[Hiring] SAP BW Consultant @CGI

Role Description

Our client has acquired a business and is transitioning 65 applications, including the SAP landscape covered by these roles, from the acquired business's legacy landscape into its own. Transition is about to begin. These roles will carry their process areas through the full arc: knowledge transfer and transition of the applications into the client's target environment, stabilization once they are live there, and steady state run with defined SLAs, runbooks, and clean documentation.

The delivery model is global. These consultants will work daily with CGI and client transition and application teams in other regions and time zones, and with third party vendors supporting the surrounding applications. Candidates need to be effective in that setting: clear written communication, disciplined handoffs, and the willingness to flex hours for overlap when the work requires it.

This role can be based remotely anywhere in the United States; however, Dallas, Texas is highly preferred. Due to the nature of the work and in compliance with federal regulations, an active security clearance is required for this position.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Support the client's SAP BW environment, which provides reporting across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and planning.
• Take the BW landscape through transition: baselining reports and data in the current environment, reconciling them after the move, fixing extractors and process chains that break, and getting daily loads to run reliably.
• Accountable for building and enforcing the authorization model that keeps export controlled technical and program information properly restricted.
• Design, build, and support BW data models: InfoObjects, DSOs/ADSOs, InfoCubes, CompositeProviders, and transformations.
• Build and maintain extractors from ECC (LO cockpit, FI, CO, and generic extractors) and from APO, including delta handling and process chain scheduling.
• Develop and support BEx queries, Analysis for Office workbooks, and SAP Analytics Cloud or BusinessObjects content.
• Build and maintain analysis authorizations to enforce need to know and export control restrictions on reporting data.
• Monitor and tune data loads, resolve failures, and manage performance of large models.
• Lead the transition of your process area into the client's target environment: take knowledge transfer, document current state configuration and interfaces, validate migrated configuration and data, and confirm interfaces work end to end.
• Stabilize and run: establish steady state support processes, write runbooks and knowledge transfer documentation, and move the area to defined SLAs.
• Collaborate daily with distributed CGI and client teams across regions and time zones, and with third party vendors on connected applications.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SAP BW experience (7.x on HANA preferred), with at least one full lifecycle implementation.
• Strong data modeling skills and hands on experience with ECC standard and custom extractors.
• Experience with BEx, Analysis for Office, and at least one of SAC or BusinessObjects.
• Hands on experience designing analysis authorizations and working with the security team.
• Working knowledge of the SAP source modules whose data you model (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP) and of APO planning data.
• Experience on an M&A integration, carve out, or application transition program, including the shift from transition through stabilization into run.
• Proven ability to work with globally distributed teams and flex hours for time zone overlap.
• Active U.S. security clearance (Secret or higher preferred).
• U.S. person under ITAR, with working knowledge of export control as it applies to data classification, segregation, and reporting access.
• Available for hybrid work and client site travel. Dallas, TX preferred; candidates may be located anywhere in the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications

• Aerospace and defense or manufacturing industry experience, including program level reporting and earned value data.
• BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, or HANA native modeling (calculation views) experience.
• Exposure to cloud data platforms and the SAP connectors used to feed them.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well-being programs