SAP Business Objects & Data Services Platform Administrator​/Engineer

Job description

As a Platform Administrator, you will apply deep technical expertise to support mission‑critical operations, drive platform stability and performance, and uphold rigorous operational and security standards in a federal environment. The ideal candidate brings strong hands‑on experience with both SAP Business Objects and SAP Data Services, including enterprise reporting and ETL platforms, and has a proven track record supporting complex, high‑availability environments.

• Manage, maintain, and administer SAP Business Objects and SAP Data Services platforms, including user/group administration, repository management, job/server monitoring, and day‑to‑day operational support.
• Implement and enforce platform‑level security for Business Objects and Data Services, including users, groups, roles, content, folders, applications, repositories, and access controls in alignment with federal security policies, RMF, and ATO requirements.
• Install, configure, patch, and upgrade SAP Business Objects BI Platform and SAP Data Services, including CMS, APS services, Web Intelligence, CMC, Promotion Management Tool (LCM), DS repositories, job servers, and connectivity components.
• Configure and maintain scheduling, publication, and ETL job execution (batch and real‑time), ensuring reliability, performance, and SLA compliance across reporting and data integration workloads.
• Perform platform performance tuning and capacity management, including memory allocation, job concurrency, server sizing, repository optimization, APS/service‑level tuning, and ETL performance tuning.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery strategies, including clustering, failover, and platform resiliency across environments.
• Monitor platform health and availability, troubleshoot system issues, and perform root‑cause analysis across Business Objects and Data Services environments (DEV, TEST, IV&V, PROD), including CMS, APS services (e.g., DSLBridge), ETL job failures, and database connectivity issues.
• Manage content lifecycle and migrations using Promotion Management Tool and Jenkins‑based automation, ensuring consistency and traceability across environments.
• Administer SAP Data Services ETL infrastructure, including repository configuration, job servers, data stores, scheduling, operational monitoring of batch and real‑time jobs, and job performance optimization and error handling.
• Work with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL Server) to support data connectivity, query performance tuning, and issue resolution.
• Support change management, configuration control, and release activities in accordance with federal ITIL, RMF, and audit requirements.
• Maintain platform documentation, standard operating procedures, and operational runbooks to support continuity and compliance.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, database, security, and application teams to ensure platform stability, security hardening, and compliance.
• Provide operational guidance, training, and mentoring to administrators and support teams on Business Objects and Data Services platform best practices.
• Communicate clearly with technical teams and stakeholders through concise written documentation and effective verbal updates.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of experience.
• At least 5 years of SAP Business Objects 4.x software and components.
• Must have experience in SAP BO user and group management and overall platform security.
• Hands‑on experience with SAP Data Services, including repositories, job servers, and ETL job execution (batch and real‑time).
• Experience with Business Objects upgrades, patching, and migrations (4.x).
• Experience working with relational databases such as Oracle, SAP HANA, or SQL Server, including data connectivity and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting federal IT programs, including working within structured governance, documentation, and compliance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of business and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems.
• Experience eliciting and documenting functional, technical, and performance…