SAP Business Objects Architect

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Top Three Skills:
  • Proven experience in full life-cycle design and development of BOBJ applications integrated with SAP BW is preferred
  • Strong knowledge of SAP BW standard business content and ECC data sources/standard and custom extractors (Good experience with ABAP)
  • Experience of successfully integrating external data sources with SAP BI/BOBJ such as SQL Database Applications
  • Experience in SAP Business Objects platform (esp. XCelsius, Explorer) against SAP BW strongly preferred.
  • Hands on experience in BW development, SAP ETL tools, data staging techniques, metadata tools, & data base designs.
  • Experience in conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling


  • Job Description
    This position will require a thorough understanding of information architecture as it relates to overall business objectives, as well as the high-level technical architecture. The ideal candidate will have extensive SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 experience with data warehousing, reporting and analytics architectures, portals, as well as scorecards and dashboards.

    The BI Solutions/Data Architect will be responsible for initiating and guiding the full lifecycle of a Business Intelligence and Systems Integration solution, including requirements analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, application design and development, testing, and deployment. The preferred candidate will also have a commitment to working in cross-functional environment (Operations, Delivery and Sales), be familiar with the business challenges in multiple verticals, have an understanding of performance measurement, data integrity and experience with emerging technologies in business intelligence. This individual will be defining technical solution requirements, and will be go to person for Operation needs from the IT perspective and provide overall roadmap regarding tools and technologies

    Additional Information
    Solution Design/Architect
    Lead the definition, design and development of a standard reporting and analytics platform and associated business warehouse information model to enable cross functional operational reporting and LOB performance optimization
    Recommend and create the organizational-wide Business Intelligence technology strategy leveraging SAP Business Warehouse, Business Objects (BO Enterprise; OLAP Universes; Webi; Dashboards( Xcelsius); Explorer; Crystal Reports; Mobile; Integration Kits; Data Services; Metadata Management) and drive senior alignment for execution support
    Identify, create and influence an advanced BI business analytics agenda to increase benefits realization and process optimization
    Overall responsibility for the BW backend data architecture for all systems and data sources.
    Ensure a secure, scalable and extendable BI platform that is high performing and optimized for large data volumes
    Develop BW/BO standards, processes, and procedures for consistent execution and administration.

    BI/BW Development
    Translate complex Functional Specifications into detail Technical Designs and Technical Specifications.
    Model and build SAP BO metadata and architecture.
    Load data warehouse systems from different source systems (such as ECC) and flat files or tables using standard extraction tools.
    Perform testing, develop user guides and end-user training
    Be familiar with techniques and technology for managing very large database/data warehouses including SAP HANA, BIA, indexes, statistics, compression, partitioning and data deletion to all applicable BI objects.
    Design and build BI reports & queries using all applicable tools.
    Design and build Extraction, Transformations, and Loading (ETL) through SAP BO Data Services from all data sources.
    Develop creative solutions for complex requirements, including use of flexible and configurable products.
    Start date
    ASAP
    Duration
    6 months
    From
    Skyecube, LLC
    Published at
    29.05.2013
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    543408
    Contract type
    Freelance
    Workplace
    100 % remote
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