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Job Title: 7145 - SAP Business Warehouse (BW) Engineer
Overview:
Seeking a highly skilled and experienced Business Warehouse (BW) Engineer to support and enhance enterprise SAP analytics and data warehousing environments. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in SAP BW on HANA, SAP BPC, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Web Intelligence (Webi), ABAP, SAP Datasphere, SAP S/4 HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning. This role requires the ability to analyze existing data architectures, design optimized solutions, and support modern analytics capabilities across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Migration Path Analysis & Recommendations
- Evaluate current SAP BW on HANA codebase and architecture to identify optimal migration paths to SAP S/4 HANA or SAP Datasphere.
- Provide technical feasibility assessments, risk analysis, and migration roadmaps ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
HANA Calculated Views & Data Modeling
- Design and implement HANA calculated views optimized for reporting and performance.
- Develop and maintain BW and HANA data objects/models supporting key reporting domains including Planning, Actuals, Labor, and Unit Cost.
Requirements Gathering & Impact Assessment
- Collaborate with business users and stakeholders to define requirements, conduct impact analyses, and recommend enhancements or migrations.
- Identify and mitigate potential technical risks.
Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
- Create standardized documentation including process flows, technical specifications, and configuration guides.
- Support knowledge transfer for long-term maintainability.
Metadata & Governance
- Develop and maintain metadata artifacts such as data dictionaries and glossaries to support data governance and consistency.
Monitoring & Performance
- Implement automated monitoring solutions to track data flow execution and system performance.
- Establish alert mechanisms for issue detection and resolution.
Data Flow Migration
- Migrate legacy BW data flows (e.g., 3.X to 7.5) with an emphasis on data integrity and minimal downtime.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience delivering data architecture, engineering, or orchestration solutions on SAP BW on HANA.
- Proven experience developing deliverables using ABAP programming.
- Hands-on experience with SAP BPC reports/datasets supporting downstream reporting.
- Expertise in HANA calculated views integrated with Power BI.
- Experience developing views within CCS, Work Management, Supply Chain, and Finance modules.
- Demonstrated ability to improve performance and reduce technical debt through code optimization.
- Experience with migration projects transitioning from BW on HANA to SAP Datasphere.
Additional Requirements (3+ years)
- Working knowledge of ODP (Operational Data Provisioning) framework and SLT replication.
- Experience creating embedded analytics reports in SAP Fiori S/4HANA.
- Development of S/4HANA CDS (Core Data Services) views optimized for real-time analytics.
Preferred Skills
- Strong understanding of security and authorization controls for CDS views and analytics.
- Proficiency with SAP Datasphere for cross-landscape data modeling.
- Familiarity with SAP Analytics Cloud and Databricks.
- Ability to recommend process and architecture improvements for long-term data landscape scalability.
- Experience working in Agile/SCRUM environments.
- Familiarity with Power BI visualizations built on HANA views.