ERP Analytics & Reporting Lead

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Analytics & Reporting Lead to own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise reporting, analytics, and data warehousing solutions.

This role will provide hands-on technical leadership across SAP and cloud-based analytics platforms, including SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Analytics, Power BI, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, embedded SAP analytics, and integrated SAP and non-SAP enterprise analytics solutions.

The successful candidate will partner with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, SAP functional teams, data teams, and external partners to deliver secure, scalable, governed, and business-focused analytics solutions that enable trusted decision-making and support future modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage delivery quality and operational performance across internal teams, implementation partners, and run-and-maintain vendors.

• Establish technical standards, development best practices, and governance processes.
• Drive collaboration across ERP, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, and business organizations.

• Build team capability across SAP BW/4HANA, Power BI, BDC/Datasphere, Azure, Databricks, and emerging analytics technologies.
• Act as the escalation point for complex architecture, delivery, support, and stakeholder alignment issues.

Enterprise Analytics Strategy & Architecture

• Define and maintain the enterprise analytics roadmap aligned with business objectives and digital transformation initiatives that include future modernization and decommissioning activities.
• Establish enterprise data architecture standards supporting operational reporting, self-service analytics, executive dashboards, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives.
• Design and oversee SAP BW/4HANA data models, data flows, transformations, and reporting solutions.
• Lead the evolution of the analytics ecosystem including SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Power BI, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and related technologies.
• Ensure alignment between analytics platforms, enterprise data strategy, ERP modernization programs, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Drive architecture decisions balancing business agility, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership.

·        Establish enterprise semantic models and governed data products.

·        Define data virtualization, replication, federation, and data-sharing strategies across SAP landscapes.

·        Ensure reuse of SAP-delivered content, CDS models, and business content packages.

·        Align analytics architecture with RISE with SAP and cloud transformation initiative

Data Integration & Analytics

• Lead integration efforts involving BW/4HANA ODP, CDS Views, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Analysis for Office, BEx, and related analytics platforms.

• Define and support the future-state analytics strategy, including alignment with RISE with SAP, SAP Business Data Cloud, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and enterprise-approved applications.

• Oversee data extraction, transformation, loading (ETL/ELT), operational monitoring processes, and SAP technologies such as SLT and SDA.
• Ensure data quality, reconciliation, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements are met.
• Support enterprise reporting initiatives across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, and other business functions.
• Establish patterns for advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases using Databricks and SAP data products
• Drive implementation of enterprise data catalogs and business glossaries

Data Modeling & Engineering

• Define enterprise data modeling standards across:

• • SAP Datasphere Spaces

• • BW Composite Providers

• • InfoObjects

• • Data Products

• • Lakehouse Models

• • Star Schemas

• • Semantic Layers

• Build curated ERP data assets supporting:

• • Finance reporting

• • Procurement analytics

• • Inventory visibility

• • Manufacturing insights

• • Transportation and logistics reporting

• • Commercial performance metrics

• Govern master data consistency across SAP and non-SAP data sources.

Application Support & Operational Excellence

• Provide leadership for incident management, P2 or major incident resolution, problem resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Guide business- and IT-driven enhancements and projects from intake through delivery.
• Work with Run & Maintain vendor to ensure successful execution and monitoring of process chains, scheduled jobs, and data loads.
• Drive continuous improvement in system stability, performance, automation, and monitoring.

• Partner with Basis, Security, Infrastructure, and Release Management teams to maintain a reliable platform, including OSS note management, BW/4HANA upgrades, and release coordination.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of enterprise analytics, SAP BW/BI, reporting, or data warehousing experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on SAP BW/4HANA experience.
• 3+ years leading technical teams, projects, or delivery organizations.

• Strong expertise in SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA Modeling, SAP S/4HANA Analytics, ODP Framework, CDS Views, and Process Chains.
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing architecture, data integration, ETL/ELT design, Power BI, Databricks, and SAP Solution Manager.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP BW/4HANA certification.
• Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud.
• Experience with Datasphere.
• Experience with Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Analysis for Office, BEx, and related analytics platforms.
• Experience integrating SAP and cloud data platforms.
• Knowledge of enterprise security, GRC, and data governance frameworks.

• Experience leading large-scale ERP transformation, S/4HANA migration, or RISE with SAP programs.

• Experience supporting advanced analytics, AI, or machine learning initiatives.

Technical Skills

SAP Technologies: SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, CDS Views, ODP Framework, and BW Query Design.

Analytics & Reporting: Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), Analysis for Office, Enterprise Reporting, Dashboard Development, and Self-Service Analytics.

Data & Integration: Data Modeling, ETL/ELT Development, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, SQL, Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Integration, and Data Warehousing Solutions.

Why Join Us?

• Lead strategic enterprise analytics initiatives.
• Work with modern SAP and cloud data technologies.
• Influence enterprise reporting and data strategy.
• Partner with business leaders to deliver measurable value through data and analytics.

Keywords: SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA Analytics, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Power BI, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, RISE with SAP, Enterprise Analytics, Data Warehouse, ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, Reporting & Analytics