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Senior Business Analyst/Architect

Grand Rapids, MI, United StatesFull-time$96k–$141k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10
No visa sponsorship

Core

Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and improvement opportunities; design end-to-end business and system solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards.

Role type

Senior Business Analyst/Solution Architect

Builds

Enterprise-scale business and technology solutions integrating PLM, ERP, and engineering platforms

Domain

Industrial manufacturing, supply chain, and enterprise systems integration

Required skills

Business process modeling, Requirements management, Systems integration, Data modeling, Solution architecture, Stakeholder management, Technical solution design, Process optimization, Enterprise application knowledge, Global team collaboration

Preferred skills

Experience with Siemens Teamcenter, NX, Design Center, SAP integration, Engineering data management

Technologies

Siemens Teamcenter, NX, Design Center, PLM, SAP, AutoCAD, ePlan

Responsibilities

Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and operational challenges; Participate and lead workshops, interviews, and working sessions to gather and document requirements; Analyze current business processes and identify opportunities for optimization and automation; Develop business cases, process flows, user stories, use cases, and functional specifications; Assess business impact, risks, dependencies, and implementation considerations; Support testing strategies, user acceptance testing, and solution validation activities; Design end-to-end business and system solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards; Translate business requirements into functional and technical solution designs; Define integration strategies, data flows, system interactions, and application architecture; Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to ensure solution feasibility; Evaluate technology options and provide recommendations based on business value and technical fit; Ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and performance are incorporated into solution designs; Maintain active communications with business users and stakeholders to manage expectations regarding changes to the system and the introduction of new and enhanced functionality; Evaluate and identify solutions to technical issues with application systems; Support development of global digital thread strategy to connect R&D, product design, solution development, engineering, manufacturing, installation, and customer service processes and toolsets; Analyze and define requirements supporting end-to-end traceability from product definition through deployment and lifecycle support; Define and implement solution architecture that enables seamless integration across Teamcenter, Design Center, SAP, and other enterprise platforms; Design and govern end-to-end product data flows across PLM, ERP, and engineering platforms, ensuring seamless integration of product structures, BOMs, costing data, and lifecycle information; Define requirements for handling standard products, configurable products, third-party resale items, and project-specific materials.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC