Saturday, 25 July 2015

Sr. Applications Developer Techtronic Industries Power Equipment - Greenville, South Carolina Area

Techtronic Industries Power Equipment, a subsidiary of TTI, has an opening in its Anderson, SC office for a Sr. Applications Developer. We offer competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package – tuition assistance, 401(k), medical/dental/vision coverage, vacation and holidays. If qualified, please send your resume to careers@ttigroupna.com.

Requirements:
  • Minimum 3 to 5 years’ experience in SAP BO 4.X is required. Knowledge in Dashboard, Report creation and Customization in Business Objects 4.X using Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, SAP Lumira program, and Analysis for Office in addition to knowledge in Multi-system Universe creation using the Business Objects Information Design Tool to join data from BW, R/3 and other source systems is a must.
  • Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience in SAP BW 3.5/7.0 is required. Experience in version SAP BW 7.3 is desirable. Person with extensive Workbench Modeling, Workbench Administration and BEx Query Optimization is a must.
  • Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience in SAP ABAP Programming is required. Knowledge in Object Oriented programming is an advantage.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop data Models in Business Objects.
  • Report Creation and maintenance in Business Objects.
  • Data Structures and Process development in Business Warehouse.
  • Report Creation and maintenance in Business Warehouse.
  • Create extraction programs in SAP R/3 for Data Warehousing.
  • Perform other duties as assigned. 

About this company

Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. is a world-class leader in design, manufacturing and marketing of power tools and accessories, outdoor power equipment and floor care for consumers, professional and industrial users in the home improvement, repair and construction industries. Our unrelenting strategic focus on powerful brands, innovative products, operational excellence and exceptional people drive our culture. This focus and drive provides TTI with a powerful platform for sustainable leadership and strong growth. Our brands and products are recognized worldwide for their deep heritage, superior quality, outstanding performance and compelling innovation.


Equal Opportunity EmployerTechtronic Industries Power Equipment is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. 

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant (BusinessObjects) – Middle East (Qatar) Clariba - Doha, Qatar

Clariba, recognised as one of the leading SAP partners in EMEA, is an independent, expert consultancy that provides industry-focused solutions for enterprise performance management, business intelligence and organisational alignment.

We have immediate openings for a Senior BI Consultant in Qatar office to participate in complex design, development and coordination of challenging BI projects involving SAP Business Objects technology as well as ETL, Database & Data Warehouse tools and best practices.

The ideal candidate is an upper-intermediate level BI professional with proven abilities in SAP BusinessObjects Platform design, development and administration and has hands on experience with client tools, including Web Intelligence, Dashboards (Xcelsius), Universe Designer, Data Services, CMC, etc. This person should also have intermediate Data Warehousing, ETL and Database Administration skills and experience. The individual is committed to achieving customer results on time and on budget, investigating new technology and solutions for our customers, building and sharing knowledge within our team and striving for excellence in all of our BI projects.

Desired Skills and Experience

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
  • High level of SQL and good knowledge of data modelling is required
  • Expert knowledge of tools from SAP BusinessObjects Portfolio (WebI, Dashboards, Explorer, etc..) is required
  • 3-5 years of experience installing, administering and managing SAP BO BI platform is required
  • Experience working within consultancy teams on medium to high complexity BI customer projects is required
Desired Technical Skills & Experience:
  • Knowledge of ETL processes and demonstrated experience with ETL tools is desirable (i.e. SAP Data Services or Informatica PowerCenter)
  • Experience with database management is desirable
  • Experience with other visualization BI tools (e.g. Tableau, QlikView, SAP system Lumira) is desirable
  • SAP Certified Application Associate in BusinessObjects BI4 or XI3.1 Certification is highly desirable
  • Experience in managing medium complexity BI projects is desireable
Required Competencies:
  • Ability to commit to customer milestones, deadlines and service levels (Fixed Price projects preferred)
  • Ability to work independently (and occasionally alone in a customer environment) while proactively updating Project Manager on status, challenges and milestones
  • Developing leadership skills and experience training or supervising tasks for junior developers
  • Excellent communicator and very transparent – providing timely updates to Senior Project Manager or Operations Manager for projects, risks, customer or employee issues
  • Fluent English both written and spoken
  • Customer facing profile with excellent communication & presentation skills
  • Autonomous thinking and proactive approach to investigating and discovering solutions
  • Understanding of best practice project management methodology
  • Ability to manage low to medium complexity BI projects independantly would be an definite asset

Work Environment Requirements:
  • Availability for extensive travel in Middle East region
  • Ability to work in multicultural environment
  • Ability to multi-task with a variety of customers and projects
  
Education:
  • University Level Degree (preferred in Engineering or IT) / Masters in Information Technology

 What we offer:
  • An international and multicultural environment with the opportunity to work in one of the IT sector’s most exciting and interesting growth areas
  • Annual Performance Plan, Employee Development Plans, and training and certification paths
  • Opportunities to gain responsibility, grow your BI career and progress through our Talent Management Program based on motivation, dedication and skill development
  • The chance to gain valuable technical, project management and communication skills
  • Competitive salary and Project Profit Share program (opportunity to earn 5% on top of salary after 1st year in company)
Why Work with Clariba?
  • Highly regarded by SAP and customers, reputable company in BI internationally
  • Collaborative, non-competitive team, with strong focus on knowledge sharing and learning
  • Visibility in high profile projects; be seen and gain more responsibility within a growing company
  • Career path for aspiring project managers and team leaders
  • New projects in EMEA with confidence of Tier 1 customers
  • Fun, young, close-knit team of colleagues
  • International BI experience, work in English, gain experience in new environment and culture
  • Development plans for enhancing technical skills and business competencies

Senior SAP BI Consultant CSC - Brussels Area, Belgium

As a Senior SAP BI Consultant, you will build world-class solutions to our clients in order to enable them better decision making.
  • You provide business process decision support at strategic, tactical and operational level
  • You determine data warehousing strategy, select tools and techniques to devise the solution
  • You are the driver behind the architecture and act as a coach for the development team
  • You fine-tune, implement and promote BI and Big Data strategies
  • You focus on collecting and analyzing internal and external data to generate meaning and value for the organization
  • You are eager to turn raw data in strategic information and propose creative solutions for presenting dashboards, KPI’s and operational reports.
  • You will develop, implement and test software with the different SAP BI solutions (SAP BW, SAP Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP BPC, SAP Lumira program, etc.)
  • You will lead your customer in the transformation of traditional BI into Analytics and Data Science through the promotion of SAP solutions and roadmap in this area (SAP HANA, SAP Predictive Analysis, etc.) and your experience of integrating SAP products with specific analytics language or solutions (R, NetBase, etc.)
  • You will support the development and the promotion of CSC specific offering related to Big Data & Analytics 

Desired Skills and Experience

  • You have a university degree or equivalent based on experience
  • You have at least 5 years experience in SAP BI solutions (SAP BW, BusinessObjects) ; knowledge of SAP ECC or SAP Business Suite is an asset.
  • You have a deep understanding of SAP HANA capabilities in the BI area (integration with BW, SAP HANA Studio, SAP HANA Live) and ideally hands-on experience.
  • You have a basic knowledge of Big Data concepts (model, language, solution) and how those concepts could be technically integrated into SAP solutions.
  • You have experience with the design of BI strategies and processes tailored to the organization’s needs
  • You have successfully implemented and supported BI strategies and processes (maintenance processes, definition of new reporting requirements, monitoring, data quality process authorization management)
  • You have experience with the definition of training programs for BI users, with setting up documentation strategies and roles concepts for BI
  • You have good communication, coordination and people skills and you are able to organize workshops with senior and middle management
  • You are fluent in Dutch/French and English
  • You are flexible and apt to work in a continuously challenging and changing environment

SAP BODS Consultant Cognizant Technology Solutions - US-North Carolina-Hickory - NC USA, CLT

Cognizant Technology Solutions is seeking a “ SAP BODS Consultant “; the resource should have strong experience in SAP BODS, BW,ECC, We are looking for a skilled and experienced SAP BODS Consultant to join our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills, are looking for an opportunity to be rewarded for your skills and expertise, is the ideal opportunity for you! 

Job Summary: 

The candidate would be working in SAP Data Services(DS) & Information Steward(IS) projects. Expected to work independently or with teams on design of complex ETL flows and Data Quality jobs. 

Will be required to work in data warehousing, migration & integration scenarios in SAP as well as non-SAP environments. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Profiling various information systems, capture source/target mappings and transformations based on project requirements
  • Designing complex SAP Data Services job flows to extract from/load to SAP systems such as SAP ECC, CRM, SCM, BW, HANA as well as non-SAP systems such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, Teradata
  • Experience with DI transforms such as Query, Validation, Case transforms as well as DQ transforms such as Match, Associate, Data Cleanse & Address Cleans
  • Tuning jobs for high volume and complex transformation scenarios
  • Configuring DS components including job server and repositories
  • Setting up DS data stores to connect to variety of data sources such as SAP HANA, SAP R/3, SAP BW, Oracle, MS SQL Server , Teradata
  • Develop jobs to extract data from SAP Extractors & Tables, SAP BW DSOs, load to BW PSA
  • Automation of DS/IS jobs using in-built and third party schedulers
  • Developing and executing advanced data profiling, data validation scenarios
  • Building IS scorecards and custom Business Objects reports for Data Quality reporting
  • E xperience in loading data into HANA
  • Working independently, conduct assessments and meetings with client on SAP DS/IS capabilities
  • Working on new initiatives and features. Developing case studies


Minimum Qualifications: 

  • 7 years of experience in SAP Data Services (3.2/4.0 onwards)
  • 2 years of experience in SAP related projects
  • Working experience or knowledge of SAP Information Steward (Rules development, Profiling Rules development, Scorecard setup and basic IS administration)
  • At least 2 end to end DS implementations/1 IS implementation
  • Knowledge of relational and dimensional modeling
  • Working experience in SAP HANA/SAP BW using with BODS is must
  • Self-starter with innovative mind set to leverage all organizational facilities to learn newer technologies independently, help build prototypes, engage in skillset training to others
  • Experienced in onsite-offshore model


Desired additional qualifications 

  • Working experience in SAP DS/IS installation and configuration on linux/windows servers
  • Experience in Data migration projects
  • Knowledge of Hadoop, Hive, Pig; BODS Hadoop integration
  • Working experience in Real time job setup
  • Experience in SAP HANA - Data provisioning and modeling
  • Knowledge of BO reporting tools like Information Design Tool, Web Intelligence, Lumira
 
Equal Opportunities Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V 

Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran. If you require accessibility assistance applying for open positions in the US please send an email with your request to CareersNorthAmerica@cognizant.com

Technical Project Manager, Reporting & Analytics Apple - Singapore, SG

This is a technical project management role that sits within Apple’s Pacific Reporting & Analytics Unit based in Singapore.
This team ensures that projects are delivered on time and on budget, through managing business requirements, project plans and resources to achieve the best possible outcomes. Successful candidate for the role will need to be an experienced, results-oriented project manager who has a track record of success in reporting, business intelligence, analytics and application development.
This is a hands-on role for someone who is an in the Supply Chain and Logistics expert at personally delivering complex software development / engineering projects and who is equally comfortable with waterfall and agile / iterative approaches. It involves managing and working with regional and global cross functional teams.

Description
Manage all aspects of a project including planning, resourcing, analysis, design, implementation, documentation, status reporting, risk management, change management and post implementation review.
Work closely with business teams, providing thought leadership on the direction and scope of their initiatives in addition to providing a clear view of project progress, resource and budget utilisation.
Keep close tabs on the current trends and emerging opportunities coming out of China, with an eye to bringing ideas and concepts into view of the regional teams.
Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to identify new ideas, define requirements, create projects; and assist in securing the appropriate budgets and resources required to deliver them successfully.
Drive assigned projects and taking ownership for their success – both in terms of project delivery and business outcomes.
Act as a positive ambassador for the Pacific Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) function and always adhering to Apple’s Business Conduct guidelines, IS&T principles and standards.
Key Matching TermsJOB-2015-0268590
Education DetailsMinimum Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline.

Key Qualifications
Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, with proven track records in data warehousing, data modelling, business intelligence & analytics; working with technologies like Teradata, Oracle, Hadoop, Verticas, SAP HANA, Business Objects and visualisation tools like Tableau, SAP Lumira, etc.
A strong project manager who can manage a portfolio of complex, fast moving projects in a dynamic environment where requirements and the business environment can change rapidly.
A financially astute individual that has proven history managing budgets and resources within a complex and cross functional project environment.
A natural problem-solver who demonstrates a sense of urgency, and who is willing and able to push hard to ensure their objectives are achieved, whilst maintaining excellent relationships with multiple stakeholders.
Skilled in building and maintaining strong relationships beyond the technology community to work effectively with non-technical business contacts, dealing with people in different time zones, from different cultural backgrounds and with different objectives.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present to non-technical audiences and the ability to speak authoritatively and confidently in high-pressured situations and environments.
Meticulous attention to detail and a tight focus on excellence, ensuring the highest possible standards at all time in support of Apple’s values.
Prior exposure to working on China related projects and understanding of the complexities of doing business in China, will be an advantage.
Fluent in English and Mandarin.
CAPM, PMP or Agile Scrum Master Certification (Desirable)

About this company

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, the Mac and Apple Watch. Apple’s three software platforms — iOS, OS X and watchOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.

Apple is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.