Description
We are looking for a Data Engineer specialising in SAP BusinessObjects to join a BI team and consolidate its platform expertise. You will contribute to enterprise-scale migrations, architecture implementation and optimisation across environments supporting hundreds or thousands of reports and users.
Responsibilities
•Create and evolve SAP BO universes, optimise data models and queries, and design high-performance data pipelines.
•Participate in platform upgrades, including BO4-to-BO5 migrations, and rebuild complex UNV universes as UNX using Information Design Tool (IDT).
•Install and configure SAP BO on enterprise Linux servers across DEV, REC, UAT and PROD.
•Implement user groups, access restrictions and security controls; automate artifact promotion across environments.
•Execute functional, regression, performance and security testing, including report validation.
•Troubleshoot incidents, document architecture and operations, and provide post-go-live support and hypercare.
Requirements
•At least 5 years of relevant experience and mastery of SAP BO architecture, including Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Auditing, Promotion Management and Lifecycle Management.
•Hands-on UDT-to-IDT migration experience, rebuilding tables, columns, joins, contexts, aliases, derived tables, parameters and security profiles; ability to analyse dependencies between universes, reports, schedules and data sources.
•Strong SAP BO security knowledge covering users, groups, roles, entitlements, row-level, object-level and folder security, and access profiles.
•Expert Linux skills and experience implementing new SAP BO architectures, with knowledge of backup, restore, high availability, disaster recovery, sizing and performance tuning.
•Strong database expertise, including connection migration and reconfiguration across IBM DB2, SAP Sybase, Oracle and SQL Server; familiarity with platforms such as Teradata.
•Experience with auditing, log and performance analysis, root-cause investigation and critical incident resolution.
•Practical Python and data visualisation/analytics experience with tools such as Power BI, Alteryx or Dataiku; ability to produce runbooks, operational procedures, governance standards and migration documentation.
•Relevant university degree or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
•Digital product deployment and third-party data governance experience.
Conditions
•Rate between €4700 - 5000 RV / €2800 - 3100 CTI (gross value).
