Business Intelligence Architect
A. O. Smith
- Nashville, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Interface SAP BW with SAP and third-party analytics tools to improve usability and process efficiency
- Advise on development and testing proposals amongst team members across the full analytics stack
- Collaborate with other functional architects and business analysts to ensure end-to-end analytic needs are met
- Understand non-SAP business systems and support business analysts as needed
- Support a data driven decision culture
- Mentor team members and functional analysts on best practices
- Monitor Analytics trends and best practices and identify optimization opportunities
- 8+ years of progressive SAP BW on HANA or BW4/HANA development experience in a global environment
- 5+ years' experience developing Business Objects (Web Intelligence and Analysis for Office) solutions
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information systems, Mathematics, or related field
- Capability to lead and execute complex assignments and projects independently within prescribed timeframe and funding parameters
- Expertise in leading requirements gathering workshops, SAP BW Data Model Development, ABAP Development, SAP BW Security Model, Cutover Activities, Data Migration, Testing, User Training, and hyper-care support experience
- Knowledge in SD-FI, and other ERP integrations, SD-MM integrations and TM
- Ability to troubleshoot systems issues, complete complex reconciliations, and coordinate with process experts to resolve integrated issues
- Proven ability to mentor senior, intermediate, and junior developers, and analysts
- Strong relationship building skills and the ability to convey complex information appropriately to both technical and non-technical team members across all levels of the organization.
- Preferred:
- SAP BW on HANA or BW4/HANA implementation or upgrade experience
- Demonstrated ability to design interfaces between SAP BW and external/non-SAP systems (flat file based, XML based)
- Master's degree in computer science, Information systems, Mathematics, or related field
- Experience developing SAP S/4 Embedded Analytics solutions, or SAP Analytics Cloud solutions
- SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) experience
- Experience working with Vistex, SalesForce, or Celonis
- Cloud data warehouse experience with Snowflake or Amazon Redshift