Sr. Administrator, SAP Business Objects

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Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role:

The successful candidate will be focused on supporting and maintaining our Tier 1 Business Objects global platform. The candidate will assist in deploying and supporting integration and onboarding of business applications into a shared multi-tenant global Business Objects environment. Awareness of Information Security standards and policies are preferred to ensure all deployed objects and configuration settings are highly secure and available. The candidate will work directly with systems and software engineers and architects to implement solution designs in a large complex worldwide enterprise.

Your Role Accountabilities:

• Maintaining BO architecture documentation, administration, upgrade, and patching support.

• Enforcing consistent policies for design and development of system connectivity and architecture, universes, and reports for new and existing tenant applications integrating into the shared global BO environment.

• Promotion of reports/universes/users along with security settings from lower to higher-level environments following Change Management processes.

• Implement security by creating user groups, granting access to BO based applications to users and adding security restrictions (application level, folder level, and object level) based on user profile and user groups.

• Create access levels (Developer, Reporter, Viewer, etc.) based on project and business needs.

• Tracking, troubleshooting, analysis, and resolution of End User incidents and tickets;

resolves customer issues within the service level agreements.

• Participates in and contributes to the implementation of best industry practices.

• Build custom WEBI and Crystal reports on demand basis.

Qualifications & Experiences:

• Three (3) or more years in BO Administration of Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform to include the latest 4.3 software version.

• Two (2) or more years total experience supporting enterprise-class applications in a significant engineering or administrative role.

• Two (2) or more years of experience in designing & building WEBI and Crystal reports in a Business Objects environment.

• Experience with integrating BO with multiple SAP-based platforms (ECC; BW; CRM; S/4 HANA; BW/4 HANA; SCM; GRC; Fiori and SAP Portal; etc)

• Experience with Oracle, DB2 and other enterprise-level databases.

• Experience in BO Universe and report design.

• Experience with application integrations utilizing the BO SDK.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a track record of taking solution ownership.

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills both written and verbal to include translating complex technical issues clearly and precisely to both technical and non-technical parties.

• The ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

• Strong analytical and technical communication skills.

• Understanding SAP applications and their functionalities is an added advantage.

• Must be able to communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels of personnel—in person, via email, and over conference calls and/or telephone.

• Must be able to pay close attention to complex detail and understand written and oral instructions.

• Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively.

• Must be able to work well under time constraints.

• Willingness to learn new technologies at an accelerated pace.

• Must be able to handle multiple tasks with changing priorities, communicating changes in scope and schedule to all parties concerned.

• Must be service-oriented.

• Must be able to work independently with a high degree of self-motivation, commitment, and integrity.

• Must be able to work flexible hours, including possible overtime, when necessary.

• Must be able to maintain confidentiality. Not Required but preferred experience:

• Understanding of BW data loads using process chains

• Working knowledge of BW backend building blocks, including info-providers, transformation, and data transfer process

• Support experience with Bex queries and AO workbooks Knowledge of information broadcasting and reports bursting is a plus.

• First-level support for BI reporting (Bex/AO workbooks) experience, such as the concept of hierarchy, filter, and slice and dice of the reports to derive the desired result for business need.

• Experience with BO-AWS Cloud-based connectivity and integration points

• Experience with Linux or other UNIX variants such as IBM AIX

• Corporate Information Security certification

• SAP BO Administrator and/other certifications

• Knowledge of Entertainment Industry and business applications is an added advantage.

• Experience with AWS

• Oral/Written fluency in Other Non-English languages

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at   along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

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