Senior SAP BO Data Engineer – Migrations & Optimization

Axians | Digital Solutions - Tech Talent; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee assistance program

Training & certifications

Performance bonus

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Axians is seeking a SAP BO Technical Expert to join our Lisbon-based team, delivering design, migration, and optimization of SAP Business Objects across enterprise environments.

The role focuses on universes, data models, security, and platform stability, with collaboration across multilingual teams and stakeholders to ensure high-performance reporting and governance. You will implement platform upgrades, mentor colleagues, and contribute to post-go-live support while maintaining best practices.

Qualifications

• University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in large enterprise SAP BI environments supporting extensive reporting ecosystems.
• Expertise in SAP BO upgrades, migrations, and architecture implementation projects.
• Experience with multiple database technologies and complex data environments.
• Knowledge of digital product deployments and third-party data governance is a plus.
• Experience in large-scale international environments is valued.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• French language skills are an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve SAP BO Universes (UNV and UNX).
• Participate in SAP BO platform upgrade and migration projects.
• Design and optimize high-performance data models, queries, and pipelines.
• Implement and manage SAP BO security models (users, groups, roles).
• Install, configure, maintain SAP BO environments on Linux servers.
• Migrate SAP BO connections across databases.
• Perform functional, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Analyze dependencies between universes, reports, schedules, and data sources.
• Monitor platform performance and resolve incidents.
• Produce technical documentation, migration documentation, and governance standards.
• Support post-go-live activities and hypercare.

Skills

SAP Business Objects

SQL Databases

IDT / UNV/UNX

Linux administration

Data pipelines

Security models

Python

Power BI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

SAP BO Universe Design Tool

Information Design Tool (IDT)

Linux servers

Power BI

Alteryx

Dataiku

Python

Job description

Axians is seeking a SAP BO Technical Expert to join our Lisbon-based team, delivering design, migration, and optimization of SAP Business Objects across enterprise environments.

The role focuses on universes, data models, security, and platform stability, with collaboration across multilingual teams and stakeholders to ensure high-performance reporting and governance. You will implement platform upgrades, mentor colleagues, and contribute to post-go-live support while maintaining best practices.