Deputy Director - SAP Platforms & Solutions

Overview

• Strategic Leadership: Provide guidance and leadership on new SAP technologies and capabilities

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers, ensuring adherence to best practices and approved coding standards

• Design / Functional Leadership: Lead in the creation and design of functional specifications. Ensure full understandings of the core SAP function modules and specifications adhere to business processes

• Collaboration: Work with functional teams, project managers, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs

• Documentation: Create technical and functional documentation. Update our documentation systems for technical users and business users.

• Support sustain teams: Provide ongoing support and leadership to our sustain team. This involves key monitoring of Early watch reports and ensure efficient operations

Responsibilities

• As part of the PGCS PGT Analytics, this role will be responsible for leading the end to end Analytics Delivery.
• The role will be primarily responsible for design, develop, govern and deliver the PGCS analytics program.
• Own seamless technical and functional migration as a part of the S4 migration across all  functional Areas – Supply Chain, Sales & Distribution, GTM, Finance, Equipment Service, Food Service for PGCS SAP.
• Deliver and prepare a global re-usable analytics playbook template and approach which can be leveraged across PGCS and identify synergies . Own and perform detailed technical design and governance review for the technical solutioning for SAP S4 to SAP BW, migration of BW data sources and downstream applications , optimize and standardize the code, implement best practices as a part of the Global Analytics Playbook focussing on PGCS market.
• Ensure smooth migration and retrofit from ECC to SAP S4 , manage Delivery ,Development and Governance across technical areas of Data Warehouse, ETL, SAP BW, BOBJ, EDW, Azure data lake (EDF & Sector Lake), other integrations etc.
• Collaborate and partner closely with the Sector Stake holders, Business, migration partners, SAP migration SME’s like SNP, Smartshift and  internal cross functional teams to ensure smooth delivery and migration for BU products/Sector/Global Products like NRM, Mosaic, sDNA, E2E waste management etc. which span across diverse/multi region and complex SAP and downstream landscapes.
• Resource to be part of DSO team. Responsible to analyse issues/tickets raised by business and coordinate with business associates to have a resolution as per SLA.
• For the Enhancements/new report requirements, own requirements gathering, design, delivery, testing and user training of reporting and analytics solutions within the scope of PepsiCo Global Template.
• Partner with the Value Stream Leads to verify the issue resolution before implementation and deploy – Consult / Execute
• Work closely and collaborate with onshore and offshore team members and business partners to ensure timely delivery of the work.
• Adopt and adhere to Agile principles and values (see www.agilemanifesto.org):
  • Adopt development practices which focus on quality and value, while increasing efficiency, and minimizing waste
  • Foster an environment where communication, teamwork, and innovation are encouraged
  • Help to implement Agile engineering best practices such as continuous integration, automation of testing and delivery, and continuous peer review within teams.
• Design, develop, and maintain SAP BW solutions including InfoProviders, Transformations, DTPs, Process Chains, Composite Providers, and BEx Queries. This requires solid understanding of SAP BW on HANA and how it integrates with HANA DB.
• Design and develop SAP HANA XS Classic models including Calculation Views, Table Functions and SQL Stored Procedures
• Design and develop SAP HANA XS Advanced models including Calculation Views, Table Functions, SQL Stored Procedures, Flowgraphs and Replication tasks
• Create and mange Extraction Transformation Loading (ETL) data flows using SAP BW Extractors, SAP Smart Data Integration (SDI) and Smart Data Access (SDA).
• Support data integration and reporting solutions based on the SAP modules related to Supply Chain, Financial reporting, Manufacturing, Operations, Master data. 

Qualifications

• 11 - 14 years of SAP BW / HANA experience 
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or Equivalent
• Experience in managing a development team
• Experience / knowledge of other data warehouse technologies including Databricks / Microsoft Fabric
• Deep knowledge of eHANA, SQL, SAP BW
• Familiarity with adjacent enterprise platforms: SAP ECC, S4, SDI, SLT, Microsoft Data fabric
• SAP BW on HANA- 6+ Y
• HANA XSA and XSC​- 4 Y
• Should have strong experience in at least 2 SAP functional Area - FI/SD/MM/TPM/P2P etc
• Should have managed a team - at least 4-5 people
• Techno Functional role
• DevOps experience including GIT strategy and Pipeline creation and implementations 
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
• Ability to work flexible hours based on varying business requirements
• Knowledge and experience in the following tools, disciplines and processes are nice to have: SAP Solman, HP-ALM, Sharepoint, ServiceNow etc.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes in technologies, timelines and sequences
• Desired: At least 1-2 years of major SAP transformation project with experience in
  • Functional & technical solution design & development
  • Develop project deliverables - formal/structured methodology
  • Analyze requirements definition/mapping & apply required configuration changes
  • Development, execution and hypercare
  • UAT execution lead role for a specific area
  • Functional & Technical Workshop delivery
• SAP BOBJ
• Power Bi
• SDI integration
• SQL coding and debugging skills
• Azure / SAP Databricks
• Knowledge of Datasphere
• GitHub.com / Azure Dev Ops experience including Pipelines and GIT
• Python/Node.js experience
• Strong knowledge of SQL for HANA development. Good proficiency in ABAP coding.
• Knowledge of python, yaml, node.js and javascript would be an advantage.