Role : SAP BDC Principal level Consultant

Duration : Fulltime, Contract

Location : Remote/ Hyderabad

We are looking for a candidate who has deep expertise in BDC and SAC with 15+ years of experience.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead comprehensive SAP BW landscape analysis, Datasphere and remediation activities related to S/4HANA program impacts, including alignment with future-state BDC, Lakehouse architectures.

- Conduct detailed user activity and BW object usage analysis using ST03N, RSR, RSZ logs, and metadata to inform modernization and migration decisions.

- Perform top down and bottom up BW object lineage analysis - from BEx Queries through InfoProviders to DataSources - at the field and transformation level.

- Identify, classify, and rationalize active, inactive, and redundant BW objects; contribute to disposition and modernization strategy across BW, Databricks, Datasphere, and BDC.

- Map BEx queries and BW reporting objects to downstream consumer systems (Power BI, SAC, Tableau, etc.) to establish end to end data lineage and reporting impact.

- Document OpenHub, external extractors, and integration flows; identify common InfoProviders and opportunities to transition workloads into Datasphere/BDC data products.

- Contribute to BW optimization, prioritization, and disposition recommendation reports, including pathways for migration into Datasphere and BDC semantic models.

- Deliver technical debt and data debt analysis to support BW cleanup, S/4 readiness, and future-state cloud data platform alignment.

- Support reporting and analytics requirements related to BW, Datasphere, and BDC metadata consumption.

- Participate in project kick offs, scope alignment sessions, and stakeholder review workshops across business, IT, and data platform teams.

- Ensure all deliverables meet agreed upon acceptance criteria, quality standards, and milestone timelines.

- Work in a global environment cross country and cross region teams with highly collaborative and exceptional communication skills in English.

Required Skills and Experience :

- 15+ years of hands-on experience with SAP BW (BW 7.x and/or BW/4HANA).

- Strong Knowledge of SAP BDC, Databricks, Lakehouse architecture, Datasphere, Foundation services and Data engineering pipelines.

- Strong knowledge of BW object types : InfoCubes, DSOs, MultiProviders, CompositeProviders, InfoObjects, OpenHub Destinations.

- Deep experience with BEx Query Designer, Analysis for Office (AFO), and BW metadata analysis.

- Proficiency with BW T-codes : RSA1, RSA2, RSPC, RSISET, SE16, DB02, ST03N.

- Experience with BW lineage analysis and object dependency tracing (Top-Down and Bottom-Up).

- Strong understanding of ECC-to-BW data extraction patterns.

- Understanding of ECC source table structures and extractor/DataSource field mapping.

- Experience working with SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) dashboards - configuration and customization.

- Knowledge of BW landscape rationalization, decommissioning principles, and usage-based classification.

- Able to read and interpret ABAP transformation code at a functional level (ABAP development not required).

- Strong documentation skills; ability to produce client-ready analytical reports and recommendations.

- Experience with BW/4HANA migration or assessment projects.

- Deep hands on knowledge of SAP Datasphere or BDC (Business Data Cloud).

- Familiarity with Power BI or Tableau from a BW data consumer perspective.

- Experience with SAP RISE or cloud-hosted BW environments.

- Knowledge of Cloud data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, GCP Bigquery etc)