Independent Contractor - SAP Analytics Job

Experience

Job Description

• Develop detailed plans and accurate estimates for completion of build, system testing and implementation phases of project.
• Actively lead projects and contribute to unit-level and organizational initiatives with an objective of providing high quality value adding solutions to customers.
• Lead the team in understanding AS-IS situation and design and validate the To-Be design.
• Responsible for reviewing the unit test plans and the quality assurance plans to ensure all requirements have been met.
• Perform integration testing work as necessary to ensure that new functionality or enhancements do not adversely affect existing functionality.
• Ensure knowledge transfer to functional analysts as necessary to increase their understanding and utilization of the SAP systems and applications.
• Act as the technical expert, ensuring quick turnaround in identifying application issues and providing timely solutions.
• Follow all design work and integration testing protocols, change control procedures, uses standards, procedures, and practices in performing required work.
• Provide direct reports ongoing development, feedback, coaching, and mentoring.
• Comply with all coding standards and performance measures, as per customer/organizations guidelines.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Domain/ Industry Knowledge:

• Specialized knowledge of customers' business processes and relevant technology platform or product.
• Apply industry standards/ practices and create complex business models in line with customer requirements independently.
• Analyze current-state and define to-be processes in collaboration with SME and present recommendations with tangible benefits.
• Drive process improvement initiatives, ROI analysis through innovation.

Requirement Gathering and Analysis:

• Specialized knowledge of requirement management processes and requirement analysis processes, tools & methodologies.
• Extract requirements for complex scenarios and prototype independently.
• Identify modules impacted, features/functionalities impacted and arrive at high level estimates.
• Develop traceability matrix and identify transition requirements.

Platform/ Technology Knowledge:

• Implement code or configure/customize products, drive adoption of industry standards and practices, and contribute to development of reusable assets and innovative solutions.
• Conduct technical sessions and knowledge sharing sessions, and work on complex modules independently.
• Analyze various frameworks/tools and present recommendations, contribute to development of training and certification material, and demonstrate thought leadership through whitepapers and webinars.

Architecture tools and frameworks:

• Specialized knowledge of architecture tools & frameworks.
• Implement tools & framework in a complex scenario
• Conduct tools & framewwork customization & tailoring workshop.

Architecture concepts and principles:

• Specialized knowledge of architectural elements, SDLC, methodologies & customer business/domain.
• Establish Architectural principles/ patterns and use advanced tools to capture and analyse system/ technical issues.

Analytics Solution Design:

• In Depth knowledge of statistical & machine learning techniques.
• Able to design analytical modelling approach for moderate-scale projects or for components of large-scale.
• Understand business requirements & constraints including potential trade-offs between speed & accuracy, maintains trends.

Tools & Platform Knowledge:

• Familiarity with the wide range of data science/analytics commercial and open source software tools, their constraints, advantages, disadvantages, areas of application and mainstream packages relevant to technical stages of data science/analytics projects.
• Intermediate to advanced skills in programming languages used for data science/analytics and ability to apply these for data acquisition, pre-processing, modelling and model deployment. Ability to interpret and modify existing scripts and conduct quality checks.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.

Agility:

• Works with a diverse set of situations, people and groups and adapts and motivates self and team to thrive in changing environment.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Customer Focus:

• Engages in executive customer discovery to predict future needs of customers and drives customer relationships with a long-term focus and takes actions to enhance customer loyalty.

Communication:

• Communicates and presents complex ideas, information, and data to multiple, broad, and demanding stakeholders internal and/or external to the Organization.
• Helps others communicate better with their audience. Demonstrates honest, direct, and transparent communication and facilitates conversations within the team and its close collaborators.

Drives Results:

• Proactively seeks challenging and differentiated opportunities and drives and motivates team members to take on more responsibility.

Resolves Conflict:

• Balances the business interests of all stakeholders and manages any conflicts offering mutually beneficial options.

Certifications