SAP Data & Analytics Architect

Exp. Required: 12+ Year’s

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Define enterprise Data & Analytics strategy, roadmap, and architecture.

Architect solutions using SAP BDC, Datasphere, BW, SAC, Power BI, Databricks platforms

Design data ingestion, virtualization, replication, semantic modeling, and data product architectures

Establish governance, security, performance, and data quality standards

Lead AMS operations including incident management, continuous improvement, automation, and platform optimization

Drive new developments, modernization programs, PoCs, and innovation initiatives

Define reporting and analytics architecture across SAP and non-SAP reporting tools

Provide architectural guidance to business, delivery, and technical teams

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture for SAP Data & Analytics platforms, including SAP BW, SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Cloud, Power BI, BAS, and analytics-related SAP technologies.

• Define and govern data architecture standards, data models, semantic layers, integration frameworks, and reporting solutions.

• Lead solution design and architecture reviews for enhancements, projects, incidents, and change requests.

• Provide architecture guidance for data warehousing, analytics, reporting, and dashboard solutions across Tennant business processes.

• Design and optimize data integration, replication, and transformation processes between SAP and non-SAP applications.

• Ensure platform scalability, performance, data quality, security, and operational stability across the Data & Analytics landscape.

• Act as the highest level technical escalation point for complex production incidents, problem management, and root cause analysis.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, analytics modernization, and adoption of SAP data and analytics best practices

• Review and approve technical designs, development standards, and deployment plans to ensure architectural compliance.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, functional teams, AMS delivery teams, and Tennant's Data & Analytics organization to align technical solutions with business objectives.

• Lead architecture governance, participate in service reviews, and support change, release, and risk management activities.

• Mentor technical teams and provide leadership on SAP BW, Datasphere, HANA, Fiori, Power BI, and analytics technologies.

Key Skills

• SAP BW/4HANA

• SAP Datasphere

• SAP HANA Cloud Platform

• Power BI

• SAP BAS

• CDS Views & OData Services

• Data Warehousing & Data Modeling

• Analytics Architecture

• Data Integration & Governance

• AMS Support & Service Management

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

•  Strong leadership and team management capabilities.

• Experience leading SAP BASIS support and project delivery teams.

• Ability to mentor and guide junior consultants and administrators.

• Excellent stakeholder, customer, and vendor management skills.

• Strong project planning, effort estimation, and resource management experience.

• Ability to manage multiple projects, releases, and production support activities simultaneously.

• Effective risk assessment, mitigation planning, and issue resolution skills.

• Strong communication and presentation skills with business and executive stakeholders.

• Experience working in global delivery and cross-functional environments.

• Strong decision-making, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to drive operational excellence, service improvement, and automation initiatives.

Experience managing critical production incidents and ensuring SLA compliance.