ICT Associate

**** THIS IS A LOCAL POSITION FOR WHICH ONLY APPLICANTS WHO ARE SPANISH OR EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENS OR APPLICANTS WHO POSSESS A VALID RESIDENCE AND WORK PERMIT IN SPAIN ARE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION**** This is a position in UNOPS for supporting projects carried out for the United Nations Secretariat. The incumbent of this position will be a staff member of UNOPS under its full responsibility.

UNOPS has signed a Financial Agreement with the Enterprise Resource Planning Solution Division (ERPSD), and its primary objectives are: 

1. Improve and support all deployed Umoja solutions. 

2. Continue to innovate and introduce fit-for-purpose exciting ERP products. 

Umoja is a continuous organizational transformation, enabling high-quality, and cost-effective service delivery for evolving United Nations mandates, anywhere in the world. By updating skills, harmonizing practices and applying global technology, Umoja maximizes productivity of the UN’s human, financial and material resources.
One of the most transformative benefits which Umoja provides to the UN is the ability to conduct complex analyses of critical data. By aggregating operational data for analytics across functional areas within the Organization, Umoja frees up time for higher value-added activities, which would have been otherwise spent on inefficient, paper-based tasks.

Under the overall supervision of UNOPS Senior Programme Manager, the ICT Associate - Data and Analytics will carry out his/her tasks within the United Nations Global Service Center (UNGSC) Office in Valencia, Spain and will report to the Analytics Delivery Lead or designated personnel.

The personnel will be responsible for the following duties:

Summary of Key Functions:

Enterprise Data & Analytics development and modeling

Data platform support and maintenance

Knowledge management and documentation

Functional Responsibilities:

Enterprise Data & Analytics Development

• Build and maintain data pipelines and integrations using SAP Datasphere and SAP BTP.

• Assist in the monitoring of Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) processes to bring data from various data sources into data repositories and warehouses

• Design and develop data models using SAP HANA (XSA) and Core Data Services (CDS) views.

• Analyze business requirements and deliver scalable, semantically rich data solutions.

• Contribute to the implementation of AI/ML models within the SAP ecosystem, leveraging tools available in SAP BTP.

• Understand and work within SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) architecture, including integration with external platforms (e.g Databricks)

• Assist in the development of SAP HANA views and SAP Business Warehouse (BW) data models.

• Assist in the design and development of reports and dashboards using tools like SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) 

Data Platform Support and Maintenance

• Perform unit testing and validation of reports and data models.

• Troubleshoot and resolve data-related incidents and service requests.

• Analyze and support the integration of existing ETL processes with modern SAP tools such as Datasphere and BTP, ensuring alignment with enterprise data architecture and governance models.

Knowledge Management and Documentation

• Create and maintain technical documentation, data dictionaries, and process guides.

• Contribute to the development of training materials and knowledge base articles.

• Support internal knowledge sharing and best practices adoption.

Perform other duties as may be reasonably required and in line with the incumbent’s scope of services above.