Description:
Position: SAP Business Objects & Data Services Platform Administrator/Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA
Security Clearance: Active Secret (or higher) clearance (Interim acceptable)
Job Description:
Seeking a SAP BusinessObjects & Data Services Platform Administrator to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Herndon, VA with some remote work possible. The qualified applicant will become part of Department of State (DOS) Program). This initiative will modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework in order to better support the services provided to CA’s customers.
As a Platform Administrator, you will apply deep technical expertise to support mission-critical operations, drive platform stability and performance, and uphold rigorous operational and security standards in a federal environment. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with both SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Data Services, including enterprise reporting and ETL platforms, and has a proven track record supporting complex, high-availability environments.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage, maintain, and administer SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Data Services platforms, including user/group administration, repository management, job/server monitoring, and day-to-day operational support. Implement and enforce platform-level security for BusinessObjects and Data Services, including users, groups, roles, content, folders, applications, repositories, and access controls in alignment with federal security policies, RMF, and ATO requirements.
- Install, configure, patch, and upgrade SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and SAP Data Services, including CMS, APS services, Web Intelligence, CMC, Promotion Management Tool (LCM), DS repositories, job servers, and connectivity components.
- Configure and maintain scheduling, publication, and ETL job execution (batch and real-time), ensuring reliability, performance, and SLA compliance across reporting and data integration workloads.
- Perform platform performance tuning and capacity management, including memory allocation, job concurrency, server sizing, repository optimization, APS/service-level tuning, and ETL performance tuning.
- Support high availability and disaster recovery strategies, including clustering, failover, and platform resiliency across environments.
- Monitor platform health and availability, troubleshoot system issues, and perform root-cause analysis across BusinessObjects and Data Services environments (DEV, TEST, IV&V, PROD), including CMS, APS services (e.g., DSLBridge), ETL job failures, and database connectivity issues.
- Manage content lifecycle and migrations using Promotion Management Tool and Jenkins-based automation, ensuring consistency and traceability across environments.
- Administer SAP Data Services ETL infrastructure, including repository configuration, job servers, data stores, scheduling, operational monitoring of batch and real-time jobs, and job performance optimization and error handling.
- Work with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL Server) to support data connectivity, query performance tuning, and issue resolution.
- Support change management, configuration control, and release activities in accordance with federal ITIL, RMF, and audit requirements.
- Maintain platform documentation, standard operating procedures, and operational runbooks to support continuity and compliance.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, database, security, and application teams to ensure platform stability, security hardening, and compliance.
- Provide operational guidance, training, and mentoring to administrators and support teams on BusinessObjects and Data Services platform best practices.
- Communicate clearly with technical teams and stakeholders through concise written documentation and effective verbal updates.
Requirements:
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of experience.
- At least 5 years of SAP BusinessObjects 4.x software and components.
- Must have experience in SAP BO user and group management and overall platform security.
- Hands-on experience with SAP Data Services, including repositories, job servers, and ETL job execution (batch and real-time).
- Experience with BusinessObjects upgrades, patching, and migrations (4.x).
- Experience working with relational databases such as Oracle, SAP HANA, or SQL Server, including data connectivity and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting federal IT programs, including working within structured governance, documentation, and compliance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of business and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems.
- Experience eliciting and documenting functional, technical, and performance requirements
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical ideas to varied audiences.
- Experience crafting and coordinating official correspondence.
- Ability to analyze business cases, extract requirements, and understand business needs
- Excellent administrative/organizational abilities.
- Active Secret (or higher) clearance (Interim acceptable).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience engineering, tuning, and maintaining large-scale SAP BusinessObjects enterprise deployments in federal or defense environments.
- Experience administering SAP Data Services in enterprise environments, including performance tuning and job optimization.
- Experience developing and maintaining Java SDK-based solutions for SAP BusinessObjects, including custom applications, extensions, and integrations.
- Experience researching and evaluating new technologies for inclusion in enterprise platforms.
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced federal or government environment.
- Experience using SAP BusinessObjects tools such as Web Intelligence.
- Proficiency in SQL, data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts.
- Knowledge of cloud-hosted BusinessObjects deployments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and DevSecOps practices.
- Experience with high availability, clustering, and disaster recovery architectures for enterprise platforms.
About Us:
CompQsoft Inc. Established in 1997, headquarters in Houston, TX and office in Leesburg, VA. CompQsoft offers a range of comprehensive Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Cloud solutions, ERP implementation, Business Intelligence, Application development, Ecommerce applications, and Management consulting services. CompQsoft is Certified CMMI Level 3 practitioner for Development and Services, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013 & ISO 200001:2011 Certified. CompQsoft is a fast-growing company with a strategy and methodology that is strongly focused on the success of our clients, predominantly the Federal government.
CompQsoft provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and in the working environment to all employees and applicants. CompQsoft does not take any nonmerit factors like race, color, religion, sex (gender), mental/physical disability, and age into account for purposes of recruitment, hiring, and development.
