The Senior BW / Data Expert is a senior technical specialist in the target team and plays a critical role in understanding, stabilizing, simplifying, and modernizing the existing SAP BW-based reporting and data environment. The role combines technical depth with solution design responsibility and acts as the main expert for legacy assessment, future-state data design, and technically sound implementation decisions.
This role is particularly important in a context where the current landscape may contain custom-built logic, historical complexity, overlapping data layers, non-transparent routines, and insufficient documentation. The Senior BW / Data Expert is expected to reverse-engineer, assess, and improve the current environment while helping shape the migration path toward the future platform architecture.
The individual will have a significant impact on the technical quality of the future platform, the realism of migration decisions, and the avoidance of technical dead ends. The role is therefore critical not only for development execution but also for ensuring that the transformation is practical, supportable, and economically sensible.
What you will do
Co-design a sustainable and scalable Finance Data Platform (Change)
- Assess the existing SAP BW landscape (data models, transformations, process chains, routines, queries, etc.) and pinpoint technical debt, redundancy, and performance bottlenecks.
- Lead the technical design of BW remediation, simplification, and modernisation work.
- Decide what to retain, refactor, migrate, or decommission, and shape the path toward the target architecture (SAP Datasphere / BDC).
- Design robust, well-documented data models and transformation logic, including optimization of the existing setup using best practices.
- Establish a monitoring process for data flows for accuracy and completeness. Design and implement data quality checks and cleansing processes.
Oversee the data life cycle of the Finance Data Platform (Run)
- Own technical documentation of key objects, dependencies, and data lineage.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex defects, performance issues, and reconciliation breaks, with actionable insights.
- Support the Finance team with ad-hoc data analysis and troubleshooting.
- Advise the Team Lead on feasibility, effort, dependencies, and risk for backlog items; mentor more junior team members.
- Actively apply AI and automation to improve platform standards, development principles, and coding quality.
What you bring
- University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Informatics, or a related field.
- Extensive professional experience (10+ years) in SAP BW, BW/4HANA, enterprise data warehousing, and SAP- and Azure-based data integration.
- Strong hands-on expertise in BW modelling (ADSOs, CompositeProviders, transformations, DTPs, process chains, queries, etc.) and SAP data extraction (standard/custom extractors, delta handling).
- Proven ability to reverse-engineer and document complex, poorly documented legacy landscapes.
- Clear communication of technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
- Experience with Data Warehousing, Data Management, Data Reporting, Data Integration and Data Analytics.
Nice to have
- Exposure to SAP Datasphere, HANA-native concepts, or modern cloud data platforms.
- SQL/HANA modelling and finance reporting domain knowledge.
- Experience in financial services/asset management.
- German is a plus.
What we offer
- We empower our employees by ensuring flexible work arrangements that maintain a balance between performance, productivity, career development and personal priorities (e.g., hybrid model/ flexible working hours)
- Securing your future: Access to company pension/savings plans
- Family support (relocation/ childcare facilities)
- Company share purchasing plan
- Mental health and wellbeing programs
- Mobility solutions (Jobrad bike leasing, subvention Jobticket)
- Career opportunities within the entire Allianz Group
- Self-guided learning development
- … and so much more!
About Allianz Global Investors
Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager, managing assets for individuals, families, and institutions worldwide. Our shared goal to shape a future of opportunity for our clients is foundational to our culture and our values. We look to attract, and actively nurture, individuals with the drive to achieve excellence at every stage of the investment experience.
We believe an inclusive culture is key to a flourishing workforce. Not only do we celebrate the broad range of experiences, backgrounds, and attributes that our workforce brings, but we support our people to live and work in a way that promotes their own wellbeing.
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges is what makes us a unique employer.
We are united by a shared commitment: to put our clients first and at the centre of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.
Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our clients and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
If you feel inspired to promote the active asset management experience, this is the place for you. Join our international, technology-enabled, and agile environment. Simply upload your CV in English to apply for this position. If you need support to navigate our websites or at any stage during your application, please send an email with your request
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104578 | Finance Accounting | Professional | n.a. | Allianz Global Investors | Full-Time | Permanent
