SAP SAC PLANNING ARCHITECT

Cygnus Professionals Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cygnus Professionals Inc. is seeking a SAP SAC Planning Architect with 15+ years of experience to lead design of reporting and visualisation in SAP Analytics Cloud.

The role focuses on translating business requirements into a cohesive reporting framework and setting standards for report developers. The incumbent will lead requirement gathering, define the SAC design standards, design models and live connections to SAP Datasphere, and guide user acceptance testing and adoption while coordinating

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in SAP environments.
• Expert knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud stories, analytic applications, models and live data connections.
• Excellent client-facing and workshop facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirement gathering and define the report catalogue, KPIs and user personas with business stakeholders.
• Define SAC design standards: story templates, themes, navigation, filters and visual best practice.
• Design SAC models and live connections to SAP Datasphere, and advise on semantic requirements for Datasphere models.
• Review report designs and builds from developers, and perform quality checks and performance tuning.
• Guide user acceptance testing, training material and business adoption.
• Collaborate with the security lead on roles, teams and data access controls in SAC.

Skills

SAP Analytics Cloud

Dashboard design

Data storytelling

Requirements gathering

Client-facing

Workshop facilitation

Security roles

Tools

SAP Datasphere

Tableau

Job description

SAP SAC PLANNING ARCHITECT with Minimum 15+ Years experience

LOCATION: REMOTE

The SAC Reporting SME leads the design of reporting and visualisation in SAP Analytics Cloud.

The role translates business requirements into a consistent reporting framework, sets standards for the report developers and acts as the escalation point for design, performance and user-experience questions.

• Lead requirement gathering and define the report catalogue, KPIs and user personas with business stakeholders.
• Define SAC design standards: story templates, themes, navigation, filters and visual best practice.
• Design SAC models and live connections to SAP Datasphere, and advise on semantic requirements for Datasphere models.
• Review report designs and builds from developers, and perform quality checks and performance tuning.
• Guide user acceptance testing, training material and business adoption.
• Collaborate with the security lead on roles, teams and data access controls in SAC.

15+ years Experience in SAP Expert knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud stories, analytic applications, models and live data connections.

• Strong understanding of dashboard design and data storytelling.
• Knowledge of Datasphere consumption layers and SAC calculations, variables and scripting.
• Familiarity with other BI tools such as Tableau for comparison and migration.
• Excellent client-facing and workshop facilitation skills.