7145 - SAP Business Warehouse (BW) Engineer (Must Reside in Sacramento to be considered)

  • Sacramento, CA
  • Posted 2 days ago | Updated 2 days ago

Overview

On Site
$50+
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Agile
Analytics
Authorization
Business Objects
Cloud Computing
Code Optimization
Core Data
Data Architecture
Data Flow
Data Governance
Data Integrity
Data Modeling
Data Warehouse
Databricks
Documentation
Embedded Systems
Finance
Impact Analysis
Knowledge Transfer
Management
Meta-data Management
Microsoft Power BI
Migration
Orchestration
Process Flow
Provisioning
Real-time
Replication
Reporting
Requirements Elicitation
Risk Analysis
Roadmaps
SAP
SAP ABAP
SAP BI
SAP BPC
SAP Fiori
SAP HANA
SLT
Sap Businessobjects
Scalability
Scrum
Specification Gathering
Supply Chain Management
WEBI
Web Intelligence

Job Details

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.

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