Business Objects Application Support Administrator

Maintain Business Objects environments ensuring the Business Objects design is correctly configured, and functions as required.  Perform Business Objects system maintenance and upgrades.  Coordinates with SAP support to address Business Objects issues.  Participate in design reviews and collaborates on design solutions.  Perform Business Objects Production implementations. Proficiency in Business Objects, Web Intelligence, Dashboards, Objects Universes, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence. Develop Business Objects reports and dashboard solutions for a wide variety of business intelligence projects and write functional and technical specs. Define, design, and maintain the BO universe, BI dashboards, and reports. Understand and implement solution in support of physical data models necessary to support business intelligence reporting initiatives. Design, develop, test, and support Oracle/SQL stored procedures, functions. Experience working on a controlled life cycle BO environment. Communicate directly with other BI team members to confirm requirements and clarify business rules. Understanding of BO clustering and DR strategy. Develop, Support, and improve existing BO systems including both Universe and Reports. Experience working in a 24x7 environment. Migration of BO components in various environments. Responsible for documenting modifications of pre-existing development, new development for peer reference and knowledge transfer. Develops proto-types and presents to stakeholders as solution options for purposes of introducing new technologies. Follow Configuration Management processes for all migrations. Create/Update System Technical Requirements documentation. Conduct knowledge transfer to client staff.