Job Description

Our Valued Public Sector Client is seeking a Senior Secret Cleared Application/Software Architect to Develop Technical Architectures, Roadmaps, Frameworks and Strategies for SAP Applications within the BW / BI /HANA Space

For Context: Since 2010, under the Administrative Services Review, initiated from Budget 2010, the government has pursued opportunities to standardize, consolidate, and improve the way it delivers services to Canadians and be more accountable to the people of Canada by being able to better report on where financials are being spent. Budgets 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 confirmed the government\xe2\x80\x99s on-going commitment to streamlining, consolidating and standardizing administrative functions and operations within and across organizations within the GC. The Client\'s priority is to modernize finance, materiel, and people management information systems are to ensure that its workforce is highly responsive to ever-changing program needs and is capable of delivering against the demand for additional reporting. The Program is delivering an IT-enabled financial and material management solution for the Government of Canada based on SAP S4HANA for use by a cluster of small GC organizations. In addition to the internal S4/HANA workload they also provide support to an SAP ECC cluster of twenty-five departments with Webi Intelligence reporting solution built on Native Hana.

Must Haves:

• 60+ months as an SAP BOBJ Application architect (HANA Universe, Direct HANA connectivity, BW Back-end)
• 3+ Projects designing the topology of the BOBJ environment
• SECRET Clearance

• Drive and develop technical architectures, roadmap, frameworks, and strategies, for SAP application within the Business Warehouse (BW)/Business Intelligence (BI)I/HANA space, to meet the business and application requirements.
• Develop and draft forms, manuals, programs, data files, and procedures
• Develop and draft reports, dashboards, universes, info cubes, business warehouse, data sets
• Develop and draft configuration and design documents of BI Tools, Universes, info cubes
• Configure and manage SAP Business Objects BI Platform
• Ensure the integration of SAP BW/BI/HANA with overall organizational architecture.
• Identify the policies and requirements that drive out a particular solution.
• Monitor industry trends to ensure that solutions fit with government and industry directions for technology.
• Analyze functional requirements to identify information, procedures and decision flows.
• Evaluate existing procedures and methods, identify and document database content, structure, and application sub-systems, and develop data dictionary.
• Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application sub-systems to external systems and between new and existing systems.
• Define input/output sources, including detailed plan for technical design phase, and present proposed system.
• Identify and document system specific standards relating to programming, documentation and testing, covering program libraries, data dictionaries, naming conventions, and any other standards.
• Guide blueprint workshops, facilitate decisions on best practice solutions, guide configuration, facilitate subsequent testing, and provide Go-Live support
• Provide support in daily operational tasks, analysis, diagnosis, recommendation, configuring, and implementation to changes, bugs and emergency fixes.
• Provide support for operational releases and projects by making changes due to functional modifications in new projects or operational changes.
• Develop functional needs of a system or project
• Identify and document functional, business, and system interface or capability interaction.
• Develop, design, perform and implement methods, configuration, business warehouse and procedures for computer systems, and sub-systems of larger systems
• Document modifications and updates
• Submit progress or status reports using existing templates or MS Project Server

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