SAP Consultant

WNS Global Services Inc. (NYSE: WNS) is a global Business Process Management (BPM) leader. WNS offers business value to 400+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals, including Banking and Financial Services, Consulting and Professional Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Telecommunications, Travel and Utilities. Globally, the group’s over 41,000+ Professionals serve across 60 delivery centers in 16 countries worldwide, including China, Costa Rica, India, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, UK and US.

WNS South Africa has been in operation since 2003 and built a reputation as the industry leader for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in South Africa, with a growing footprint into Africa. We are a strategic partner for delivering a full range of basic to complex processes from our eight delivery centers across South Africa, employing 4000+ people.

Why join us?

We promise our employees to experience role clarity, coaching and mentoring, professional development and structured career path through our 5 people promises and keeping employee experience at the core. Experience the culture of outperformance, engagement, celebration and also contribute to society through our WNS Cares Foundation, where you have the opportunity to support meaningful initiatives and make an impact in the community.

The SAP BW Consultant is ultimately accountable for preparing and manipulating data for further analysis, including ETL and will support testing across the development lifecycle. The role is responsible for extracting and transforming data from source systems, understanding how to integrate or join different sources to create a dataset that can be used for reporting, analysis and analytics. Overall the person will strive for efficiency by aligning data systems with business goals. Role will also be involved in testing activities with the assistance from a Business Analyst and Data Architect/Modeler.

• Prepares, transforms, models data and resolves conflicting sources of data and  anomalies
• Supports the delivery of BI and analytical products to business users via participating in Agile development pod activities including Agile ceremonies
• Implement methods to improve data reliability and quality
• Combines raw information from different sources to create consistent and machine-readable formats
• Develop and test architectures that enable data extraction and transformation for predictive or prescriptive modelling
• Responsible for technical testing services across the entire delivery lifecycle including: system integration testing, performance engineering and unit testing. Cooperate with the Business Analyst, Data Architect and Data Visualisation Developer throughout these testing activities.
• Work with the Group IT team to adhere to architecture guidelines and provide valuable input to develop them

•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or similar field; a Master’s is a plus

•    Extensive experience of designing, developing and testing ETL processes

•    Experience of batch and real-time processing

•    Experience in extracting value and features from large scale data and toolsets

•    Modern code development practices

•    Extensive experience working with SAP ERP and BW/4HANA (Frontend and Backend)

•    Experience of relational and NoSQL data modelling approaches

•    Experience of at least one packaged ETL tool

•    Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques

•    Extensive hands-on experience with BW Data modelling and  SQL database design

•    Data engineering certification (e.g. MS Azure Data Engineer or SAP Data Architects) is a plus

•    Working proficiency in English and any other European languages are a plus