This is a hands-on, senior role where you’ll partner with stakeholders, architects, and SAP teams to optimise data flows, deliver reporting continuity, and provide strategic guidance for a complex enterprise environment.
Location: Perth CBD (preferred) or anywhere in Australia
Contract Term: 6–12 months
Start Date: Immediate
Daily Rate: Negotiable based on skills and experience
Key Focus Areas
- SAP DSP Data Architect – design the target platform, define patterns.
- Data Engineer / Pipeline Developer – build DSP pipelines and transformations.
- Data Governance Lead – ensure security, lineage, and catalogue accuracy.
- Testing & Validation Lead – maintain data accuracy and reporting reliability.
- Assessment & Planning – analyse existing DSP models, legacy objects, and define migration strategies (lift-and-shift, remodel, hybrid).
- Design & Architecture – design modern DSP pipelines, define target architecture integrating S/4HANA, Azure or MS Fabric, and embed governance/security.
- Implementation & Migration – build pipelines, migrate master/transactional data, optimise DSP-native features.
- Stakeholder Engagement – work with business teams to validate KPIs, dashboards, and communicate design changes effectively.
- Testing & Cutover – reconcile BW vs DSP data, oversee cutover, and manage defect resolution.
- Continuous Improvement – apply DevOps to data pipelines, monitor/optimise performance, enhance governance and lineage documentation.
Technical:
- Deep experience in SAP DSP (DataSphere / Data Intelligence / Data Services)
- Strong ETL, data modelling, semantic layer design, SQL schema & access control
- Integration expertise: SAP BTP, S/4HANA, MS Azure/Fabric, non-SAP sources
- Knowledge of SAC Reporting, Power BI, BW, BODS
- Mapping BW queries to DSP models/SAC dashboards
- KPI validation and business reporting expertise
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement
- Problem-solving mindset in ambiguous, evolving environments
- Adaptable, collaborative, and able to manage competing priorities
- Capable of working independently and delivering to tight timelines
- Senior-level data modelling & engineering experience
- Strong understanding of DevOps delivery practices
- Proven data governance and compliance expertise
- Ability to design, review, and optimise complex dataflows
- Experience in SAP platform upgrades and integration projects