Job Description
Client: Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS)
W2 only
Remote work (PST schedule)
PowerBI and SAP support
The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) is looking for a Programmer Analyst to assist Systems staff in supporting their current SAP environment and transitioning to Power BI for LADBS’s reporting infrastructure.
- Evaluation Criteria:
- Knowledge and experience maintaining and upgrading SAP.
- Knowledge and experience working with PowerBI.
- Knowledge and experience supporting SAP and PowerBI, both for end users and for administration.
- Experience in the analysis, design, modification or implementation of computer-based information systems.
Need Three (3) References, including names and contact information
Must have good communications skills.
- Power BI Responsibilities
- Recreate active SAP reports in Power BI, prioritizing those with high usage or operational impact.
- Design standardized Power BI dashboards aligned with LADBS’s visual and functional standards.
- Configure recurring Power BI subscriptions to replicate SAP’s scheduled report delivery functionality.
- Develop reusable Power BI templates and shared datasets for efficient report generation.
- Mentor LADBS staff in Power BI dashboard development, workspace management, and report publishing.
- Migrate reporting data pipelines into Power BI or Microsoft Fabric for performance and governance optimization.
- Build and maintain a centralized Power BI report catalog with ownership, data lineage, and access controls.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define KPIs and refine dashboard visualization effectiveness.
- Provide user documentation, training materials, and recorded walkthroughs.
- Ensure Power BI reports, data models, and pipelines are designed for future integration with systems such as Clariti, Microsoft Fabric, and LADBS GIS.
- Coordinate with LADBS integration and data engineering teams to ensure alignment with scalable architecture, naming conventions, and cross-platform data flows.
- SAP Responsibilities
- Conduct a comprehensive inventory of LADBS’s ~1,200 SAP reports, documenting usage, owners, frequency, data sources, and delivery channels.
- Analyze the report inventory to identify duplicates, obsolete content, or unused reports, and provide clear recommendations for deletion or consolidation.
- Provide full support for SAP Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence reports.
- Troubleshoot SAP report and system issues for internal and external users.
- Maintain the existing SAP reporting infrastructure and ensure continued accessibility.
- Document SAP integration points and support decommissioning of legacy dependencies.
- Ensure compliance with IT security and data integrity standards.
- Coordinate with LADBS technical staff and project managers to manage workload and report lifecycle.
- Support and document administrative functions related to SAP reporting, scheduling, and user access.
- Assist in creating system documentation, training materials, and best practice guides.
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