The Role
Engagingwith clients
- Establishes communications with clients.
- Promotes management consultancy services.
ScopingClient Requirements
- Understands and defines client requirements.
- Presents clear and comprehensive written proposals.
- Engages the client in selecting and owning optimal design options.
Managing client interface
- Manages stakeholder expectations, maintaining focus on overall deliverables, agreeing and applying contractual terms of engagement.
Communication & Presentation
- Conveys ideas and thoughts in a clear, focused style using effective verbal and non-verbal communication techniques, in formal and informal situations.
- Uses presentation tools and techniques effectively to engage audience.
- Produces clear client correspondence and reports, selecting most appropriate style to achieve desired outcome.
Managing& Developing Others
- Manages, develops and appraises others, delegating where appropriate.
- Seeks support from peers where appropriate.
Partneringwith Others
- Understands and engages expertise of others alongside own.
- Leverages network effectively to research and define client issues, generate innovative solutions and/or inform delivery solutions.
Tools& Methodologies
- Selects and uses appropriate diagnostic tools, methods and techniques.
- Actively seeks out new and appropriate tools.
ApplyingKnowledge
- Captures and builds knowledge in defined processes.
- Share knowledge and experiences with others.
- Applied knowledge, tools and technical expertise to support value creation, tailoring to the specific needs of the client.
Planning& Management
- Manages client projects effectively, ensuring objectives, deadlines and budgets are met by team members under own control.
- Competent use of planning tools and milestones appropriate for the size and scale of the project.
- Demonstrates ability to assess form and allocate work streams, managing own time and that of others to meet deadlines.
- Operates competently in all areas of project delivery.
Managing Risk
- Manages medium risk projects (high complexity) working with others.
- Identifies, quantifies and manages issues impacting on delivery of project.
Ensuring Quality
- Demonstrates track record of successful delivery in a range of delivery roles in client engagements.
- Ensures quality of own deliverables and those of team.
- Monitors and measures client satisfaction.
Managing Withdrawal
- Works with clients to determine a handover process to ensure skills transfer, sustainability of results and knowledge capture as appropriate for project.
- Reviews and predicts any potential areas of deficit, addressing them before the engagement ends.
Technical Expertise
- Recognized as expert in own discipline.
Business Understanding
- Discusses impact of other disciplines on area of work with confidence and knowledge.
- Sector Knowledge.
Responsibilities
- Document all technical specifications for implemented solutions.
- Proficient in developing CDS views, AMDP with deep knowledge of SQL scripting and SAP HANA modelling & ABAP/CDS with experience in the areas of Analysis, Design, Development
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, and OData services
- Strong understanding of SAP HANA architecture, performance tuning, and data management techniques.
- Collaborate with clients to gather business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- CDS View Development:
- Design and develop complex CDS views for advanced data modelling and analytics within the SAP ecosystem.
- Implement data models that meet business requirements, ensuring high performance and scalability in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Utilize annotations and associations to enhance CDS views, enabling efficient querying and reporting.
- SAP Analytics Integration:
- Integrate CDS views with SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA, and other SAP modules, ensuring seamless data flow and consistency across the enterprise.
- Develop and optimize OData services for consumption by SAP Fiori applications and other reporting tools.
- Work closely with SAP functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions using SAP CDS.
- Performance Tuning and Optimization:
- Conduct performance analysis and optimization of CDS views to minimize data retrieval times and enhance user experience.
- Implement best practices in SQL scripting, indexing, and data partitioning to improve the efficiency of SAP HANA-based models.
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues in CDS views and associated analytics applications.
- Data Management and Governance:
- Ensure data integrity and quality by implementing robust data validation, cleansing, and transformation processes within CDS views.
- Develop and enforce data governance policies, ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with data architects and governance teams to maintain accurate data lineage and metadata.
- Technical Leadership and Collaboration:
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers, guiding them in the development of CDS views and SAP analytics solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including SAP BASIS, functional consultants, and business analysts to ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables.
- Stay current with SAP advancements, continuously improving the technical capabilities of the team by integrating new features and best practices.
- Documentation and Best Practices:
- Develop comprehensive documentation for CDS views, including data models, dependencies, and performance tuning techniques.
- Establish and maintain coding standards, ensuring that all developments are aligned with SAP best practices and organizational guidelines.
- Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Experience in SAP Business Integrity screening
- Manage delivery of services against agreed SLAs as well as manage escalations both internal and externally.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of SAP Embedded Analytics
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior consultants and team members.
- Conduct requirement gathering sessions and provide design thinking approach.
- Work closely with clients to understand their business needs and provide tailored solutions.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring satisfaction and trust.
- Manage and mentor a team of consultants, ensuring high-quality delivery and skill development.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and promote the adoption of new tools and methodologies within the team.
- Well experience in handling P1 and P2 situations.
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor s Degree IT or equivalent 10 to 12 years of experience in one or more SAP modules.
- At least four full life cycle SAP Embedded Analytics implementation and at least one SAP Business Integrity screening experience (from Blueprint/Explore through Go-Live).
- Ability to use Service Marketplace to create tickets, research notes, review release notes and solution roadmaps as well as provide guidance to customers on release strategy.
- Exposure to other SAP modules and integration points.
- Strong understanding of SAP S4/HANA Embedded Analytics and SAP Business Integrity screening
- Knowledge of SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and other SAP modules.
- Proficiency in developing CDS views, AMDP with deep knowledge of SQL scripting and SAP HANA modelling.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Fiori, and OData services.
- Strong understanding of SAP HANA architecture, performance tuning, and data management techniques.
- Familiarity with ABAP programming and SAP HANA SQL Script
- Flexible to work in shifts based on the project requirement.
- Excellent communication, client management, and stakeholder engagement abilities.
Consulting Skills
- Aptitude for working in a team environment; problem-solving skills, creative thinking, communicating clearly and empathetically, strong time management, and ability to collaborate with all levels of staff.
- Understandsconsulting soft skills necessary on engagements, as well as with team collaborative initiatives.
- Ability to interpret requirements and apply SAP best practices.
- Develop new professional peer relationships for additional business or possible new consultants.
- Helps develop overall marketing messages.
- Communicates project resource requirements to staffing coordinator/clients.
- Ensures quality implementation (works with QA program).
LeadershipSkills
- Seeks ways to increase the project team effectiveness.
- May act as a mentor for the team.
- Works well as a leader of the entire team (motivates team).
