Prin IT Business Analyst

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the LifeSAP BA Principal
Functional Expertise — Must Have
The candidate should have deep functional knowledge in SAP domain, and enough cross-functional understanding to see the end-to-end business process.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (business stakeholders, BRMs, vendors).
• Design and implement solutions aligned with Medtronic’s compliance and operational excellence standards.
• Act as strategic advisors, influencing decisions and driving process improvements.
• Mentor junior analysts and manage critical projects end-to-end.
• SAP ECC / S/4HANA experience
• Strong knowledge of relevant SAP modules:
o FI/CO would be a plus
o MM
o SD
o PP
o WM
o QM
o PM
• Integration between SAP modules
• Understanding of SAP master data
• SAP interfaces and integrations
• Understanding of SAP configuration vs. customization
• SAP reporting and analytics
• SAP security/GRC awareness
• Understanding of SAP releases, enhancements and upgrades
• Lead complex SAP initiatives (S/4HANA migrations, global rollouts, PP/QM, FICO, or Supply Chain modules).
Principal-level expectation: They should be able to walk into a business problem and quickly determine:
Business problem → process impact → SAP capability → integration impact → solution options → risks → effort → cost → implementation approach.
1. Business Analysis & Process Design
• Business acumen
o Ability to translate business needs into SAP solutions.
o Strong understanding of Medtronic’s regulated environment.
• Business requirements gathering
• Requirements elicitation
• Process mapping
• As-Is / To-Be analysis
• Gap analysis
• Business process optimization
• Root-cause analysis
• Functional specifications
• User stories / acceptance criteria
• Business case development
• Process documentation
• Data analysis
• KPI definition
• UAT planning and execution
2. SAP Demand & Project Leadership
The person should have experience managing the lifecycle of SAP demands:
Business Demand → Intake → Assessment → Prioritization → Business Case → Solution Design → Estimate → Approval → Delivery → Testing → Deployment → Hypercare understand:
• Demand management
• Project estimation
• Resource requirements
• Capacity planning
• Prioritization
• Project dependencies
• Risk management
• Budget awareness
• Timeline management
• Change management
• Production readiness
• Post-implementation review
Worked with tools such as Planisware, ServiceNow, SAP Solution Manager.
Handle COE process around demand, resource capacity, project compliance and cost allocation.
3. Solution Architecture Mindset
Architectural thinking.
• SAP integrations
• APIs
• Middleware
• Interfaces
• Data flows
• Legacy systems
• Cloud integrations
• Master data
• Reporting/data warehouses
• Security
• SAP extensions
• Custom development
• Integration impacts
4. Stakeholder & Communication Skills Interact with:
• Business leaders
• Process owners
• IT leadership
• SAP functional teams
• Developers
• Architects
• Data teams
• Security/GRC
• Project managers
• Vendors
• Global/local teams
Need to be able to communicate at three different levels.
Executive level
Business level
Technical level
5. Leadership Without Direct Authority
Lead people without being their manager.
• Leading cross-functional teams
• Facilitating workshops
• Driving decisions
• Resolving conflicts
• Mentoring analysts
• Coaching junior SAP resources
• Challenging assumptions
• Influencing senior stakeholders
• Managing vendors
• Establishing standards
• Driving continuous improvement
6. Data & Analytics Capability
Power BI, Snowflake, SAP source data and dashboard/data inconsistencies Should understand:
• SAP data structures
• Data extraction
• Data validation
• Data quality
• Master data
• Reporting requirements
• SAP → data warehouse → BI architecture
• Reconciliation
• Data lineage
• KPI definitions
• Power BI concepts
• SQL fundamentals
• Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms Systematically trace: SAP source → extraction → transformation → Snowflake → semantic model → Power BI → KPI
7. Transformation & Strategic Thinking
• SAP modernization
• ECC → S/4HANA transformation
• Digital transformation
• Process automation
• Integration strategy
• Cloud strategy
• AI opportunities
• SAP clean core concepts
• Standardization vs. customization
• Technical debt
• Business value
• Continuous improvement
o Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking
o Ability to anticipate risks, propose alternatives, and make data-driven decisions.
o Creative thinking for process optimization and compliance challenges.
• Adaptability & Change Management
o Comfort with ambiguity and evolving priorities.
o Leading change initiatives (e.g., S/4HANA migration, process harmonization).
o Promoting adoption of new tools and processes.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Engages with business leaders to understand how strategies and data-driven changes can improve efficiencies and add value.
Work with data sets to define use cases to improve products, processes and/or services.
Collaborates with Business Relationship Manager (BRM), business stakeholders and IT Product Owners / Managers to develop business requirements for product or system changes.
Drives business agenda during solution delivery process.
Functional Skills: Ability to analyze data and trends in order to develop recommendations to solve business problems.
Additional Skills: Problem Solving, Detail Oriented, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Service, Process Improvement, Communication.
Technology: Understanding of systems, software and technological concepts, Familiarity with data analysis tools and data modeling methodologies.
Additional Desired Skills and Competencies for BA SAP Principal
Business Value Orientation: Ability to connect SAP solutions to measurable business outcomes, define success metrics, and assess benefits realization following implementation.
Systems Thinking and End-to-End Process Awareness: Ability to anticipate cross-functional impacts, identify dependencies across SAP modules and connected systems, and evaluate downstream operational consequences.
Strategic Decision-Making: Ability to assess solution alternatives and make data-driven recommendations based on business value, cost, complexity, risk, scalability, and implementation effort.
Risk Management and Compliance: Ability to identify operational, data, security, and compliance risks and ensure appropriate traceability across requirements, solution design, testing, approvals, and deployment.
Executive Communication and Negotiation: Ability to translate complex business and technical issues into clear recommendations, facilitate alignment among stakeholders, and negotiate scope, priorities, resources, and timelines.
SAP Service Management and Operational Excellence: Ability to analyze incident trends, recurring issues, root causes, and SLA performance to identify preventive actions, improve service quality, and reduce operational inefficiencies.
Knowledge Management and Capability Development: Ability to establish reusable documentation, facilitate structured knowledge transfer, develop junior analysts, and reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.
Innovation, Automation, and Responsible AI Adoption: Ability to identify and evaluate opportunities for automation, AI-enabled analysis, and process optimization while considering feasibility, reliability, compliance, and scalability.
Global Collaboration and Cultural Awareness: Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams, align global standards with local business requirements, and facilitate collaboration across business and IT functions.
Adaptability and Ownership: Demonstrates accountability, sound judgment, resilience, and the ability to make progress in ambiguous situations while maintaining focus on business priorities and delivery commitments.
SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.
Exercises considerable latitude