Applications Development Manager

About the OpportunityAre you an excellent BI Developer? Do you want to work with the latest technology and keep up to date with your tech skills, whilst enjoying the stability that a large and growing organization can offer? Do you enjoy a busy, fast paced, professional - yet dress casual environment? Does joining a team who thrives in our culture of promoting innovation, performance and growth sound exciting to you? Reporting directly to the Applications Development Manager, and based out of our headquarters in Mission Viejo, CA your primary responsibilities will be maintaining, supporting and delivering new functionality for our Netweaver 2004 BW implementation as well as the overall architecture design and development of the BI project including data modeling and query development.In return, we offer a competitive compensation plan that includes free full medical, dental and vision benefits effective on your first day with James Hardie for employee only, minimal cost for family coverage; 6% dollar for dollar matching 401(k) program; Tuition reimbursement; Free lunch Friday; Generous paid vacation and holidays; Job training and development; Life insurance; Disability Income Protection (LTD); Flexible Spending Accounts; Employee Assistance Program; Discount tickets for amusement parks, recreation sites and movies, and much more!Responsibilities: Develops functional specifications for development activities including interfaces, enhancements and conversions.
Defines, designs and develops reports/analysis required by the business using front-end tools and web deployment.
Creates and maintains BW Infocubes, ODSs, extractors, transfer rules, update programs, etc using back-end tools
Creates and monitors process chain load schedules
Supports all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, deployment of solutions and post-production support/maintenance functions.
Assists team in creation/updating SAP development methodology, functional specifications, technical specification and process standards.
Oversees development work for contract developers
Willingness to actively participate in team meetings and demonstrate personal commitment to the team by regularly sharing information and by adhering to expectations and guidelines
Willingness to assist in mentoring staff as requiredQualifications: Mastery level of entire BW model including Info Objects, Info Cubes, Info Sources, Multi Cubes, PSA, ODS, Meta Data Repository, Master data, Transactional Data, Hierarchies, BEx Analyzer, extract and transfer rules, etc.
Demonstrated experience in BW 3.x design and configuration
Demonstrated experience and success in supporting, troubleshooting, performance tuning in large production BW systems
Good ABAP knowledge to analyze and code transformation and update rules, ability to troubleshoot issues and follow up with SAP support (OSS)
Demonstrated experience with SAP NetWeaver products & ECC 5.0
Demonstrated experience with Operating Systems (Windows 2000/2003)
SAP BW/BI Certification desirable
ASAP Experience/Project management discipline
6 years experience with SAP R/3 or MySAP ERP 2004 ECC 5.0 with knowledge of FI/CO, SD, MM, & PP modules
4 + years of BW experience with at least 2 full life cycle BW projects experience
Experience with managing off-source developers
Strong organizational skills
Superior interpersonal and written/oral communication skills
Bachelor’s degree preferredAbout the Company
At James Hardie Building Products, we understand what it means to win. We apply our science, research, and cutting edge technology to enjoy our continued status as a $1.5 billion world leader in fiber-cement technology leading to outstanding building material products for the residential market. Our global operations span the United States, Asia, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. We have approximately 3,000 employees, 10 manufacturing plants throughout the United States and plan to add new facilities by 2010. For more information on our company and careers please visit our website at: www.jameshardie.comDIVERSITY AT JAMES HARDIE
We are committed to diversity at James Hardie in every form. We firmly believe that by hiring and developing people of every background and culture it will further strengthen our company and its people in striving for global leadership.James Hardie is an Equal Opportunity Employer Requirements: Compensation: Benefits:
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