SAP Principal Data & Analytics Consultant
Application Deadline: 18 June 2025
Department: SAP Analytics
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Bristol, UK
Reporting To: Jan Van Ansem
Compensation: £85,000 - £120,000 / year
Description We are looking for an experienced and technically proficient SAP Principal Data & Analytics Consultant to drive the design and delivery of cutting-edge data and analytics solutions for our clients leveraging the power of SAP and modern (SAP and non-SAP) cloud data platforms.
You will combine your deep technical expertise in SAP data with your strong client advisory skills to understand their business challenges and translate them into innovative, data-driven solutions. You will be a key contributor to the growth and development of our SAP analytics practice, providing leadership and guidance to project teams.
What you'll be doing
- Stakeholder and project management
You'll be expected to work closely with our clients to educate them on their SAP data and analytics strategy, including vendor selection of market-leading products. You'll also manage the scope, costing and gathering of business requirements.
- Relationship building & pre-sale activities
You'll contribute to pre-sales activities and client bids all whilst proactively building strong relationships within the SAP space.
- Design, architecture and integration
You'll be working on SAP datacentric data and analytics solutions, ensuring seamless integration with cloud platforms like Snowflake and Databricks. You'll also be designing efficient data models and ETL processes.
- Working with SAP data extractors
This will include BW extractors and CDS views and table extractors to integrate data into target platforms.
- Internal team development & progression
You'll champion a supportive and continuous learning environment within the team and business. Encouraging the team to share insights, SAP innovations and general advancements of cloud data technologies - as well as sharing your own.
What You'll Need To Succeed
- Extensive experience in SAP data and analytics, with a strong understanding of the full lifecycle of data integration activities (data architecture, data modelling, general BI and analytics best practices.
- Deep expertise in one or more SAP tools, specifically SAP BW/4HANA and/or SAP Datasphere (SAP Business Data Cloud)
- A good understanding of SAP as a source system with proven experience of delivering analytics solutions for at least one core area such as finance, logistics or sales.
- Strong expertise in data modelling techniques and tooling (conceptual, logical, and technical modelling)
- Understanding of connectivity from on-premise to cloud-hosted applications and common patterns for getting SAP data to the cloud.
- Hands-on project experience including business requirements analysis, scoping, design, and implementation of analytics platforms
- Ability to translate technical information to non-technical individuals and present to a range of audiences
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience leading or managing work streams within SAP data and analytics projects
- A proactive and dynamic approach to tackling new challenges
- A strong desire to learn and share knowledge
Ideally, you'll also have
- Certification for at least one non-SAP data platform, ideally Snowflake or Databricks
- Knowledge of ETL tools like SAP Data Services, Matillion, Fivetran or SNP Glue
- Hands-on experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI (including data modelling and extraction)
- Hands-on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud
- Functional understanding of core modules within SAP S/4HANA
- Industry specific knowledge and experience, preferably in Finance or FMCG
- Experience working to an agile methodology