DATA ENGINEER
(HYBRID LISBON) Portuguese company hires for hybrid position
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Only candidates already based in Portugal will be considered
Work Model: Hybrid
Language Requirements: English C1 and French — practical working knowledge
Seniority: Senior (5+ years)
Sector: Banking
Rate Between €4700 - 5000 RV / €2800 - 3100 CTI (gross value)
Instructions: Please send your CV in English and make sure to include all skills and experience that match the requirements of the opportunity. This will significantly increase your chances of success.
About The Opportunity
We are looking for a Data Engineer specialising in SAP BusinessObjects to join a BI team and consolidate its platform expertise. You will contribute to enterprise-scale migrations, architecture implementation and optimisation across environments supporting hundreds or thousands of reports and users.
Responsibilities
- Create and evolve SAP BO universes, optimise data models and queries, and design high-performance data pipelines.
- Participate in platform upgrades, including BO4-to-BO5 migrations, and rebuild complex UNV universes as UNX using Information Design Tool (IDT).
- Install and configure SAP BO on enterprise Linux servers across DEV, REC, UAT and PROD.
- Implement user groups, access restrictions and security controls; automate artifact promotion across environments.
- Execute functional, regression, performance and security testing, including report validation.
- Troubleshoot incidents, document architecture and operations, and provide post-go-live support and hypercare.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience and mastery of SAP BO architecture, including Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Auditing, Promotion Management and Lifecycle Management.
- Hands-on UDT-to-IDT migration experience, rebuilding tables, columns, joins, contexts, aliases, derived tables, parameters and security profiles; ability to analyse dependencies between universes, reports, schedules and data sources.
- Strong SAP BO security knowledge covering users, groups, roles, entitlements, row-level, object-level and folder security, and access profiles.
- Expert Linux skills and experience implementing new SAP BO architectures, with knowledge of backup, restore, high availability, disaster recovery, sizing and performance tuning.
- Strong database expertise, including connection migration and reconfiguration across IBM DB2, SAP Sybase, Oracle and SQL Server; familiarity with platforms such as Teradata.
- Experience with auditing, log and performance analysis, root-cause investigation and critical incident resolution.
- Practical Python and data visualisation/analytics experience with tools such as Power BI, Alteryx or Dataiku; ability to produce runbooks, operational procedures, governance standards and migration documentation.
- Relevant university degree or equivalent experience. Preferred: digital product deployment and third-party data governance experience.
Ideal Candidate Profile
An analytical SAP BO specialist who combines platform administration, migration and data expertise. You collaborate effectively with business and technical teams, support change and maintain rigorous quality standards during complex deliveries.
5 Questions for Candidates
- How many years of SAP BO experience do you have, and at what enterprise scale?
- Have you participated in major-version upgrades and complex UNV-to-UNX migrations?
- What experience do you have installing SAP BO on Linux and configuring recovery and high availability?
- Can you describe your approach to security, database connections and migration validation?
- What are your English and French levels, December availability and preferred contract model within the stated compensation?
Keywords
SAP BusinessObjects, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, UNV, UNX, IDT, Linux, SQL, Python, BI, Migration, Performance Tuning
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