Title:
Specialist SAP BW4 HANA Developer
Hierarchical Level:
Professional
Division/Department:
Global Information Technology
Reports to: IT Manager
Number of
Direct Reports:
None
Travel:
5% or less
Revision Date:
1/31/2025
Grade (US Only):
HR To Determine
FLSA (US Only):
HR To Determine
Type of Position:
Salary
Summary:
The Specialist SAP BW/4HANA Developer is responsible for the maintenance, performance tuning, production support, and development of the organization's SAP Enterprise Data Warehouse. This role involves designing and implementing data models, optimizing extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes, and ensuring data integrity across various SAP and non-SAP systems. The developer will collaborate closely with business analysts, data architects, and other stakeholders to deliver high-performance reporting and analytics solutions. Additionally, they will play a key role in troubleshooting issues, implementing enhancements, and staying up to date with emerging SAP technologies to drive continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
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System Administration
Oversee the day-to-day operations of BW4, including system monitoring and performance tuning.
Data Modeling
Maintain data models, schemas, and structures within the Enterprise Data Warehouse to ensure efficient storage and retrieval of data.
ETL Development
Develop, test, and maintain Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes to move and transform data from source systems into the data warehouse.
Data Quality Assurance
Implement data quality checks, validation rules, and data profiling techniques to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data.
Performance Optimization
Monitor and optimize BW4 performance to ensure efficient data retrieval and reporting.
Documentation
Maintain comprehensive documentation of data models, ETL processes, and data lineage for auditing and reference purposes.
Report and Dashboard Development
Collaborate with business analysts and data visualization experts to create reports and dashboards that enable data-driven decision-making.
Security and Compliance
Ensure data security and compliance with relevant data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and company policies.
Data Governance
Implement and enforce data governance practices to maintain data quality, lineage, and metadata.
Troubleshooting
Investigate and resolve data-related issues and provide support to end-users.
Business Partnering
Builds strong collaborative relationships with multiple business stakeholders, managing expectations, providing a clear point of contact within IT for each business stakeholder and acting as a bridge between IT and the business for technology business initiatives.
Collaborates with the Implementation Partner (Project Manager) reporting on project status, issues and changes and working to ensure project requirements are well understood, documented, and approved by all stakeholders.
Essential Functions of the Role**:
Flexibility in work schedule, off-hours for project implementation.
Travel via plane or automobile both locally and internationally
Work Experience Requirements
Number of Overall Years Necessary: 5-8
A minimum of 5 years of experience in SAP BW4
A minimum or 5 years of experience business process analysis and design
Education Requirements
BS/BA , or equivalent business experience in a business related discipline
Specialized Skills/Technical Knowledge:
Possesses deep enterprise-wide application knowledge in the designated business function. Application knowledge includes configuration of business processes, key integration points between modules, related master data, and transactional execution.
Maintains current knowledge of the business trends and technology developments and applies this knowledge to meet the business challenges.
Strong expertise in desktop applications essential to the position including Visio for process flow diagrams, Excel and/or Access for large scale data analysis.
Knowledge of business requirements elicitation techniques, such as use cases, prototyping, questionnaires, etc. used in the business analysis discipline. Applies appropriate requirements gathering approach based upon the situation and audience.
Business partnering skills to be able to align business needs to technology solutions to deliver business value.
Strong analytical skills to identify business needs, formulate viable alternative solutions, and present the business/technical impact of the solutions.
Strong verbal communication skills including the ability to understand oral descriptions of complex business processes and technical content. Converses with business users using common business vocabulary, avoiding technical jargon. Takes measures to test common understanding including paraphrasing and slowing their speech pattern.
Strong written communication skills including the ability to document complex business processes and technical content using common business terminology. Uses visual aids like process flows or decision tables to supplement verbal explanations.
Local Specifications (English and Local Language):
Fluency in English is required
** To comply with regulations by the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), the principal duties in job descriptions must be essential to the job. To identify essential functions, focus on the purpose and the result of the duties rather than the manner in which they are performed. The following definition applies: a job function is essential if removal of that function would fundamentally change the job.
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