ERP Analytics & Reporting Lead

Location: Indianapolis

** Position Summary
** We are seeking an experienced
** Enterprise Analytics & Reporting Lead
** to own the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise reporting, analytics, and data warehousing solutions.

This role will provide hands-on technical leadership across SAP and cloud-based analytics platforms, including SAP BW/4

HANA, SAP S/4

HANA Analytics, Power BI, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, embedded SAP analytics, and integrated SAP and non-SAP enterprise analytics solutions.

The successful candidate will partner with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, SAP functional teams, data teams, and external partners to deliver secure, scalable, governed, and business-focused analytics solutions that enable trusted decision-making and support future modernization.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Leadership & Team Management
*** Manage delivery quality and operational performance across internal teams, implementation partners, and run-and-maintain vendors.
* Establish technical standards, development best practices, and governance processes.
* Drive collaboration across ERP, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, and business organizations.
* Build team capability across SAP BW/4

HANA, Power BI, BDC/Datasphere, Azure, Databricks, and emerging analytics technologies.
* Act as the escalation point for complex architecture, delivery, support, and stakeholder alignment issues.
** Enterprise Analytics Strategy & Architecture
*** Define and maintain the enterprise analytics roadmap aligned with business objectives and digital transformation initiatives that include future modernization and decommissioning activities.
* Establish enterprise data architecture standards supporting operational reporting, self-service analytics, executive dashboards, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives.
* Design and oversee SAP BW/4

HANA data models, data flows, transformations, and reporting solutions.
* Lead the evolution of the analytics ecosystem including SAP BW/4

HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, Power BI, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and related technologies.
* Ensure alignment between analytics platforms, enterprise data strategy, ERP modernization programs, and cloud transformation initiatives.
* Drive architecture decisions balancing business agility, performance, scalability, security, and total cost of ownership.
· Establish enterprise semantic models and governed data products.
· Define data virtualization, replication, federation, and data-sharing strategies across SAP landscapes.
· Ensure reuse of SAP-delivered content, CDS models, and business content packages.
· Align analytics architecture with RISE with SAP and cloud transformation initiative
** Data Integration & Analytics
*** Lead integration efforts involving BW/4

HANA ODP, CDS Views, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Analysis for Office, BEx, and related analytics platforms.
* Define and support the future-state analytics strategy, including alignment with RISE with SAP, SAP Business Data Cloud, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and enterprise-approved applications.
* Oversee data extraction, transformation, loading (ETL/ELT), operational monitoring processes, and SAP technologies such as SLT and SDA.
* Ensure data quality, reconciliation, governance, and regulatory compliance requirements are met.
* Support enterprise reporting initiatives across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Commercial, and other business functions.
* Establish patterns for advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases using Databricks and SAP data products
* Drive implementation of enterprise data catalogs and business glossaries
** Data Modeling & Engineering
*** Define enterprise data modeling standards across:* + SAP Datasphere Spaces* + BW Composite Providers* + Info Objects* + Data Products* + Lakehouse Models* + Star Schemas* + Semantic Layers
* Build curated ERP data assets supporting:* + Finance reporting* + Procurement analytics* + Inventory visibility* + Manufacturing insights* + Transportation and logistics reporting* + Commercial performance metrics
* Govern master data consistency across SAP and non-SAP data sources.
** Application Support & Operational Excellence
*** Provide leadership for incident management, P2 or major incident resolution, problem resolution, and root cause analysis.
* Guide business- and IT-driven enhancements and projects from intake through delivery.
* Work with Run & Maintain vendor to ensure successful…