Senior SAP BW/BO Techno Functional Architect

Role: Senior SAP BW/BO Techno Functional Architect

Location: New York, NY (Midtown Manhattan) _ Resource Start Date: ASAP 

Duration (Months): 6 

Experience: 10+ yrs_ Locals only

 Skills Required: The purpose of this position is to have additional Senior BW resource in order to handle the current demands of our agencies and to properly support the SAP program.

Responsibilities:-

 Responsible for defining information requirements and convert them into functional specifications, delivering proper conceptual designs, development, implement and support SAP's B W solutions, which include the complex extraction, transformation and loading operational setups, create and maintain DSO's, Infocube and other info providers, establish and monitor process chains. All solution in SAP BI must fit into the global reporting architecture_ _ ‚ Responsible for performance tuning of BW systems utilizing best practices_ _ ‚ Responsible for supporting Business Objects reports in production and new report development_ _ ‚ Responsible for root cause analysis and providing solutions for production and development issues_ _ ‚ Responsible for working with any other BI members based on North American to maintain and apply coherent, optimized, integrated, and standardized processes and solutions_ _ ‚ Responsible for prepare comprehensive documentation required according to methodology for all Global BI projects_ _ ‚ Responsible to support the entire implementation effort during all project stages, ensuring that in areas of assigned responsibility milestones and related sign-offs are achieved on a timely basis and in accord with current project plan_ _ ‚ Responsible for promoting IT the Global BI Architecture within the organization

Qualifications: _ _ This position requires:_  8+ years of systems implementation in a complex environment and at least 3 full cycle implementations of SAP BW_ _  Experience developing Global BI solution from multiple SAP R/3 & NON-SAP system with varying designs into a common BI platform_ _  Experience in performance tuning BW production systems with at least 3 projects with this focus_ _  Experience with BW Accelerator and/or Near Line Storage required_ _  Solid SAP development experience utilizing ABAP and ABAP Objects._ _  A broad understanding of at least two of the main Financial (FI & CO) and Logistics modules (SD & MM) in core R/3 preferred._ _  Ability to work independently and lead small development projects related to BW_ _  Experience with Bex query development and custom enhancement using ABAP and customer exit._ _  Prior experience of adapting SAP R/3 or SAP BI to a Service sector environment would be definitely advantageous._ _  Experience with Finance, Business Intelligence, Data Integration and MDM applications a plus_ _  Experience with process chain and job scheduling and report distribution_ _  Solid communication skills with a key ability to translate technical subjects into non-technical terms in order to hold discussion with the business.