Job Description

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio
Your role and responsibilities

• Lead and support business development activities, including pre-sales activities (i.e. proposals).
• Lead project delivery teams throughout the client's transformation journey. It includes:

• Lead SAP Reporting & Analytics engagements across the full project lifecycle from discovery and design to build, test, deployment, and adoption.
• Architect and implement modern, scalable Data & Analytics solutions leveraging SAP best practices across BW/4HANA, Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Adopt and incorporate IBM's leading market tools and methodologies in the engagements.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• SAP Reporting tools: SAP Analytics Cloud, Embedded Analytics, SAP Analytics for Office
• Data Warehousing solutions: BW/4HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), Datasphere and Native HANA.
• Candidate must have a minimum of 10 to 15 years of delivering end-to-end SAP Reporting and Analytics solutions.
• A minimum of 6 full life-cycle implementations is sought covering requirements analysis and definition, solution and technical design, build, test and deployment using either BW/4HANA or SAP Analytics Cloud in combination with Datasphere.
• The candidate must demonstrate a sound functional knowledge in core process areas, including but not limited to Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Sales & Distribution, and Human Resources
• The candidate must demonstrate solid client facing skills, including managing of stakeholders and technical teams and coordination across engagement streams.
• The candidate must demonstrate solid written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• The candidate must demonstrate solid client facing skills, including managing of stakeholders and technical teams and coordination across engagement streams.
• Programming skills: SAP CDS and SQL Development
• Strong data modelling and SAP BW/4HANA back-end technical design, build and test experience.
• Configuration of the SAP BW/4HANA application including data models, ETL and reporting tools SAP Query, Analytics Office, SAP Analytics Cloud
• Understanding about other cloud Datawarehouse solutions: Snowflake, Databricks, Data Fabric, Hyperscalers
• Non-SAP Reporting and Analytics tools. Power BI, Tableau etc.
• Experience or exposure to Generative AI/Machine Learning use cases
• Certifications in this space - must have current SAP HANA certification, SAC certification, BDC certification, certification in Datasphere is viewed favorably.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
Job Title
SAP Data Analytics Application Architect
Job ID
80489
City / Township / Village
ABU DHABI
State / Province
Abu Dhabi
Country
United Arab Emirates
Work arrangement
Onsite
Area of work
Infrastructure & Technology
Employment type
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
Position type
Professional
Travel required
Up to 40% or 2 days a week (home on weekends- based on project requirements)
Company
(0143) IBM Middle East FZ-LLC
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No

Skills Required