Senior Software Engineer - SAP HANA, BODS

Salary: $140 – $150 per hour

Senior Software Engineer - SAP BusinessObject Data Services (BODS)

To apply for this role, the candidate must be an Australian Citizens and have a minimum of Baseline Security Clearance.

Job details

1. Software Engineers have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced by their team.
   

2. EL1 Software Engineers, often referred to as Development Experts, have experience overseeing software development projects, writing optimised code, and provide technical leadership to a team of software engineers.
   

3. They are responsible for the quality and functionality of the software produced – in this case utilising SAP BODS which is an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) platform that integrates, cleanses, and loads data from multiple sources into target systems like SAP HANA, SAP BW, or non-SAP data warehouses. It combines data integration, data quality, data profiling, and data processing in a single solution.
   

4. An EL1 SAP BODS Software Engineer engages in the design and development of high-quality solutions in support of business and technical requirements. They lead software development projects and provide technical leadership to their teams - managing the planning, development and construction activities. EL1 SAP BODS Software Engineers evaluate and resolve complex issues within Agile development and production environments.
   

Key duties and responsibilities

May include some or all the following:

1. lead and create software and technical designs for the realisation of highly complex development solutions
   

2. develop strategy to ensure high quality code and long-term maintenance of a product's code base
   

3. provide specialist technical advice on software development and maintenance
   

4. lead the release and ensure go-live production support and maintenance for the team’s developments
   

5. lead analysis, design, software development, prototyping, unit testing and maintenance activities
   

6. review and undertake high-level analysis of technical requirements to support project evaluation with proposed solutions
   

7. investigate and resolve highly complex ICT issues
   

Technical skills

A. Experience using SAP Business Objects Data Services (BODS) to implement Batch data ingestion pipelines
B. Experience using the following in SAP BODS:
- Script transforms, Query transforms, Validation transforms, Database extraction functions, Database load
functions, Address transforms, Name transforms, and Real time services
C. Highly desirable - experience in using any of the following databases:
- SAP HANA
- PostgreSQL
- IBM DB2
- Teradata

Requirements

Criteria

Candidate must provide a one-page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters including spaces.

Essential criteria

• 1. Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)
  

  Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Assesses and documents the impacts, threats and opportunities to the organisation. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
  

• 2. Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA)
  

  Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.
  

• 3. Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA)
  

  Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.
  

• 4. Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA)
  

  Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews. Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.
  

• 5. Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)
  

  Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment.
  

• 6. Software design: Level 4 (SFIA)
  

  Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.
  

• 7. Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA)
  

  Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations. Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge. Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs.
  

• 8. Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA)
  

  Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
  

• 9. Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA)
  

  Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.
  

• 10. Testing: Level 4 (SFIA)
  

  Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing. Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage. Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.
  

Desirable criteria

• 1. Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA)
  

  Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.