SAP Business Intelligence Senior Developer

Location: London, London, United Kingdom

Job ID: R0093878

Date Posted: 2025-09-25

Company Name: HITACHI RAIL LIMITED

Profession (Job Category): IT, Telecom & Internet

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

Hitachi Rail is a global organization working at the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. The company values cultural diversity, sustainability, and innovation.

Job title: SAP Business Intelligence Senior Developer

Location: Ludgate Hill, London

Salary: Circa £70,000 DOE

Your new role

We have a unique opportunity for an experienced SAP Business Intelligence Senior Developer who will be responsible for the development, enhancement and support of the Hitachi Rail Business Information platform, with a focus on HRL’s bespoke Paymech BW reporting solution. This calculates the invoices to the customers, taking into account all charges and penalties.

Critical to the role is a strong technical understanding of the SAP BW & BI toolset and enabling technologies (e.g. HANA), as well as the ability to engage in a consultative approach with business process owners. Strong ABAP skills are essential.

• 
  
• Gather report requirements from the business for large projects and smaller requirements
  
• Analyse report requirements, including understanding the business processes and source data required for the reports
  
• Development of data sources and data flows into BW, including ABAP programming
  
• Develop frontend reports in various tools (Analysis for Excel, SAP Analytics Cloud)
  
• Testing and reconciliation of reports
  
• Day to Day support of BI solutions as required
  
• End user training
  
• To be aware of, actively promote, and implement Hitachi’s ethos, culture and values
  
• To be involved in Hitachi Rail Limited’s staff development and training and participate in PDP procedures
  
• To adhere to the Hitachi Rail Limited’s Equal Opportunities Policy
  
• To comply with and implement Hitachi Rail Limited’s Health and Safety policy
  
• To undertake any other reasonable duties and responsibilities as may be required
  

Essential

• 
  
• Strong BW development skills including:
  
• BW on HANA with composites and ADSOs
  
• Function module data sources
  
• Excellent ABAP programming skills for BW Transformations
  
• Query Development
  
• Analysis for Office
  
• Excellent report/data reconciliation skills
  
• Analysis of report requirements, source data and business processes. Converting these into technical BW requirements
  
• Incident resolution – analysis of issues and implementing fix
  
• Adherence to development and design standards
  
• BW experience in a dynamic and challenging environment, with the ability to be flexible and adaptable
  
• Gathering complex and large report requirements from business, in a collaborative and consultative manner. Functional requirement documentation
  
• PowerBI knowledge advantageous but not essential
  
• Operated in multi-project, matrix managed environment
  
• Experience of systems development and project management methodologies
  
• Understanding of ASAP and experience in delivering solutions within ASAP methodology
  
• Experience of Manufacturing/Service Management Organisations
  
• Excellent/effective communications skills to all levels of the organisation
  
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  

Desirable

• 
  
• SAP Analytics Cloud
  

We value the importance of all of our employees. If you would like to join our fantastic organisation you could be entitled to:

• 
  
• Competitive salary
  
• Annual Performance bonus paid on discretionary basis
  
• 25 days holiday
  
• Pension scheme with contributions up to 9%
  
• Private medical insurance
  
• Personal Accident insurance
  
• Group Income protection
  
• Group Life Insurance
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  

We also offer additional perks for you to choose from within a flexible plan that will meet your specific needs and lifestyle.

#LI-GF1

Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at https://www.hitachirail.com/careers.

At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We would be delighted if you would be one of our followers at https://www.linkedin.com/company/hitachirail