**Auto req ID** 16211BR
**Job Title** GFIT Team Lead - BO
**Country of Work Location** India
**Work Location** Bangalore
**Company Description** Shell began operations in India more than 80 years ago. At Shell India, we invest in our people through our industry-leading development programmes, which see our employees, thrive and gain access to experts on a local and global level. To date, we have invested more than US$ 1 billion already in India’s energy sector alone, in socially and environmentally responsible ways. Shell is the only global major to have a fuel retail license in India. Shell aims to establish a new IT hub in Bangalore, and scale it up over a five year period. Purpose of the IT Function is to enable the Business by focusing on business outcomes, delivering fit for business technology solutions which enable business agility and profitable growth.
**Job Description**
Shell’s Management Information Centre of Excellence (MI CoE) is looking for a BusinessObjects Team Lead to manage our BO capability. The successful applicant will be responsible for day to day management of a large pool of Junior and Senior BusinessObjects developers, ensuring successful delivery of multiple projects as well as overseeing the development of skills within the team. This individual will also play an instrumental role in growing our new Bangalore team.
In addition to the team leadership role, the successful candidate will be responsible for interfacing with the business at multiple levels to perform business analysis, to identify and prioritize opportunities and to propose and deliver solutions that are in line with Shell's SAP strategy. The Team lead will work with the team to plan and deliver projects and enhancements according to IT roadmaps that are agreed with stakeholders such as portfolio managers and architects, as well as business user communities.
This senior role would suit a candidate with not only very strong technical skills but also project & programme management experience.
**Functional Skills:**
+ Displays strong leadership skills for a large, global team and has the ability to coach and guide juniors. Adept at navigating cultural differences.
+ Strong analysis and communication skills. Able to manage conflict and misalignment within the team and with the business.
+ Ability to influence & deliver without direct line authority.
+ Willingness to step out of comfort zone and engage with new fields and develop new skills.
+ Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and influence decision making process.
+ Skill Pool governance and management / coordination of all activities of the skillpool globally, with support from more senior team members.
+ Able to schedule and prioritise work across team members.
+ Nurture and develop the talent pool. The successful applicant will have strategic steer locally.
+ Ability to work independently without guidance or supervision.
+ Can aid in estimating front end implementation efforts for budgeting and planning purposes.
+ Able to drive workshops with the business to gather requirements and translate those to front end and reporting solutions.
+ Ability to understand business requirements and translate into business plan.
+ Experience with working in Agile projects.
+ Experience with implementing Cloud, PaaS and SaaS solutions.
+ Experience with Continuous Improvement ways of working.
+ Experience with IT controls, compliance and security.
+ Preferably good understanding of the Oil & Gas industry.
**Requirements**
+ Graduate or Post graduate in any discipline.
+ Years of experience 12 - 17 yrs
+ Technically credible in the area of frontend reporting technologies.
**Technical Skills:**
+ Web Intelligence
+ Create complex Web Intelligence documents using advanced query and reporting techniques
+ Combined queries and sub-queries.
+ Character and date string functions.
+ Variables and calculation contexts.
+ Link documents using hyperlinks
+ Information Design Tool.
+ Understand advanced data foundation and business layer functionality in order to provide robust reporting capabilities to business users.
+ Create universe from different data sources, Create multisource Universe and relational source, Join Tables etc.
+ Working knowledge of SQL and relational, also OLAP database management systems concepts and structures
+ Bex Query Designer
+ Expert understanding of BEx Query designer
+ Use of structures
+ Use of exception aggregation and non-aggregating key figures
+ Ability to create and adjust user exit variables
+ BO Dashboards / Xcelsius 2008
+ Create interactive visualizations based on Microsoft Excel workbooks using BusinessObjects™ Xcelsius Enterprise 2008.
+ Able to quickly create visualizations and dashboards with minimal effort.
+ Design Studio
+ Use different components to create and design applications
+ Use scripting to realize more complex scenarios
+ Design applications optimized for desktop clients. Experience optimising designs for mobile devices is also desirable
+ Understand the integration scenarios with the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform
+ Strong understanding of JavaScript to define custom components in Design Studio
+ Ability to map business process to end to end reporting designs
+ Should be familiar with methods for connecting their dashboards to popular live data sources (SAP HANA, BW, SQL Server).
+ Should be able to shorten their development time using templates, themes and best practices when designing dashboards.
+ Understands data visualization best practices and theory. E.g. Tufte.
**Tool Experience:**
+ Mandatory
+ Web Intelligence
+ Information Design Tool / Universe Designer
+ BEx Query Designer
+ BO Dashboards / Xcelsius 2008
+ Design Studio
+ Optional
+ Crystal Reports
+ Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office/OLAP
+ SAP Lumira
+ JavaScript, HTML5
+ Spotfire
+ Tableau
**No. of Positions** 1
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**Removal Date** 16-Jun-2016
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