Updated: July 23, 2024 - The Business Objects Developer specializes in configuring, deploying, and maintaining SAP Business Objects applications to support complex business intelligence needs. This role encompasses designing, implementing, and managing upgrades for Business Objects enterprise products, ensuring robust authentication and security policies. The developer also develops and maintains advanced reports and dashboards using Business Objects and Tableau focused on delivering on aggressive timelines while effectively managing client specifications and requests.


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1. Business Objects Developer, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Teaneck, NJ
Job Summary:
- Design new reports, interactive Business Intelligence artifacts, or data visualizations.
- Develop data analysis work products, and refine data analysis work products developed.
- Migrate data analysis work products from one reporting software environment to another
- Develop new, or modification of existing, metadata describing data structures and encodings
- Develop new, or modification of existing, aggregations to facilitate analytic performance improvements.
- Define new, or modification of existing, roles controlling access to data analysis work products.
- Develop or enhance data analysis work products as assigned by the Government.
- Packaging data analysis work products for deployment to test and production environments.
- Analysis and resolution of defects identified in data analysis work products.
- Create or modify documentation related to data analysis work products.
Skills on Resume:
- Reporting Design (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Software Environment Migration (Hard Skills)
- Metadata Development (Hard Skills)
- Aggregation Development (Hard Skills)
- Access Control Management (Hard Skills)
- Work Product Development (Hard Skills)
- Deployment and Packaging (Hard Skills)
2. Business Objects Developer, SAP America, Newtown Square, PA
Job Summary:
- Create or modify training material related to data analysis work products.
- Assists with all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Assists with analyzing user/business needs and functionality to plan and design software systems to meet those needs.
- Assists with creating a variety of models and diagrams that show programmers the software code needed for an application.
- Performs software updates, refinement, testing, and debugging.
- Prepares reports on software project specifications, activities, or status.
- Assists with the documentation of software or systems for future maintenance and updates.
- Perform independent audits and reviews and validate BI artifacts to ensure data integrity.
- Develops dynamic data discovery and visualization analytics environments.
- Read and interpret conceptual, logical, and physical models
- Responsible for reading and interpreting design documents.
Skills on Resume:
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Software Development Lifecycle (Hard Skills)
- Requirement Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Modeling and Diagramming (Hard Skills)
- Software Testing (Hard Skills)
- Reporting and Documentation (Hard Skills)
- BI Artifact Validation (Hard Skills)
- Data Visualization (Hard Skills)
3. Business Objects Developer, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
Job Summary:
- Review and accept each report specification for development
- Lead and drive the development of technical report solutions using Business Objects reports
- Analyze, profile, and map fields to deliver reports following best practices and design standards
- Perform research, resolve issues, and support the delivery of reports to business customers
- Communicate and facilitate clearly with team members and business owners
- Complete comprehensive unit testing ensuring reports have appropriate content to meet the business need
- Work independently in a team environment to complete needed assignments
- Actively participate as a member of the Agile team
- Take ownership of issues through resolution, including working across teams
- Understand and recommend when to create filters and measures in the Universe vs. in a specific report.
- Present completed report to Agile team, report owner, and stakeholders
- Prepare statuses, update automated tracking tools and reports
Skills on Resume:
- Report Specification Review (Hard Skills)
- Business Objects Development (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Issue Resolution (Hard Skills)
- Effective Communication (Soft Skills)
- Unit Testing (Hard Skills)
- Agile Methodology Participation (Soft Skills)
4. Business Objects Developer, Capgemini, Atlanta, GA
Job Summary:
- Work in data engineering and analytics team specifically in data warehouse development
- Responsible for designing database and ETL solutions for data warehouse and reporting
- Responsible for automation and improvement and management of data load and reporting solutions
- Managing existing data warehouse and reporting applications
- Help production support team in managing and resolving issues as a Level 3 support member.
- Creating new BO Reports and defect fixes on existing BO Reports
- Create new Workday reports using Report Writer
- Migrating the BO Reports from lower environments to Production
- Helping the Business team by creating Ad-hoc reports and resolving issues for identified variances
- Creating new lower granular level reports for existing canned reports at the account level.
Skills on Resume:
- Database Design (Hard Skills)
- ETL Development (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Business Objects Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Workday Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Production Support (Soft Skills)
- Ad-hoc Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Report Granularity Enhancement (Hard Skills)
5. Business Objects Developer, Bain & Company, Boston, MA
Job Summary:
- Design and Develop Tableau reports and dashboards
- Provide operational support for existing Tableau reports/dashboards
- Provide subject matter expertise for designing Tableau workbooks
- Participate in the analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and support of dashboards and reports
- Perform impact analysis and validation of existing production reports and universes after application and database upgrade
- Interface with business analysts and/or users to clarify requirements.
- Work closely with the different business groups to cater to their reporting and dashboard needs.
- Troubleshoot the dashboard and report problems independently, determining the root cause and fixing the problem.
- Understand reporting database schema/model, identify joins/tables, and perform data analysis.
- Implement industry BI standards and best practices
Skills on Resume:
- Tableau Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Operational Support (Hard Skills)
- Subject Matter Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Full Lifecycle Involvement (Hard Skills)
- Impact Analysis and Validation (Hard Skills)
- Requirement Clarification (Soft Skills)
- Independent Troubleshooting (Hard Skills)
6. Business Objects Developer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY
Job Summary:
- Maintain and develop complex metadata and report content in support of customer requests.
- Participate in gathering needs/requests and work with leadership for guidance on strategy and priorities.
- Perform complex data analysis in support of ad-hoc and standing customer requests.
- Develop methodologies and programs for analyzing and presenting data.
- Assist in evaluating data quality, applications and functions.
- Identify data quality issues for review and resolution.
- Contribute to new product development and improvement in product delivery and presentation.
- Provide user support for the reporting environment, including helping users navigate and understand reports.
- Serve as a liaison between the technical team and the stakeholders
- Assist in creating and maintaining a stable, efficient, and high-performance analytic and reporting platform
Skills on Resume:
- Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Communication (Soft Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Methodology Development (Hard Skills)
- Data Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Product Development (Hard Skills)
- User Support (Soft Skills)
- Platform Maintenance (Hard Skills)
7. Business Objects Developer, Ernst & Young, New York, NY
Job Summary:
- Complete analysis, design, code, testing and deployment tasks
- Effectively participate in Agile Scrum meetings
- Uses one or more intermediate technical skills (Ex. SQL, data warehouse concepts, ETL and OLAP reporting)
- Actively works to expand technical skills to increase support responsibilities
- Understand business requirements through interacting with team members and stakeholders
- Develop solutions in accordance with client specifications
- Produce work products that demonstrate quality, efficiency, and effective use of standards and procedures
- Provide timely status on assignments in a clear and concise manner
- Escalate risks and issues with sufficient lead time to avert crises
- Participate in on-call support as well as after-hour deployments of production releases
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and team members
Skills on Resume:
- Software Development Life Cycle (Hard Skills)
- Agile Methodology Experience (Hard Skills)
- Technical Skills (Hard Skills)
- Skill Enhancement (Soft Skills)
- Business Understanding (Soft Skills)
- Quality and Efficiency (Soft Skills)
- Communication (Soft Skills)
8. Business Objects Developer, Hewlett Packard Inc, Palo Alto, CA
Job Summary:
- Designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains database queries and reports
- Works with customers to define and document additional requirements
- Enrich reporting capabilities and assist in the coordination of user acceptance testing
- Develops systematic reporting processes and procedures
- Ensure timely delivery of daily, weekly, monthly, annual and ad hoc reporting to management
- Troubleshoots data integrity issues, analyzes data for completeness to meet business needs and proposes documented solution recommendations
- Converts complex data from multiple sources into meaningful, professional and easy-to-understand formats for various audiences
- Supports reporting and analysis on all business initiative projects
- Recommends and implements new or modified reporting methods and procedures to improve report content and completeness of information
- Troubleshoots and coordinates resolutions for all issues related to reports supported by the department
- Executes release management process to promote changes in production
Skills on Resume:
- Database Query (Hard Skills)
- Requirements Gathering (Soft Skills)
- User Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Reporting Process Development (Hard Skills)
- Timely Delivery Management (Soft Skills)
- Data Integrity Troubleshooting (Hard Skills)
- Data Presentation (Soft Skills)
- Reporting Support (Hard Skills)
9. Business Objects Developer, Uber Technologies Inc, San Francisco, CA
Job Summary:
- Adhoc query or report support to develop or modify accurate specialized reports
- Maintain existing universes and create new universes, outreach and hands-on training for users in BI and data management applications
- Identify, analyze, design, develop, test, deploy and sustain new technologies
- Modernize customers' business intelligence initiatives as determined by new business objectives.
- Perform desk side or phone support as well as formal and informal training
- Provide Identification and resolution of reported database, software or other problems as reported through the Remedy system.
- Perform monitoring system logs and report weekly status, findings and mitigations using enterprise monitoring tools.
- Develop new corporate reports and maintain existing reports in conjunction with their associated universes.
- Support systems tests, planning and evaluations, prepare documentation and participate in user acceptance testing for all changes.
- Perform configuration management of software, repositories and universes
- Promote universes and reports when migrating from the development to the test environment and ultimately to the production environment.
- Provide requirements analysis for all approved changes affecting business intelligence.
Skills on Resume:
- Adhoc Query (Hard Skills)
- BI Tools Management (Hard Skills)
- Technology Proficiency (Hard Skills)
- Business Intelligence Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Training (Soft Skills)
- Problem Identification and Resolution (Hard Skills)
- Monitoring and Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Report Development (Hard Skills)
10. Business Objects Developer, McKinsey & Company, New York, NY
Job Summary:
- Configure, deploy, and maintain SAP Business Objects applications
- Develop, design, implement, deploy, and maintain Business Intelligence applications
- Administer Business Objects, including authentication/authorization policies, users and groups, access levels, and security
- Manage upgrades and support of all Business Objects enterprise products used by the program
- Create, schedule, and maintain reporting requests using both Business Objects and SQL programming (from an Oracle data source)
- Manage client requests to learn desired specifications and deliver practical reports
- Proactively identify problems/issues/risks and provide solutions
- Generate new corporate reports for existing and new universes
- Develop reports and dashboards using Business Objects and Tableau
- Provide status updates regularly and be committed to aggressive delivery timelines
- Maintain and/or enhance Business Objects universes and reports
- Perform and document impact analysis of business intelligence
Skills on Resume:
- SAP Business Objects Configuration (Hard Skills)
- BI Application Development (Hard Skills)
- Business Objects Administration (Hard Skills)
- Upgrade Management (Hard Skills)
- SQL Programming (Hard Skills)
- Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Solution Provision (Soft Skills)