Manager – SAP BW/HANA & Snowflake

Overview

Lead the SAP BW/HANA, Snowflake, and Data Analytics team to drive enterprise data platform transformation and deliver scalable, governed, high-performing analytics solutions across SAP and Snowflake environments.

What you'll do

• Lead and manage a 10+ member SAP BW/HANA, Snowflake, and Data Analytics team.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership for SAP BW, BW/4HANA, HANA, Snowflake, and enterprise data solutions.
• Define and implement scalable data architecture, data models, integration patterns, and analytics solutions.
• Drive modernization of legacy SAP BW environments toward BW/4HANA, HANA, and cloud-based Snowflake platforms.
• Establish standards for data engineering, data modeling, performance optimization, development, testing, and deployment.
• Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of enterprise data platforms.
• Lead enterprise data transformation initiatives aligned with SAP S/4HANA and cloud modernization strategies.
• Enable reusable and scalable data products for Business Intelligence, advanced analytics, AI, and reporting.
• Drive modernization of traditional reporting and data warehouse solutions toward cloud-native architectures.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity through modern data engineering practices.
• Partner with business teams to translate business requirements into scalable data and analytics solutions.
• Drive the adoption and expansion of Snowflake as an enterprise data platform.
• Establish Snowflake best practices for architecture, data ingestion, data modeling, workload management, performance, and cost optimization.
• Lead integration of SAP data with Snowflake using appropriate ETL/ELT and data integration technologies.
• Drive scalable data pipelines supporting enterprise reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Establish standards for Snowflake development, deployment, monitoring, security, and operational support.
• Partner with Data Governance and Security teams to implement data access, classification, and governance controls.
• Manage data platform projects within agreed scope, timelines, quality, and budget.
• Establish technical direction, delivery priorities, ownership, and accountability across the team.
• Mentor team members and develop technical and leadership capabilities.
• Build a talent pipeline across SAP, Snowflake, data engineering, analytics, and emerging technologies.
• Promote ownership, speed of delivery, continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Manage resource capacity, demand planning, prioritization, and ramp-up/ramp-down requirements.
• Partner with senior Business, DT, Architecture, Data Governance, and Technology leaders to define the enterprise data roadmap.
• Communicate technical concepts and transformation priorities to executive stakeholders.
• Drive alignment across global teams and multiple technology functions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, reduce technical debt, and improve delivery efficiency.
• Influence enterprise technology decisions through data-driven analysis, architecture recommendations, and business value assessments.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in SAP BW/BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, Data Warehousing, Data Engineering, or related data technologies.
• Strong hands-on and leadership experience with SAP BW/HANA and Snowflake.
• Strong understanding of SAP BW architecture, data modeling, extraction, transformation, reporting, and performance optimization.
• Experience with SAP ECC and S/4HANA data models and integration.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, data warehouse/data lakehouse concepts, data modeling, ELT/ETL, and cloud data platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data pipelines and analytics solutions.
• Experience integrating SAP data with Snowflake and other enterprise data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and data engineering concepts.
• Experience with data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, data classification, and access controls.
• Proven experience managing 10+ team members and leading complex data and analytics delivery.
• Strong project, program, delivery, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively across Business, IT, Architecture, Data Governance, and Technology functions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related STEM discipline.
• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience with 8+ years of relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.

Nice to have

• Experience leading SAP BW to BW/4HANA or Snowflake modernization initiatives.
• Strong experience implementing Snowflake platforms and cloud data warehouses.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation and downstream data architecture.
• Experience with data integration tools such as Matillion, Qlik, SLT, BODS, Informatica, Azure Data Factory, or similar technologies.
• Experience with BI and analytics platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing data governance and security solutions such as Immuta or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, or modern SAP data platforms.
• Experience establishing reusable data products and enterprise data models.
• Strong experience in cloud transformation and enterprise data modernization.
• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement, automation, and productivity improvements within data teams.
• Experience working in complex, global, matrixed organizations.
• Master’s degree in a related field.
• SAP BW/HANA, Snowflake, cloud, or data engineering certification is highly desirable.

Details

• Location: Yelahanka Hobli, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid; employees in Hybrid roles work regularly both onsite and offsite, with the onsite ratio determined in partnership with the leader.
• All India positions require a background check, which may include a drug screen.
• Background check and drug screen are required for every external new hire in India; drug screening is performed only for Operations positions.