Lead Functional Consultant - SAP HANA
We are seeking a Lead Functional Consultant - SAP HANA to drive the design, development and integration of advanced SAP HANA solutions, lead a high-performing team and bridge the gap between business needs and technical execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of SAP HANA developers and analysts, providing strategic direction and technical oversight
- Manage and coordinate activities with Product Owners, Business Users and stakeholders to gather requirements and prioritize tasks
- Act as a liaison between technical teams and business users, translating business needs into actionable technical solutions
- Foster collaboration and communication within the team through regular meetings and proactive issue resolution
- Ensure team adherence to project timelines, performance standards and organizational goals
- Leverage core SAP HANA technologies such as calculation views, procedures and table functions to develop robust data models
- Employ advanced modeling techniques including hierarchies, time-dependent models, currency conversion and input-ready models
- Optimize HANA database performance by analyzing and adjusting SQL procedures, queries, views and indexes
- Build new data integrations from sources like SAP BW, Salesforce, GA4, IoT and Azure Blob using SAP Data Services, Alteryx or Python
- Expose data in SAP HANA to external platforms via OData, SFTP folders and writing data back to Salesforce
- Perform impact assessments for new developments and changes in SAP ERP (FI/CO, SD, MM, PS)
- Create and manage SAP views to support reporting and analytics requirements
- Perform SAP BW troubleshooting and impact assessments on SAP BW objects when changes are introduced in related systems
- Manage virtual connections and integrations between SAP HANA and BW
- Develop and enable reporting solutions in SAP Analysis for Office and Power BI
- Support Data Science initiatives by providing data to data scientists
- Monitor and support issues encountered in data integrations pipeline
Requirements
- 8-13 years of working experience in SAP HANA, SAP ERP and SAP BW environments
- Expertise in SAP HANA modeling, including calculation views, attribute views and analytic views
- Knowledge of SAP ERP core business processes such as finance, sales and distribution, materials management and project systems
- Proficiency in developing and integrating complex ETL/ELT workflows in HANA using SAP Data Services or Alteryx
- Skills in building data integrations from SAP BW, Salesforce, GA4, IoT or Azure Blob into SAP HANA
- Competency in exposing SAP HANA data to external platforms via OData, SFTP or Salesforce
- Background in SAP BW troubleshooting, impact assessments and managing virtual connections with HANA
- Qualifications in developing reporting solutions in SAP Analysis for Office or Power BI
- Capability to optimize HANA database performance through SQL procedures, queries and indexes
- Understanding of advanced SAP HANA modeling techniques such as hierarchies, time-dependent models and currency conversion
