SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Developer
Thames Water Utilities Limited
Job at a glance
+ Work closely with business stakeholders to design engaging SAC stories that bring the product owner's vision to life. + Translate business requirements into effective, user-focused SAC reporting solutions. + Work collaboratively with SAC developers, Power BI developers, Data Engineering teams, and other technical colleagues to deliver high-quality reporting products. + Contribute to the continuous improvement of SAC reporting capabilities, templates, and dashboards.
Maintain Excellence + Oversee and maintain a portfolio of SAC artefacts, including models and stories, ensuring they remain accurate, relevant, and fit for purpose. + Ensure SAC reporting solutions are developed and maintained to a high standard, with appropriate data structures, calculations, and visualisations. + Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing SAC solutions, reporting processes, and user experience.
+ Support the ongoing development and optimisation of SAC reporting capabilities across the organisation. Resolve & Support + Swiftly address incidents and provide technical support to users experiencing issues with productionised SAC stories. + Investigate and troubleshoot issues across SAC models, stories, data sources, calculations, and reporting processes. + Work closely with Data Engineering and other technical teams to resolve data and integration issues.
+ Provide expert guidance and support to end users and stakeholders. Meet & Exceed + Ensure that all requirements are clearly understood and delivered according to the product backlog. + Work within continuous delivery and Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality reporting solutions. + Contribute to testing, quality assurance, and successful implementation of SAC developments. + Ensure solutions meet business needs while maintaining appropriate technical and reporting standards.
Communicate Effectively + Clearly articulate delivery expectations and maintain open lines of communication with stakeholders at all levels. + Work with stakeholders across the business to define requirements, demonstrate solutions, and gather feedback. + Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and compelling presentations and demonstrations. + Develop training documentation and lead training sessions with end users of SAC reports.
Advocate for SAC + Promote the benefits and capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud across the organisation. + Proactively identify opportunities to showcase SAC and demonstrate how it can support business decision-making. + Lead demonstrations of SAC capabilities to stakeholders at all levels, including C-suite. + Drive maximum value from SAC by encouraging effective adoption and best practice across the organisation.
Key relationships and interactions + Working in the Data Team, within the BI division and reporting to the Head of Business Intelligence. + Working as part of a team of SAC and Power BI developers. + Daily interaction with the Data Engineering team, who provide the underlying data. + Working with stakeholders at all levels across the business to define requirements and build and test solutions. + Proactively creating opportunities to showcase the capabilities of SAC through demonstrations to all levels of the business, up to and including C-suite.
+ Preparing training documents and leading training sessions with end users of the reports. + Working closely with digital workplace peers and other IT teams, including product management, project delivery, applications, infrastructure, security operations, enterprise/network operations, and IT operations management. + Continuous Delivery: Experience working in continuous delivery environments and cross-functional teams using Agile methodology.
+ Presentation Skills: Proven experience presenting to senior stakeholders, with the ability to deliver clear, concise, and compelling presentations. + Business Acumen: A knack for quickly understanding business needs, future trends, opportunities, and constraints across various domains.,