Senior Functional Consultant - SAP HANA

Office in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune

SAP HANA Platform

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We are seeking a Senior Functional Consultant - SAP HANA to lead and deliver high-impact SAP HANA projects, bridging technical and business teams to drive robust data solutions and analytics across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of SAP HANA developers and analysts, providing strategic direction and technical oversight
Manage and coordinate activities with Product Owners, Business Users and stakeholders to gather requirements and prioritize tasks
Act as a liaison between technical teams and business users, translating business needs into actionable technical solutions
Foster collaboration and communication within the team through regular meetings and proactive issue resolution
Ensure team adherence to project timelines, performance standards and organizational goals
Leverage core SAP HANA technologies such as calculation views, procedures and table functions to develop robust data models
Employ advanced techniques including hierarchies, time-dependent models, currency conversion and input-ready models to enhance modeling capabilities
Optimize HANA database performance by analyzing, troubleshooting and adjusting SQL procedures, queries, views and indexes
Build new data integrations from sources like SAP BW, Salesforce, GA4, IoT and Azure Blob using SAP Data Services, Alteryx or Python into SAP HANA
Expose data in SAP HANA to external platforms including websites via OData, SFTP folders and writing data back to Salesforce
Perform impact assessments for new developments and changes in SAP ERP (FI/CO, SD, MM, PS)
Create and manage SAP views to support reporting and analytics requirements
Perform SAP BW troubleshooting and impact assessments on SAP BW objects when changes are introduced in related systems
Manage virtual connections and integrations between SAP HANA and BW
Develop and enable reporting solutions in SAP Analysis for Office and Power BI
Support Data Science initiatives by providing data to data scientists
Develop and integrate complex ETL/ELT workflows in HANA using SAP Data Services and Alteryx
Set up and manage HANA to BW virtual connections for real-time data provisioning and federated reporting
Monitor and support issues encountered in data integrations pipeline

Requirements

5–8 years of working experience in SAP HANA, SAP ERP and SAP BW
Knowledge of SAP HANA modeling including calculation views, attribute views and analytic views
Background in SAP ERP core business processes such as finance, sales and distribution, materials management and project systems
Skills in SAP Data Services, Alteryx and Python for data integration
Expertise in SAP Analysis for Office and Power BI for analytics enablement
Proficiency in developing and integrating ETL/ELT workflows in HANA
Competency in troubleshooting SAP BW and managing virtual connections between SAP HANA and BW
Understanding of advanced SAP HANA modeling techniques including hierarchies, time-dependent models and currency conversion
Familiarity with exposing SAP HANA data to external platforms via OData and SFTP
Capability to perform impact assessments for SAP ERP and SAP BW changes
Qualifications in optimizing HANA database performance through SQL procedures, queries and indexes