Job Description:

An opportunity for a Senior Technical Leader - SAP BI / BW has arisen within Airbus Helicopters (Albacete, Spain)

WHY JOIN US?

📍 LIFE IN ALBACETE: QUALITY & CONVENIENCE - Forget long commutes. Albacete offers you the great advantage of a “15-minute city": safe, accessible, comfortable and perfectly connected. Enjoy a premium standard of living at a competitive cost, ensuring you have the perfect balance between your career and your personal life.

🚁 AIRBUS HELICOPTERS: GROW WITH US - We offer more than a job; we offer a community. Immerse yourself in a young, collaborative environment that feels like family. As a strategic Center of Excellence, we are a global leader in helicopter production, offering you endless potential to grow alongside our major projects.

✨THE PROJECT: SHAPING THE FUTURE - Welcome to the Digital Campus, a pioneering ecosystem dedicated to industrial digitalization and innovation. This is more than just a workplace; it is a technological hub where we define the future of flight. 

Bring your ideas to a dynamic, modern ecosystem and help us build the next generation of aerospace solutions.

You will join the Data & Analytics team. In this role, you will act as a Technical Leader within an Agile Release Train. You will be responsible for building high-performance data products and applications that bridge our industrial core (SAP BW) with our advanced big data ecosystem (Palantir Foundry). You will play a critical role in the digital continuity of the world’s leading helicopter manufacturer.

Your future missions:

• SAP BI Platform Expertise: Serve as the primary technical expert for the Airbus SAP BI platform within the organization, possessing deep knowledge of its architecture, functionalities and data models.

• Technical Leadership & Guidance: Provide technical leadership and guidance to data engineers and other technical teams on the effective utilization of SAP BI for data ingestion, processing, storage, analysis, and visualization.

• SAP BI Solution Design & Architecture: Design and architect robust, scalable, and performant data and analytics solutions leveraging the SAP BI platforms, ensuring alignment with overall IT architecture and data strategy.

• Integration & Interoperability: Lead the technical integration of SAP BI with other enterprise systems and data sources, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.

• Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting: Monitor and optimize the performance of SAP BI environments, troubleshoot technical issues, and implement solutions to ensure platform stability and reliability.

• Best Practices & Standards: Define and enforce best practices, coding standards, and guidelines for developing and deploying solutions on the SAP BI platforms.

• Knowledge Sharing & Mentoring: Share knowledge and expertise on SAP BI with the wider technical community within Airbus Helicopters, mentoring junior team members and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

• Collaboration with Airbus SAP BI Teams: Act as the primary technical point of contact with the central Airbus SAP BI teams, collaborating on platform updates, new features, and issue resolution.

• Security & Compliance: Ensure that all SAP BI-based solutions adhere to relevant security policies, data governance regulations, and compliance standards.

• Innovation & Adoption: Stay abreast of new features and capabilities within the SAP BI platform and drive their adoption within Airbus Helicopters to enhance our data and analytics capabilities.

• Technical Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation related to SAP BI architecture, configurations, and best practices.

Your profile:

• Education: Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

• Extensive SAP BI Experience: Proven and deep hands-on experience (typically 5+ years) working extensively with the SAP BI platforms in a complex enterprise environment.

• Strong Technical Background: Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, LSA++ architectures, computing platforms and data integration tools.

• Programming & Scripting Skills: Proficiency in one or more programming languages relevant to data processing and analysis (e.g., ABAP, SQL).

• Performance Tuning & Optimization: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve performance issues in complex data processing pipelines and platform environments.

• Problem-Solving Skills: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong ability to troubleshoot technical challenges.

• Collaboration & Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.  

• Agile Experience: Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

• Industry Knowledge (Preferred): Understanding of the aviation or aerospace industry and its data challenges is a plus.

• Language Skills: Fluency in English is essential. Knowledge of French is advantageous.

Skills:

• Deep Expertise in Airbus SAP BI Platform (Architecture, Functionalities, Data Models), a deep knowledge of SAP BW is particularly important 

• Data Engineering Principles and Practices

• Data Integration and ETL/ELT Processes

• Programming/Scripting (ABAP, HANA views, SQL)

• Performance Tuning and Optimization

• Technical Troubleshooting and Problem Solving

• Collaboration and Communication

• Technical Documentation

WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE?

At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:

• Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year (Apróx. 35 days per year in total).

• Attractive salary.

• Hybrid model of working: we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

• Collective transport service subject to working calendar/home location.

• Benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan, or study grants.

• On-site facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.

• Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.

• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.

• Option to access special rates in products & benefits.

Take your career to a new level and apply online now! 🚁

Since this position is managed transnationally, please submit your documents (CV and/or cover letter) in English.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Helicopters España, SA

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Digital <JF-IM-DI>

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.