Overview
The Data Solution Architect will engage in the comprehensive redesign of the SAP Datasphere landscape, focusing on establishing architecture that accommodates business needs while ensuring scalability and governed data semantics. Working collaboratively with both technical teams and business stakeholders, the contractor will develop strategies for data integration and reporting, ensuring adherence to organizational standards and enhancing data quality. This role is vital to implement reusable data models and optimize the consumption of analytics tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI.
Responsibilities
- Lead the redesign of the SAP Datasphere architecture, including tenant management and environment setup.
- Establish scalable space architecture and layering strategies for efficient data processing.
- Design staging, harmonization, and business consumption layers with clear guidelines on object placement and orchestration rules.
- Define reusable facts, dimensions, hierarchies, and analytic models in alignment with common data models.
- Implement governed enterprise semantics within Datasphere and ensure consistent consumption in reporting tools.
- Promote asset reuse to avoid duplication of business logic across analytics platforms.
- Conduct stakeholder engagement to align business needs with technical capabilities.
- Collaborate with technical teams to ensure successful architecture handovers and delivery expectations.
Requirements
- Recent hands-on experience with architecture and production delivery of SAP Datasphere solutions.
- Strong expertise in the SAP ecosystem, including SAP BW/BW4HANA and SAP ECC.
- Experience aligning common data models with metadata and governed semantic models.
- Practical knowledge of Entra ID and SAP IAS with user provisioning experience.
- Experience with tenant strategies and capacity management in Datasphere.
- Strong governance experience with Power BI, including semantic model management.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across technical and business communities.