Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Consultant

工作内容

Job Description

Job Title: Data and BI consultant

Contract Duration: 01/04/2025-31/03/2026

Work location: 9090 Melle

Remote Status: Hybrid

Languages: Dutch

Description

Client is building a hybrid data and information landscape that is a combination of a SAP-oriented platform (BW and HANA systems) and a data platform on a Microsoft Azure Cloud environment with Power BI as a reporting tool on top of that. Various sources and applications are made accessible to these platforms, built up in different data and information layers, and integrated with each other to build (advanced) analytics use cases and reports. In addition, a domain-oriented organization of data teams has been set up in which the data and BI specialists work on the data and information products of the specific domain.

In order to help build the new data and reporting platform within the Assets & Net domain, we are looking for an experienced Data & BI consultant, who can contribute with his expertise in various BI projects and maintenance assignments on the existing BI & Data Analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Your expertise and technical background allow you to handle BI and data issues "end-to-end": you are responsible for the needs analysis, the technical design, the data modeling in the SAP data platform (BW/HANA) and the Azure Databricks data platform, and also the visualization/reporting in both SAP BI reporting tools (Analysis for Office and SAC) and Power BI.
• Guide the customer through the entire delivery process.
• Provide support to the data team to keep the BI and data platforms operational:
• Execution and follow-up of the daily load jobs and "keep it running" activities.
• Incident & Problem management.
• Follow-up and assistance with planned interventions.
• Follow-up change & release process.
• Point of contact for the business and you provide functional support to the business users, entirely within the Assets & Net domain.

Context

• You will join a self-managing scrum data team of SAP BI and MS Azure BI experts, within which you will perform the following activities:
• In consultation with information analysts, you will make functional analyses/specifications and discuss these with the various stakeholders (you will also ensure the validation of the documents).
• Based on the reporting requirements, you will develop the data model in accordance with the Client BI regulations.
• Responsible for the technical implementation within a SAP BI/MS Azure environment from extraction to final report.
• Follow the usual development cycle within the respective environments.
• Check the work carried out using a predefined test plan and help to make the test data available in order to be able to execute the test cases.
• Ensure that your work fits within our monitoring and alerting set-up so that all errors are immediately visible so that the agreed service levels can be achieved.
• Develop overarching communication and training material, and keep documentation up to date.
• Responsible for the lifecycle management and updates/upgrades of the existing environments.
• Assist the data team in solving technical issues.
• Based on your expertise, you make improvement proposals within the SAP BI framework.
• Assist business in the use of the reporting tools or provide training.
• Think along about the future of BI in the Client framework, prepare the customer for future innovations and guide them in the introduction of these changes.

Additionally:

• Given the strong interaction with the business, a very good knowledge of Dutch (both spoken and written) is necessary.
• Based on his/her expertise, this person must be able to fully participate in the existing team within 2 weeks. Self-organization & great learning ability are essential qualities in this.
• Diplomatic and communicate fluently and transparently with various stakeholders.
• Contribute to better cooperation by exchanging information with colleagues.
• Real team player and actively participate in project work.
• Think pragmatically and solution-oriented within an agreed scope.
• Analyze problems and come up with efficient, simple solutions.
• Work in a structured and documented manner.
• Innovation is one of your strengths, so you are constantly looking for an optimal workable solution.

Candidate Weighting

• 50% quality - 50% price

Domain Skills

• Demonstrable, extensive SAP ISU domain knowledge:
• Demonstrable SAP CS domain knowledge:

Sector Skills

• Demonstrable experience in the Belgian energy sector:
• Knowledge of the processes in the roll-out of the digital meter in Flanders