
Consultant Solutions, SAP Data Platforms Consultant
- Manchester Newcastle
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Strategy and Architecture
- Data & Platforms
- Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
- Advanced Analytics
- Performance, Consolidation & Close
- SAP ECC/ S4/HANA
- SAP DataSphere
- SAP Business Warehouse for HANA (SAP BW/4HANA)
- SAP Data Intelligence
- SAP Business Transformation Platform (BTP)
- Advising clients on vendor selection of market-leading products.
- Contributing SAP data expertise to individual project teams or work streams as part of larger projects and programmes.
- Taking part in client discovery, requirement gathering and analysis workshops.
- Designing efficient data models and ETL process across a range of technologies.
- Planning and performing data migrations.
- Establishing effective working relationships with peer-level clients as part of project delivery roles.
- Understanding industry context requirements.
- Design, develop, and implement robust and scalable SAP BW solutions based on business requirements.
- Develop data models, InfoCubes, InfoObjects, DataStore Objects (DSOs), Advanced DSOs, Composite Providers, and other BW objects.
- Design and develop ETL processes using various BW tools and techniques, including InfoPackages, Data Transfer Processes (DTPs), and ABAP routines.
- Create and maintain process chains for data loading and transformation.
- Develop and maintain BW queries and/or Analysis for Office (AFO).
- Implement security concepts and authorization roles within the BW environment.
- Develop and maintain documentation for all BW solutions.
- Monitor and analyze BW system performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Optimize data models, ETL processes, and queries for performance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to BW.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
- Collaborate with other technical teams (e.g., SAP Basis, ABAP development, database administration) to ensure seamless integration of BW with other systems.
- Expertise across the full lifecycle of data integration activities (DQ, data migrations, data mastering, data architecture, data modelling, business intelligence etc.).
- Data modelling techniques and tooling including conceptual, logical and technical modelling.
- Understanding of DQ tools and how to conduct DQ (data quality) exercises and assess and present the results to senior-level clients.
- Expert level of designing and presenting data architecture structures.
- Very good knowledge of S/4 HANA data structures.
- Experience of connectivity from on-premise to cloud hosted applications.
- Expert level understanding of the design and implementing data migration programmes.
- Expert level in data mastering and governance design and solution implementation.
- Knowledge and experience in SAP BW4/HANA.
- A high level of expertise in Smart Data Access, S4 structures, SAP Business Transformation Platform (BTP) Enterprise HANA or equivalent.
- Hands on project experience including business requirements analysis, scoping, design and configuration with one of the tools above or equivalent, on at least: (Senior Consultant) three full implementation lifecycles.
- Ability to translate technical information to non-technical individuals is essential, as well as the ability to present this to a range of audiences in a clear, concise, appropriate manner.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Advanced MS Office skills including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Consistent high quality personal and professional standards.
- Technical certification on any of the technologies mentioned above or equivalent.
- Experience of SAP Data integrations tools such as Data Services, BTP, SLT, OData.
- Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit with Migration Object Modeller with Rapid Data Migration Content.
- Knowledge of big data connectivity and Data Services.
- Experience of SAP Data Governance tools such as Master Data Governance (MDG), SAP Info Steward.