calculation View), Stacked Calculation Views, Views that needs multiple table functions, counters, Restricted and Calculated measures, input parameters, filters, transparent filters. Debugging Views. HANA Modeling using SQL Script and CESQL scripting. Also trained on XSJS, OData, web services, SDI/SDA.
• Expert in BEx reporting, (Variables, CKF, RKF, custom variables etc.) · Understand the Transport mechanism using CHARM or similar tool. · Strong reporting knowledge using Analytical tools like SAC, Tableau, BOBJ etc.
• Strong Working Experience of SAP BW on HANA, Native HANA, SAP ECC Functional (FI, OTC, WHM etc.) is a must.
• Working knowledge of S/4HANA or BW/4HANA is preferable.
• Defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing, and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementation.
• Experienced in using Performance Tuning techniques, system optimization, and business process improvement in SAP BW
• Work in aggressive delivery model in agile mode.