SAP BOBJ Platform Consultant

Key Responsibilities

Reporting & Dashboard Development

• Design and develop reports using: - Web Intelligence (WebI)
• Crystal Reports
• Analysis for Office
• SAP Lumira (where applicable)
• Create ad hoc reporting solutions for business users.
• Develop complex queries, calculations, variables, and report formatting
• Build and maintain executive dashboards and KPI reports.

SAP BI Platform Administration

• Install, configure, and administer SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 / BI 2025.
• Manage CMS repositories, FRS servers, and server groups.
• Configure authentication mechanisms:
• Monitor platform health and availability.

Migration & Upgrade Activities

• Participate in migrations from: - BO 4.2 to BO 4.3
• BO 4.3 to BI 2025
• Validate report compatibility and regression testing.
• Perform repository migration and content promotion
• Develop rollback and cutover strategies.

Security & Governance

• Implement role-based security models.
• Manage users, groups, and folder-level permissions.
• Ensure compliance with organizational governance policies.
• Support audit and access-control reviews.

Performance Optimization

• Analyze report and query performance.
• Optimize Universes, SQL generation, and report scheduling.
• Configure caching and server tuning.
• Troubleshoot production performance issues.

Required Technical Skills

SAP BusinessObjects

• SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3
• SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025
• Web Intelligence (WebI)
• Crystal Reports
• Information Design Tool (IDT)
• Universe Designer
• Central Management Console (CMC)
• BI Launch Pad
• Promotion Management

Databases

• SQL Server
• Oracle
• SAP HANA
• DB2
• Snowflake
• PostgreSQL

Data & ETL

• SQL Programming
• Stored Procedures
• Data Warehousing Concepts
• Dimensional Modeling
• Star/Snowflake Schema

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SAP BW and SAP HANA reporting.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, or SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS.
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD deployment processes.
• Understanding of enterprise data governance and metadata management.

Nice-to-Have Experience

• BusinessObjects BI 2025 migration projects.
• Large-scale enterprise reporting modernization.
• Reporting platform consolidation initiatives.
• Hybrid and cloud reporting architectures.
• Insurance, Banking, Healthcare, or Retail domain experience