Position:
Senior SAP BI/BW Architect
Location:
Huntsville, Alabama
Duration:
Perm / Direct Hire
Pay
:
Best Market Price
Job
Description:
The SR BI/BW Architect provides functional, technical and
architectural leadership and plays an important role in evaluating and
improving the design of our existing and planned SAP Business Warehouse
(BW)/Business Objects (BOBJ) / Business Intelligence (BI) systems. Leads
full-lifecycle Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing projects.
Experience Required:
1. 5+ years of experience architecting, developing and
implementing SAP BW business reporting systems/solutions.
2. Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, data
warehousing concepts and methodologies.
3. Ability to gather business requirements and translate
them to technical requirements/solution design.
4. Strong understanding and experience with at least one
front-end reporting and analytical tool (Business Objects InfoView/Webi
desired).
5. Advanced knowledge of configuring BW data objects.
6. Advanced knowledge of BW Extractors from the SAP system..
7. Working knowledge of SAP structures, object dependencies
and tables.
8. Strong expertise in BEX query development.
9. Knowledge of BOBJ tools such as Universes/InfoView/Webi,
and Crystal Reports.
10. Strong understanding of SAP end-to-end data flows and
interactions between one SAP module and others.
Duties:
1. Develop and maintain the overall technical architecture
and standards for SAP Business Information Warehouse and Business Objects BI
platform.
2. Assess and manage BI performance optimization efforts.
3. Contribute toward evolving company’s analytical
self-service/ad hoc reporting capabilities using existing or future toolsets.
4. Prepare appropriate documentation and ensure that new
functionality is properly transitioned to reporting users.
5. Develop prototypes in various BI tools for capability
assessment and demonstrations.
6. Accurately estimate work efforts and time estimates.
7. Participate and contribute to development and management
work plans.
8. Work with business partners and internal staff on
resolving platform production defects and performance issues.
9. Accountable for the BI Solution Architecture, stability
and sustainability.
10. Responsible for requirements gathering, solution design
best practices, and leveraging all available tools.
11. Propose optimal ways to address business demands
(trouble tickets, new requirements, etc.) for BI with a goal of delivering
maximum overall value for BI investments.
12. Promote BI within the Business User Community to better
leverage existing BI solutions and position BI for appropriate future needs.
13. Participate and develop BI landscape strategy including
optimal setup to support multiple/parallel
project deliverables.
14. Develop ongoing methods to deliver BI governance metrics
(i.e. usage, memory, space, queries, etc.).
15. Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education/Training/Certifications: B.S. in Computer
Information Systems or related field is required.
The following skill set would be a plus:
1. Knowledge of SAP ISU for Utilities Solution.
2. Experience in BW system upgrades.
3. BW integration with SAP Portals/Netweaver
4. Custom ABAP development skills
5. Web Services development experience with BW
6. Experience with other Business Intelligence and Data
Warehousing ETL and OLAP technologies
7. Experience in SAP BO 4.0.
8. Experience leading at least one full-lifecycle Business
Intelligence and Data Warehousing project.
Equipment: Telephone, and computer hardware and software
(including MSOffice).
Physical Demand/Environmental Conditions: Normal sedentary
office environment with repetitive work at computer keyboard.
Other: Requires on-call availability, the ability to work
independently as well as in a team environment and to facilitate a cooperative
and collaborative work environment within MIS and other departments. The
ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) and to translate
technical terminology in terms understandable to non-technical employees is
necessary.
This job description is only intended to reflect the general
nature and duties of the position and may not include all functions. Since jobs
tend to change over time, duties may be added or deleted as necessary without a
formal update of the job description.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)
This job description is only intended to reflect the general
nature and duties of the position and may not include all essential functions.
Since jobs tend to change over time, duties may be added or deleted as
necessary without a formal update of the job description.
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