SAP Business Objects Developer

We are currently seeking an SAP Business Objects Developer in Matawan, NJ for a full-time, direct hire opportunity. The SAP Business Objects Developer will participate in the design, realization, and cutover to a new SAP Retail solution.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with ERP Project and IT team members to understand, analyze and articulate complex business requirements and the subsequent analysis and development of quality business reporting that are aligned with the business objectives and IT strategies in accordance with the organization’s standards.
• You will perform design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of Business Objects reports and Universes in BI for the organization reporting initiatives. Additionally, the candidate may develop complex dashboards and advanced analytics as required.
• You will manage interactions with stakeholders across Key Food related to reporting and analytics initiatives, including business need assessment, prioritization of activities, and change management. The individual will serve in an on-call capacity to handle troubleshooting and other issues that arise when required. You will not have responsibility for personnel management.
• Develop in Business Objects to generate ad-hoc reports, canned/standard reports, and dashboards as per the specifications and modify and enhance as needed.
• Create technical specifications for BI reporting.
• Responsible for Business Objects reports and universe architecture, design, writing both data universes and reports.
• Debug and solve problems by tracing from the report all the way to the source. Extensively use back-end functions, procedures, tables, views required by the business objects universes, used BO functionality like Queries, Slice and Dice, Drill down, @Function, Variables, Breaks, Sorting, alerted, applying of filters, Formulae etc.
• Perform data analysis and data profiling against source systems and data warehouse.
• Test solutions to validate whether requirements have been met; develop test plans, test scripts, and test conditions based on the business and system requirements.
• Coordinate and demo prototype reviews and validate that solutions meet requirements and review/fine tune report deliverables.

Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelors (BS) in computer science, Software Engineering, Technology Management, or related field required. Master (MS) preferred.
• 5 years of experience with SAP Business Objects as an administrator and developer (Universe design and Report Development)
• Ability to design universes from star schema (with slowly changing dimensions) & snowflake schema databases/data warehouses.
• Ability to build KPI's, visualizations, stories, drill down, simulation, planning /whatif/predictive/collaboration for Boardroom • Design hybrid data integration /interfaces across cloud and on-premises data sources
• Familiarity with Tableau or QlikView beneficial o SAP ERP Project
• Experience with high volume of data, in performance tuning of BO Universes, and relational databases