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SAP BW/4 Developer

This role will be Hybrid Swindon based.

Who are we?

Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.

At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.

In Team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal to protect our greatest natural resource and allow our customers, communities, and the environment to thrive.

You will be joining a small group of IT & SAP Professionals and you have the authority to put your own stamp on the company’s SAP BW/4Hana landscape. You will have direct responsibilities for implementing new solution developments within SAP BW/4 reporting, as well as help maintain the integrity of the current BW/4Hana architecture.

This role combines a blend of technical SAP BW/4 work, but with the added responsibility of working closely with the end users/consumers. This therefore demands a high degree of stakeholder engagement and ability to make the technical sound simple is an essentially required skill.

To be successful you will already have good:

• Hands-on experience working with SAP BW on HANA and BW/4 HANA features among others, standard and custom SAP BW Extractors, complex transformations, advanced DSOs, composite providers, exposing BW models as HANA views, mixed (hybrid) scenarios
• Strong experience in writing ABAP code – for user exits, routines and transformations.
• Should have experience in SAP IS-U Extraction, Query design and Analysis for Office
• Hands-on experience with Native HANA data modelling
• Awareness of FI/CO & FI/CA business processes
• Excellent communications skills

What you will be doing

• In conjunction with the BI Architect, develop a pervasive BW/4 reporting layer that strives to exceed the data and informational needs of the TW business.

• Be deployed as part of virtual project team to provide input across the full project life-cycle, at times guiding the solution from concept through to post implementation support

• Work with business stakeholders to ensure the underlying data in BW/4HANA brings the product owners vision to life.

• Elicit or utilise previously captured requirements, to build or amend existing data structures in order to meet scoped user stories and ensure data and information requirements are clearly met as per the product backlog.
• Ensure built BW/4/HANA objects are efficient, sustainable, scalable and simple
• Participate and contribute in Agile ceremonies and governance
• Effectively communicating delivery expectations.

What you will bring

• Strategic thinker who can see the big picture and ask the astute questions to drive business outcomes
• 3-5 years’ experience in HANA & BW related ABAP coding (User Exits and Transformations)
• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience in BW/4HANA
• Ability to build SAP BW/4HANA and SAP BW solutions, including data modelling using LSA/LSA++ methodologies, extract-transformation-load (ETL) processes, BW query creation, Composite providers, Advanced DSOs and using BW objects exposed as HANA views.
• Experience and ability in HANA native SQL coding development and analysis
• Experience with extraction from SAP Source Systems (standard/custom data sources & SLT)
• Ability to rapidly understand the business needs and environments, future trends, opportunities and constraints in any business domain
• Blend of multitasking experience i.e. working on new projects virtually whilst also maintaining a degree of BAU support.
• Track record of delivering user training

As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation in order to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround... as part of the Digital team what role are they playing in making this happen.

What you should bring to the role

We want to bring together a team of brilliant tech minds with game changing ideas. We’re looking for people who will help us re-imagine the way we work and the way we get things done:

• A truly digital mindset. Open to collaboration. Open to risk. Open to new ways of doing things.
• Obsessed with data. Obsessed with excellence.
• People who think and behave differently to the way we do. People who don’t want to just be another cog in the machine.

What’s in it for you?

It’s an incredibly exciting time to join Team Digital, the best people to tell you why, are the people in our team. Take a look at the video below to find out what they think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmELR_xmXhw&list=PL37gUk7p48rqLEm-KEkgKuyDpLYsW5LH9&index=12

We’re proud of the positive ways of working we’ve adopted during the pandemic, creating a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we’re moving to a hybrid approach with various options across working from home, office and our sites.

Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career, flexible working arrangements and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

We’re also proud to embrace and promote diversity and believe that creating a workforce that reflects the communities we serve will help us to thrive. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water

We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. This means, when a crisis happens, we all rally round to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an Ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and a earn bit of extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. This is so we can manage all the applications properly and give candidates a positive experience. Once closed, we can’t consider any further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.