Senior SAP BODS/BO Platform Admin & Developer

Overview

Platform Admin & Developer responsible for all activities related to BODS and BoBJ.

What you'll do

• Perform full installations, patching, updates, and configuration of SAP BusinessObjects (BI 4.x) and BODS (4.x) and 2025 platforms exclusively on Windows Server operating systems.
• Manage users, groups, folders, and access levels using the Central Management Console (CMC) and Data Services Management Console.
• Create and configure local, central, and secure BODS repositories.
• Configure Job Servers, Job Server groups, and load-balancing environments.
• Handle content migrations, promotions, and deployments across Development, QA, and Production environments using Promotion Management/Lifecycle Manager.
• Proactively monitor system performance, server logs, audit logs, and system metrics.
• Define and validate failover, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Integrate external systems by generating and consuming both SOAP and REST Web Services natively through BODS.
• Configure Web Service Datastores and handle XML/JSON hierarchical data payloads.
• Configure iDOCs and extract data using iDOCs from SAP ECC.
• Design and develop ETL jobs using SAP BODS to extract, transform, and load data from various sources (SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.).
• Implement delta loads, data cleansing, and transformation logic.
• Utilize scripts, local/global variables, custom functions, substitutions, and Change Data Capture (CDC) methods.
• Optimize dataflows for performance and scalability.
• Build robust recovery mechanisms, automated retry logic, and detailed system error tracking for automated batch jobs.
• Integrate with cloud platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure, AWS) as needed.
• Monitor and troubleshoot ETL jobs and resolve data quality issues.
• Proactively analyze existing ETL designs to identify inefficiencies or faulty logic and recommend improvements.
• Ensure high performance and reliability of dataflows through tuning and optimization techniques.
• Develop and maintain reports and dashboards using Web Intelligence, Analysis for Office and Analysis Edition for OLAP.
• Create and manage Universes using Information Design Tool (IDT).
• Work with stakeholders to gather reporting requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Ensure data accuracy and consistency across reports.
• Collaborate with business analysts, data architects, and other IT/Business teams.
• Document technical specifications, data mappings, and job schedules.
• Participate in code reviews and performance tuning.
• Provide support for production issues and enhancements.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or equivalent degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
• SAP BODS 4.x / BOBJ 4.x / 2025.
• SQL/Python.
• Experienced in using ABAP flows from ERP/S4.
• Experienced in working with SAP BW/HANA data models.

Nice to have

• SAP BW on HANA/Datasphere.
• SAC.
• Tableau.
• Snowflake.

Details

• Location: Bangalore (NXT).
• Should be open to work in US Time zone.