Sr. Business Relationship Analyst - Remote

Auto req ID: 22168

Title: Sr. Business Relationship Analyst - Remote

Job Function: Information Technology

Location: Remote

Company: Harley-Davidson Motor Company

Full or Part-Time: Full Time

At Harley-Davidson, we are building more than machines. It's our passion and commitment to continue the evolution of this storied brand, and heighten the desirability of the Harley-Davidson experience. To keep building our legend and leading our industry through innovation, evolution, and emotion we need the best and brightest talent. We stand for the timeless pursuit of adventure. Freedom for the soul. Are you ready to join us?

We maximize employee flexibility and well-being through a virtual mindset that supports our highly distributed, global workforce. We take an outcome-focused, people-centered approach to winning, including welcoming the best talent - wherever they may be.

This remote role is not tightly linked to a physical location and provides flexibility in where, when and how you accomplish your work.

Job Summary

Within a product, portfolio or capability area, the Sr. Analyst Business Relationship defines the needs of the business stakeholder and recommends technology solutions that deliver value. The Sr. Analyst Business Relationship assesses incoming Information Technology demand and provides inputs and cost estimates to support project prioritization. The Sr. Analyst Business Relationship oversees the documentation and management of requirements across multiple projects, performing the tasks themselves or managing the work of one or more business analysts. The Sr. Analyst Business Relationship monitors system performance to ensure it is meeting agreed upon service levels and identifies solutions or alternatives when it is not. The Sr. Analyst Business Relationship regularly meets with the business stakeholder to review portfolio status, review system performance and plan for upcoming demand.

Job Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct requirement elicitation by applying techniques such as workshops or interviews and then document the requirements in an appropriate format. Analyze, synthesize, and refine elicitation results into requirements and designs. Ensure that requirements and designs specifications and models meet quality standards and are usable for the purpose they serve. Collaborate with other Global Information Systems functions (e.g. Information Security, Supplier Management, Operations) to ensure that Information Technology -specific requirements are incorporated into the solution. Define the solution approach and analyze potential solutions.
• Maintain requirements ensuring that requirements and designs are accurate and current throughout the lifecycle and facilitating reuse where appropriate. Leverage traceability to determine impact to other work products and sufficient coverage. Evaluate changing stakeholder requirements to determine if they need to be acted upon.
• Document "as is" or current state process, the "to be" or future state process, and then perform gap analysis to determine a solution approach and the scope. Participate in mapping business strategies and capabilities to Information Technology capabilities and develop technology roadmaps that plan the transition from current state to future state.
• Define performance measures of systems in service level agreements and collect monitoring and support ticket data to evaluate the effectiveness of a solution in relation to the value it brings. When necessary, identify alternatives and actions to improve solution performance and increase value realization.
• Meet with business owners of systems in the portfolio to understand how well the systems are supporting their capabilities. Assist in the prioritization of defect fixes and enhancements and then manage the request for change process. When necessary, escalate incidents and problems with the operations team to ensure prompt attention and resolution.
• Maintain application lifecycle plans informed by technology roadmaps to ensure the sustainability of solutions.
• Manage one or more Business Analysts across multiple projects, providing guidance and reviewing work quality.
• Participate in department continuous improvement initiatives and best practice areas. Maintain APM data within the quality metric standards, including maintenance of software lifecycles along with business application, services and infrastructure relationships

Education Requirements

Bachelor's Degree Preferred

Education Specifications

N/A

Experience Requirements

Required

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience
• 5+ years of relevant technology and business process experience for the assigned area
• Intermediate knowledge of multiple lines of business or a deep understanding of a single line of business
• Experience working with multiple software packages, platforms, or technologies
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing other business analysts

Preferred

• Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle including requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, and support
• Demonstrated experience with continuous improvement processes and tools such as Kaizen, flow charts, cause and effect diagrams and pareto charts.
• Mastery of requirements analysis tools such as use cases, user stories, domain models, conceptual models, activity diagrams, and data flow diagrams
• Demonstrated experience with requirement elicitation techniques such as requirements workshops, brainstorming, interviews, benchmarking, observation, and prototyping
• Demonstrated experience applying project estimation techniques and contributing to business case development
• Experience collaborating with a service operations function to deliver agreed levels of services both to end-users and the customers
• PMI PBA or IIBA CBAP certification

Harley-Davidson is an equal opportunity employer that continues to build a culture of inclusion, belonging and equity through our commitment to attracting and retaining diverse talent from all backgrounds, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in fairness and providing a level playing field for all. We foster a culture that thrives on diverse perspectives and contributions to ignite the creativity and innovation to fuel our business and enhance the employee and customer experience.

The pay range shown represents the national average pay range for this role. Your pay may be more or less than the stated range and is dependent on your geographic location and level of experience.

We offer an inclusive compensation package for all full-time salaried employees including, but not limited to, annual bonus programs, health insurance benefits, a 401k program, onsite fitness centers and employee stores, employee discounts on products and accessories, and more. Learn more about Harley-Davidson here .

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Direct Reports: No

Travel Required: 0 - 10%

Pay Range: $87,000 - $131,000

Visa Sponsorship: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

Relocation: This position is not eligible for relocation assistance

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