SAP Developer

Job Title: SAP Developer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Birmingham (3 days a week on site)

Salary: £80,000

Key Skills: SAP BW, Data Governance, SAP Analytics, Dataflows, SAC, & DWC.

This position will be responsible for delivering technology capability to the business, ensuring that employees have access to systems that they need to perform their duties.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement: Engage and collaborate with business stakeholders at all levels to design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models for analytical data needs.

Metadata Management: Produce and manage metadata (such as relationships and calculation logic) and ensure thorough documentation using data modelling tools.

Project Management: Lead data analysis projects by gathering business requirements from users, converting them into functional specifications, and coordinating with third-party contractors to define scope, benefits, and delivery across various systems.

System Integration: Support data and analytics initiatives by integrating SAP Datasphere with SAP BW and BW Bridge developments.

Data Architecture: Apply best practice architecture and design principles to develop robust analytical data models.

Documentation and Support: Review and update operational documentation when needed and provide production support during critical periods like month-end, quarter-end, and year-end.

Master Data Consistency: Ensure master data remains consistent across related systems and work on improving existing interfaces to resolve data issues in SAP ECC, BW, BPC, and downstream systems.

Required Skills & Experience

Certification or equivalent experience with SAP Analytics tools (e.g., SAP Application Associate for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC)).
Recent experience in a similar data-related role.
Significant experience diagnosing and resolving data integration issues.
In-depth knowledge of SAP BW, ECC, S/4, SAC, and their data structures.
Expertise in S/4HANA Analytics, including CDS Views Development, SAP HANA Cloud or HANA 2.0, and SAP BW/4HANA.
Proficiency in designing and developing analytical models using Graphical/SQL Views.
Strong ability to design and implement complex data flows.
Experience working on mixed modelling with both BW and native HANA modelling.
Familiarity with integrating SAP and non-SAP data sources
Strong understanding of data governance principles and best practices.