Engineer - SAP Conversions (BODS)

Location: IND07

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Engineer, SAP Conversions ( BODS )

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company, providing customized solutions for hospitals, health systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, and physician offices worldwide.
 

The company provides clinically proven medical products and pharmaceuticals and cost-effective solutions that enhance supply chain efficiency from hospital to home. Cardinal Health connects patients, providers, payers, pharmacists and manufacturers for integrated care coordination and better patient management. Backed by nearly 100 years of experience, with approximately 50,000 employees in 46 countries and Fiscal 2024 revenues of $222.6 billion, Cardinal Health ranks among the top 25 on the Fortune 500.

In Bengaluru, we are excited to create an Innovation and Capability Centre that allows us to further inhouse talent and scale that talent across our business. Our ambition is to build differentiated opportunities that allows our organization to advance rapidly, to do this we will be looking to partner with Local universities to help develop the skill sets we are looking for including across Software-defined networking, machine learning and big data.

What Application Development & Maintenance contributes to Cardinal Health

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

Application Development & Maintenance performs configuration or coding to develop, enhance and sustain the organization's software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. This job family programs and configures end user applications, systems, databases, and websites to achieve the organization's internal needs and externally facing business needs.

Application Development & Maintenance partners with business leaders, investigates user needs and conducts regular assessments, maintenance, and enhancements of existing applications.

A SAP BODS (BusinessObjects Data Services) Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex data integration and migration solutions, working on various data conversions for an SAP implementation across pharmaceutical, medical, and nuclear segments. The position involves leading projects, optimizing ETL processes, ensuring data quality, and mentoring junior developers. 

The position will also be responsible for: 

SAP Data Conversion Expertise: Proven experience in executing data conversions for SAP implementations, including ECC and S/4HANA environments.  

ETL Design & Development: Design, develop, and implement complex ETL processes using SAP BODS to migrate and integrate data from diverse sources into SAP S/4HANA, data warehouses, and cloud platforms.  

Data Migration Leadership: Lead end-to-end data migration projects for SAP implementations and upgrades, establishing frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.  

Data Quality & Profiling: Perform data profiling, cleansing, and validation using SAP Information Steward and other tools to ensure high data accuracy and integrity.  

Performance Optimization: Optimize and tune SAP BODS jobs and dataflows for enhanced performance, scalability, and reliability.  

Real-Time Data Integration: Develop real-time data replication solutions using SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT) and other tools.  

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with data architects, SAP functional consultants, and business analysts to align technical solutions with business needs.  

Requirements Analysis & Documentation: Gather and analyze data requirements, translating them into technical specifications, data mapping documents, and transformation logic.  

Strategic Planning & Execution: Define and execute processes to meet project goals, coordinating with stakeholders and leadership teams.  

Legacy Data Conversion: Responsible for converting legacy data from multiple source systems into SAP environments.  

Stakeholder Engagement: Influence and engage key stakeholders and business partners to drive data initiatives and ensure alignment.  

Technical Proficiencies:  

ETL & Data Tools: SAP BODS (Data Services), SAP Information Steward, Informatica (bonus), Collibra, DataBricks, BigQuery 

SAP Ecosystem: SAP ECC, S/4HANA, BW, LTMC 

Database Technologies: SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL 

Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP VM instance deployment and support (preferred) 

Methodologies: Agile & Waterfall 

Team Leadership: Mentor and lead technical teams, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. 

Qualifications 

Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience 

6+ years of experience with SAP implementations and ABAP knowledge in respective business processes like Master data, OTC, PRI, SCE, RTR and PTP.  

3-5 years of experience with SAP Data Services and Data conversions. Experience in ALE/IDOC, LSMW, RDM/BPDM 

Demonstrates a knowledge of Master Data Management domain 

Ability to define work processes and lead team members in successful implementation and ongoing execution preferred 

Ability to develop individuals and teams preferred 

Excellent oral and written communication skills preferred 

Excellent organizational skills preferred 

What Software Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health 

Software Engineering is responsible for designing, developing, implementing and supporting applications, systems, and IT products required to achieve the company's business objectives. 

• Demonstrates knowledge of software development techniques and fluency in software languages and application programming interfaces. 

• Demonstrates general understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies. 

• Plans and executes system implementations that ensure success and minimize risk of system outages or other negative production impacts. 

• Demonstrates conceptual knowledge of architecture standards and database and operating systems. 

• Demonstrates problem solving ability that allows for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages. 

• Analyzes production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis, and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance. 

• Demonstrates knowledge of software development, life cycle, modeling of business processes, application design patterns, business/functional documents. Estimates high-level business requirements and provides option analysis. 

What is expected of you and others at this level 

• Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, frontline supervisors and/or business support staff 

• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals 

• Ensure employees operate within guidelines 

• Decisions have a short-term impact on work processes, outcomes, and customers 

• Interacts with colleagues, peer customers and suppliers at various management levels may interact with senior management 

• Interactions normally involve resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects 

• Gains consensus from various parties involved 

• Experience in working with AGILE processes.
• Experience in requirement gathering, gap & impact analysis along with experience developing an implementation strategy for process improvements.
• Experience with a full life cycle implementation; understanding of industry best practices preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills must convey thoughts and ideas simply and concisely.
• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• Works on medium to complex projects of large scope
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Job Location: Bengaluru, India

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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