Location: Columbia SC

Duration: 4 months

Positions: 1

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

•     3+ years BO solution architecting experience

•     3+ years BO software installation and configuration experience

•     3+ years experience in BO software analysis, design, development,

and training

•     3+ years experience in BW software analysis, design, development,

and training

•     3+ years experience with Data Federator

•     3+ years experience with Data Services

•     3+ years experience with Data Integrator

•     3+ years experience with Text Analysis

•     3+ years experience with Performance Management

•     3+ years of BO Universe Designer experience

•     3+ years Web Intelligence experience

•     3+ years XCelsius/Dashboard experience

•     3+ years experience with MS integration

•     3+ years SAP BW integration experience

•     3+ years BEx integration experience

•     3+ years Crystal Reports experience

•     3+ years Data Integrator experience

•     3+ years BO Explorer experience

•     3+ years InfoView Portal experience

•     3+ years experience with Active Directory single sign-on integration

with Business Objects

•     Practical upgrade, OSS notes, support packs and troubleshooting

experience

•     Excellent communication skills      PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF

IMPORTANCE):

•     Two full life-cycleBW/ BO project implementation (Blue print,

realization, testing, “go live”, etc)

•     MS Office tools (e.g. Word, Excel, Viso, Project)

•     PM experience

•     Fluent English

•     Business Acumen

•     Live Office

•     BO Mobile

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelors in IT, Business or equivalent experience

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS:

Business Objects Certified

DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:

All within project schedules and other defined deadlines…

Solution Architecting

•     Participates with management to develop implementation and

maintenance strategies, processes, procedures and best practices for BO, to include integration with the State’s existing SAP BW solution and other disparate systems and data sources, within and across network boundaries.

•     Design a best practice information distribution and sharing solution

to include: web services, sFTP, background and scheduled jobs, website and portal integration, email, alerts, etc.

•     Design best practice BO security solution working within the

existing SCEIS framework.

•     Review Hardware specifications and the current SCEIS landscape.

•     Create a high-level implementation roadmap for the above solutions.

•     Detail the roadmap verifying the approach and strategy.

•     Install or upgrade and configure BO SW as needed in order to support

the above solutions.

•     Develop test plans to validate the solutions and components once

implemented.

•     Develop an upgrade roadmap to maintain the existing solution while

effectively leveraging the latest capabilities.

Development

•     Work with IT and Business teams to define, design, configure,

develop and implement BI solutions using the SAP BW/BOBJ suite of reporting and analysis tools.

•     Leverage SAP BW/BOBJ suite to build effective and high performance

data visualization solutions for state executives and agency leadership.

•     Create data extractions, data transformations, universes, WebIs ,

WSDLs, Dashboards, RDBMS and queries to satisfy identified reporting requirements.

•     Design test plans and conduct unit, integration and user acceptance

testing for the above.

•     Extract data from non-traditional resources such as spreadsheets and

flat files.

•     Create federated universes to allow joins and report across

disparate legacy data sources.

Training

•     Assist in the development of BO training curriculum, guides,

checklist, courses etc.

•     Formally provide process and technical knowledge transfer via paired

programming, peer coaching, written documentation and classroom instruction.

•     Develop user community adoption and utilization recommendations and

best practices.

General

•     Provide effective and timely oral and written communications to

management, peers and users.

•     Identification and escalation of issues and risks to management in a

timely manner.

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:

Within project schedules and other defined deadlines, in adherence to SCEIS architecture, and working under the direction of the SCEIS Business Warehouse (BW) and Reporting Team Lead, candidate will provide functional and technical business reporting services related

to:

      The installation, configuration, tuning and administration of SAP Business Objects (BO)

      The analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, documentation and support (full SDLC) of SAP BO software (e.g.

reports), specifically related to SAP’s finance, materials management, and human resources areas.

•     Major components of this project will include the deployment of BO

Enterprise, Data Federator, Universes (single and joined), Scheduling, Broadcasting and Web Intelligence.

•     This position requires analyzing system and business requirements,

SW installation and configuration, service patch administration, testing and data warehousing strategies.

•     Candidate must have in-depth knowledge of SAP’s BO SW functionality,

specifically with experience utilizing this SW in a public sector or large multi-divisional organization.

•     Candidate must have extensive knowledge of BO performance monitoring

and tuning.

•     Candidate must have extensive knowledge of SAP’s Business Warehouse

(BW).

•     Candidate must provide formal written documentation and peer and

user training.

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