Data Product Owner - SAP HUB

Opella; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Opella seeks a senior data engineer/architect to drive SAP data extraction and modeling, bridging SAP BW environments with lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks and Datasphere. You will shape the product backlog, define user stories, and guide cross-functional teams while ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance.

The role focuses on delivering scalable reporting solutions, coordinating with SAP experts, and leading daily agile ceremonies to meet SLAs and business needs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in relevant role or project management
• Experience with Agile methodologies and strong communication
• SAP data extraction and modeling expertise is essential
• Familiarity with SAP analytics ecosystem and integration patterns
• Knowledge of Snowflake is a plus

Responsibilities

• Define prioritization of stakeholder requirements and refine backlog
• Communicate product vision and roadmap; align with organization goals
• Define user stories and accept them from delivery team
• Ensure quality, security and regulatory compliance in architecture
• Own test definition, execution, and validation of functional/non-functional requirements
• Collaborate with SAP experts to ensure data integrity in SAP HUB
• Lead KPIs and technical metrics; monitor daily jobs to meet SLA
• Prepare training materials and SOPs; document technical knowledge

Skills

SAP BW Extractors

CDS Views

SAP BW

SAP Datasphere

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS

BDC (SAP Business Data Cloud)

Data modeling

ETL

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT or Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Opella is hiring key contributors to onboard Opella Digital transformation journey and to embrace the Digital capabilities. SAP systems are a key component of this digital transformation. Opella uses an important number of SAP systems, and one of the main objectives of the CHC SAP HUB is to extract, union and provide data of these SAPs for the different consumers (Data Foundations, Data Products, IA, Reporting, …).

The Product Owner will define the objectives of the team, feed the backlog by collecting and answering business expectations, ensuring the delivery, respecting the SLA defined and playing a significant role in quality control.

The SAP HUB is also a key component for classical SAP reporting, which facilitates the development of reporting solutions thanks to the fact all SAP data are available in one place.

Main responsibilities:

• Define the prioritization of business stakeholders' requirements and its continuous refinement
• Communicate the product vision and roadmap in alignment with broader organization goals
• Negotiate Yes/No with the partners and with the delivery team; empowered to make decisions related to product features, backlog prioritization, release planning.
• Define user stories and accept them from the delivery team.
• Ensures good practices in architecture to meet applicable quality, regulatory (Data Privacy, GxP, SOX, etc.) and cybersecurity requirements.
• Own the definition, set up, and execution of test cases to ensure the solution meets functional and non-functional requirements
• Work with architects and provide guidance to stakeholders to define the best way to provide reporting
• Ensure the development of a unified model as output of the SAP HUB
• Collaborate closely with functional and technical SAP experts to facilitate extraction and to ensure integrity of the data in the SAP HUB
• Collaborate with partners, Digital M&S, Digital Corporate, Digital Commercial and local & regional partners, plus with Sanofi SAP HUB team
• Lead operational performance indicators and technical metrics
• Ensure the resolution of potential issues during extractions
• Provide consistent updates to leadership and executives, making communication easy and clear regarding product issues and decisions to be made. Support business case creation
• Promote usability standards and design solutions with a high-quality
• Proactively monitor the daily jobs to ensure SLA are respected
• Animate the daily and agile ceremonies
• Prepare and maintain training material and SOPs, knowledge base articles and technical documentation

Core Experience (Must-Have)

• Hands-on data extraction using SAP BW Extractors and CDS Views
• Strong data modeling experience with SAP BW and CDS Views
• Proven track record extracting SAP data into modern data platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, or equivalent cloud data ecosystems
• Working knowledge of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP Datasphere
• Familiarity with the broader SAP analytics ecosystem and integration patterns

Cherry on the Cake (Differentiators)

• Experience extracting data to hyperscalers via BDC / Datasphere using Zero Copy functionality
• Primary: Databricks
• Secondary: Snowflake
• Demonstrated delivery of zero-copy data sharing architectures in production

Additional Valuable Skills

• Exposure to FinOps practices for cloud data workloads
• Important: these are complementary — strong SAP background is non-negotiable

Profile Summary

A senior data engineer / architect with deep SAP extraction and modeling expertise, capable of bridging traditional SAP BW environments with modern lakehouse / cloud platforms, ideally through next-gen BDC and Datasphere zero-copy patterns.

About you

Minimum Experience & Knowledge Required

• 10 years+ experience in relevant role OR in Project Management
• Strong understanding and experience in Agile methodology and techniques
• Very good communication level and engagement skills, both written and verbal
• Management of internal and external people
• Knowledge of ETL processing
• Knowledge of SAP
• Data engineering or Modeling background is a plus
• Knowledge of Snowflake is a plus
• Experience leading multi-department and multi-cultural teams: clarifying requirements, resolving conflicts, defining roadmap and driving progress
• Agile Mindset and Practices (Advanced)
• Consumer Experience (Advanced)
• Digital strategy & Governance (Advanced)
• Digital Project Management (Advanced)
• Application Design & Integration (Advanced)
• Compliance of Computerized systems (Intermediate)

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering