Sr Data Engineer – SAP and AI Automation

JOB SUMMARY

This role is responsible for delivering high-quality governed analytics-ready data products that support enterprise reporting advanced analytics and AI-driven use cases.

Beyond traditional data engineering this position requires strategic thinking and strong business acumen. You will collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to understand operational and commercial processes translate data and diagnostic requirements into technical specifications and communicate complex technical concepts back to non-technical teams in clear accessible language. This role is supported by a strong ecosystem of IT and Analytics experts including product owners business relationship managers data engineers data architects BI developers data scientists and platform specialists.

In addition to SAP data engineering you will design develop and orchestrate AI-powered automation solutions to optimize workflows and processes within SAP environments. Your work will enable advanced analytics intelligent automation and seamless integration across enterprise systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Build & Operate SAP Datasphere Data Pipelines

• Design and manage enterprise data pipelines within SAP Datasphere.
• Implement scalable ingestion using ODP SLT SDA/SDI CDS extraction APIs and files.
• Engineer reliable delta handling orchestration and reconciliation.

Design Enterprise HANA & Analytical Data Models

• Build HANA-based analytical models and business-ready datasets.
• Develop semantic layers aligned to Finance Supply Chain Manufacturing and Sales.
• Optimize models for SAC Power BI and downstream platforms.

Develop in SAP Datasphere & Enterprise HANA

• Develop transformations using Datasphere flows SQL and SQLScript.
• Manage Datasphere Spaces compute allocation access and lifecycle.
• Architect virtualization vs replication strategies.

Integrate SAP Source Systems

• Integrate SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW on HANA datasets into Datasphere.
• Leverage CDS Views extractors Open ODS Views and BW InfoProviders.
• Design hybrid SAP and non-SAP integration patterns.

Ensure Data Quality Governance & Security

• Implement validation reconciliation lineage and metadata frameworks.
• Enforce security PII masking and regulatory compliance.

Performance Optimization & Cost Management

• Tune models transformation logic and analytical queries.
• Monitor performance storage and compute efficiency.

Automate & Operationalize

• Develop reusable automation frameworks using SQL scripting and SAP-specific tools to streamline data workflows and system integrations.
• Design and implement SAP automation solutions leveraging SAP Joule and AI-powered orchestration to optimize business processes and reduce manual effort.
• Integrate intelligent agents for predictive and prescriptive automation within SAP environments enabling proactive issue resolution and process optimization.
• Support CI/CD pipelines version control and operational monitoring to ensure reliability and scalability of automation solutions.

Enable Advanced Analytics & AI

• Deliver analytics-ready feature-engineered datasets.
• Partner with data science teams to support AI/ML pipelines.

Collaborate Communicate & Mentor

• Work closely with product owners and business stakeholders to translate business requirements and diagnostic issues into technical solutions and communicate technical concepts back in clear non-technical language.
• Partner with SAP functional architecture and analytics teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant/office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet/slippery floors. However the vast amount of work is conducted in a climate-controlled office. Travel may be required. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit use hands to finger handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or more up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. 

Qualifications :

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7 years in Data Engineering or SAP Analytics Engineering.
• 3 years of primary hands-on SAP Datasphere experience.
• Strong expertise in Enterprise SAP HANA SAP BW on HANA SQL/SQLScript.
• Deep understanding of SAP S/4HANA data models and CDS views.
• Experience in analytical modeling semantic layers and governance.
• Strong communication and product-oriented team collaboration skills.
• Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen: Ability to understand general operations and commercial processes work closely with product owners and business stakeholders to translate data and analytics requirements and diagnostic issues into clear technical specifications and communicate technical concepts back to non-technical teams in an accessible way

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP Datasphere as a strategic analytics platform.
• Experience designing developing and deploying AI agents in SAP ecosystem.
• Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud and enterprise BI platforms.
• SAP BTP governance and security exposure.
• Manufacturing CPG or supply chain industry experience.
• CI/CD and Git-based transport automation experience.

Additional Information :

The salary range for this role is $135000 $165000(Annually).  Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to external market data internal equity location and candidate skill set and experience. Base pay is just one component of Jack Links Total Rewards package for Team Members. Other rewards may include annual incentive and program-specific awards. Jack Links provides a variety of benefits to eligible Team Members including medical dental and vision benefits life and disability insurance 401k participation paid holidays and paid time off.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:
Jack Links provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic that is protected by federal state or local law.

E-VERIFY:
Jack Links is participant in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.  For information about the E-Verify program please visit:  your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time