ERP Analytics & Reporting Lead

corteva; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Corteva is seeking an experienced Enterprise Analytics & Reporting Lead to own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise reporting, analytics, and data warehousing solutions. You will lead across SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, Power BI, Databricks, and Azure data platforms, aligning analytics with business goals and modernization efforts.

The role partners with business stakeholders and IT teams to deliver secure, scalable analytics solutions that support

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 10+ years of enterprise analytics, SAP BW/BI, reporting, or data warehousing experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on SAP BW/4HANA experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for delivery quality and operational performance across internal teams and partners.
• Define and maintain the enterprise analytics roadmap aligned with business objectives and digital initiatives.
• Oversee data integration, ETL/ELT processes, and data quality governance across SAP and non-SAP sources.
• Define data modeling standards across SAP Datasphere, BW/4HANA, and related structures.
• Guide incident management, problem resolution, and continuous improvements of the analytics platform.

Skills

Leadership

Governance

Strategy

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SAP BW/4HANA

Power BI

Azure Data Lake

Databricks

Job description

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Analytics & Reporting Lead to own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise reporting, analytics, and data warehousing solutions.

This role will provide hands‑on technical leadership across SAP and cloud‑based analytics platforms, including SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Analytics, Power BI, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, embedded SAP analytics, and integrated SAP and non‑SAP enterprise analytics solutions.

The successful candidate will partner with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, SAP functional teams, data teams, and external partners to deliver secure, scalable, governed, and business‑focused analytics solutions that enable trusted decision‑making and support future modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage delivery quality and operational performance across internal teams, implementation partners, and run-and-maintain vendors.
• Establish technical standards, development best practices, and governance processes.
• Drive collaboration across ERP, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, and business organizations.
• Build team capability across SAP BW/4HANA, Power BI, BDC/Datasphere, Azure, Databricks, and emerging analytics technologies.
• Act as the escalation point for complex architecture, delivery, support, and stakeholder alignment issues.

Enterprise Analytics Strategy & Architecture

• Define and maintain the enterprise analytics roadmap aligned with business objectives and digital transformation initiatives that include future modernization and decommissioning activities.
• Establish enterprise data architecture standards supporting operational reporting, self‑service analytics, executive dashboards, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives.
• Design and oversee SAP BW/4HANA data models, data flows, transformations, and reporting solutions.
• Lead the evolution of the analytics ecosystem including SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Power BI, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and related technologies.
• Ensure alignment between analytics platforms, enterprise data strategy, ERP modernization programs, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Drive architecture decisions balancing business agility, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership.
• Establish enterprise semantic models and governed data products.
• Define data virtualization, replication, federation, and data‑sharing strategies across SAP landscapes.
• Ensure reuse of SAP‑delivered content, CDS models, and business content packages.
• Align analytics architecture with RISE with SAP and cloud transformation initiative

Data Integration & Analytics

• Lead integration efforts involving BW/4HANA ODP, CDS Views, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Analysis for Office, BEx, and related analytics platforms.
• Define and support the future‑state analytics strategy, including alignment with RISE with SAP, SAP Business Data Cloud, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and enterprise‑approved applications.
• Oversee data extraction, transformation, loading (ETL/ELT), operational monitoring processes, and SAP technologies such as SLT and SDA.
• Ensure data quality, reconciliation, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements are met.
• Support enterprise reporting initiatives across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, and other business functions.
• Establish patterns for advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases using Databricks and SAP data products
• Drive implementation of enterprise data catalogs and business glossaries

Data Modeling & Engineering

Define enterprise data modeling standards across:

• SAP Datasphere Spaces
• BW Composite Providers
• InfoObjects
• Data Products
• Lakehouse Models
• Star Schemas
• Semantic Layers

Build curated ERP data assets supporting:

• Finance reporting
• Procurement analytics
• Inventory visibility
• Manufacturing insights
• Transportation and logistics reporting
• Commercial performance metrics

Govern master data consistency across SAP and non‑SAP data sources.

Application Support & Operational Excellence

Provide leadership for incident management, P2 or major incident resolution, problem resolution, and root cause analysis.

Guide business- and IT‑driven enhancements and projects from intake through delivery.

Work with Run & Maintain vendor to ensure successful execution and monitoring of process chains, scheduled jobs, and data loads.

Drive continuous improvement in system stability, performance, automation, and monitoring.

Partner with Basis, Security, Infrastructure, and Release Management teams to maintain a reliable platform, including OSS note management, BW/4HANA upgrades, and release coordination.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of enterprise analytics, SAP BW/BI, reporting, or data warehousing experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on SAP BW/4