Ali Touba, Senior Data Scientist & SAP BW Module Lead

Ali Touba

Senior Data Scientist & SAP BW Module Lead

Decathlon Canada

Location
Canada - Montreal
Education
Master's degree, Engineer specializing in industrial and production systems management
Experience
5 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 6 Months

Senior Data Scientist & SAP BW Module Lead at Decathlon Canada
  • Canada
  • My current job since July 2022

Senior Data Scientist Objective: Address user needs and add value to data for various departments within the company. Developed reports and data flows using AWS S3, Redshift, and BigQuery. Data transformation using SQL and Python (Pandas) on Databricks. Data presentation through Looker, Tableau, and other visualization tools. Major Achievement: Implemented an optimal stock level calculation tool for e-commerce across all available catalog models.

SAP BW Module Lead & System Health Manager Objective: Ensure the proper operation and optimal functioning of the SAP BW system (2 production system, 6 non-production systems). Established a control tower to monitor system performance and functionality. Worked on system optimization, performance improvements, and volume reduction to reduce costs. Ensured system availability, implemented security patches, and supported technical upgrades. Communicated system status with the team and coordinated with other module leads as required. Participated in major architectural projects to ensure system scalability. Conducted a Proof of Concept (POC) for SAP DataSphere, evaluating and implementing the solution. Major Achievement: Reduced infrastructure costs by 23%.

Senior SAP BI at decathlon france
  • France - Lille
  • December 2018 to July 2022

Developer & Project Manager - Supply Management Tool
Objective: Successfully complete the supply management tool project on time, within budget, and
with high quality.
Led a team of approximately 4 people in an agile environment.
Developed and documented a planning tool to optimize stock management and projected stock
calculations for 104 future weeks.
Enabled users to analyze and pilot their activities, stock rotation, and view results.
Managed challenges in a highly complex and critical project for the company.
Agile project management experience from development to deployment and feature rollout.
Major Achievement: Delivered the project on time with high user satisfaction from over 500 users.

Developer - SAP BW
Objective: Address user needs based on user cases and personal knowledge.
Developed data flows, transformations (SAP to SAP BW and non-SAP to SAP BW), CDS views,
calculation views, and SAP BW on HANA objects.
Created stories on SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud).
Ensured development quality, documentation, testing, and user satisfaction.
Contributed to data value addition across various projects.
Support Team Member
Objective: Address user tickets, validate developments for production, ensure data flow functionality,
and develop minor fixes.
Technologies used: SAP BW 7.5, SAP Lumira, Analysis for Office.
Major Achievement: Rapid skill development leading to a significant fix for managing the 53rd week
in reports.

Education

Master's degree, Engineer specializing in industrial and production systems management
  • at IMT nord Europe
  • June 2018

Specialties & Skills

Tableau
DATABRICKS
SAP Analytics for Cloud
SAP CRM
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
BIGQUERY
INFRASTRUCTURE
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PYTHON (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
REDUCTION (COMPLEXITY)
SQL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)

Languages

French
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Programming languages Python ABAP SQL AMDP (Certificate)
Provided technical and functional training to the team to enhance their understanding and skills (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • sport (box,HIIT),travel,comedy