MSD Associate Director Technical Lead - SAP BPC & BW 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

46071137

Job Description

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

As an Associate Director, Technical Lead – SAP BPC & BW, you will be responsible for leading the technical delivery of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solutions, with a primary focus on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP BW. You will guide and mentor a team of developers while also remaining hands-on—actively designing and developing solutions, resolving complex technical issues, and ensuring high standards of delivery. You will work closely with finance stakeholders and IT teams to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals. While your core focus will be BPC and BW, you will also provide technical oversight and support for related workstreams in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SAP Datasphere.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of SAP BPC and SAP BW solutions across planning and reporting projects.
• Provide hands-on development support in areas such as BPC logic scripting, BADI implementations, BW data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Serve as the go-to expert for technical design decisions, coaching team members on BPC and BW best practices.
• Review existing implementations and ensure consistent coding standards, documentation, and change control across projects.
• Translate business planning and reporting requirements into scalable technical designs, working in close collaboration with finance users.
• Support related activities in SAC Planning and SAP Datasphere as part of the broader planning landscape, providing guidance and technical input where required.
• Support planning system modernization, including BPC upgrades as well as a future transition to SAC & Datasphere.
• Drive knowledge sharing and mentoring within the development team to build internal capabilities.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience, including 7+ years of technical experience with SAP BPC, with a deep understanding of planning logic, script development, and custom enhancements.
• Strong background in SAP BW (BW 7.x or BW/4HANA), including data modeling, data flows, query design, and integration with planning tools.
• Hands-on experience in ABAP for BPC/BW enhancements and performance optimization.
• Proven experience leading development teams or workstreams in SAP planning projects.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
• Experience in Agile project delivery environments.
• Experience with SAC & Datasphere.
• Knowledge of SAP PaPM.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience supporting migration efforts from BPC to SAC or BW to Datasphere.
• Familiarity with CDS Views, and integrated reporting solutions.

What we look for

Current Contingent Workers apply

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

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