Business Systems Analyst 5

Lam Research•Fremont, CA

12h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Systems Analyst (SBSA) – Enterprise Role Management is responsible for the design, development, governance, and lifecycle management of Enterprise Role definitions across a large, global semiconductor manufacturing organization. This role partners closely with senior business leaders, role owners, and process owners who are responsible for the company’s most critical end-to-end business processes—similar in scope and complexity to those typically addressed in major ERP implementations. The primary objective of this role is to define and sustain workforce Enterprise Roles by: Clearly documenting business responsibilities. Mapping those responsibilities to L4 and L5 business processes. Aligning processes to the applications that support them. Ensuring Enterprise Roles are consistently translated into application-level roles and entitlements. This role serves as a cross-functional organizer, facilitator, and leader, establishing clear ownership and accountability to ensure the Enterprise Role Catalog remains accurate, scalable, auditable, and sustainable over the long term.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience; or Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience; or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Business Architect, or similar role in a large, complex enterprise environment.
Demonstrated experience supporting ERP-scale initiatives (e.g., SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms), particularly in business process and role design.
Proven experience working with enterprise business processes at the L4 and L5 levels.
Strong understanding of end-to-end enterprise business processes and operating models.
Ability to translate complex business responsibilities into structured, sustainable role models.
Exceptional facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Highly organized, detail-oriented, and disciplined in documentation and governance.
Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels.

Nice To Haves

Experience collaborating with or supporting Identity & Access Management (IAM) or role-based access initiatives is strongly preferred.
Manufacturing and/or semiconductor industry experience is highly desirable.
Advanced degree or relevant certifications (CBAP, BPM, TOGAF, SAP-related certifications).

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end lifecycle management of Enterprise Roles, including creation, validation, maintenance, certification, and retirement.
Define Enterprise Roles based on workforce responsibilities and business accountability, rather than individual applications or legacy access models.
Establish and maintain a centralized, authoritative Enterprise Role Catalog used across Business, IT, Identity, and Security functions.
Partner with designated Enterprise Role Owners to ensure role definitions accurately reflect business intent and operational reality.
Ensure each Enterprise Role has a clearly documented owner responsible for long-term alignment across people, processes, and systems.
Establish and formalize Enterprise Role Owners in collaboration with business and process leadership to ensure clear accountability for role accuracy and sustainability.
Define and document role owner responsibilities, including stewardship of business responsibilities, L4/L5 process mappings, and application alignment.
Serve as the primary facilitator connecting role owners, process owners, and application owners to ensure consistent and traceable mapping of people → processes → systems.
Enable clear communication, decision-making, and escalation paths for role definition, changes, and exceptions.
Ensure role owners are actively engaged throughout the role lifecycle, including onboarding of new roles, periodic reviews, and change management.
Partner with business leaders, process owners, and Enterprise Role Owners to document and maintain L4 and L5 business processes across core enterprise domains.
Translate business process ownership into clear role accountability and responsibility models.
Ensure accountability for process-to-role mappings is clearly assigned, validated, and documented.
Align process definitions with ERP-based operating models and enterprise process standards.
Map Enterprise Roles to the enterprise applications that support assigned business processes, including ERP, MES, PLM, SCM, Finance, HR, and custom systems.
Partner with application owners, security teams, and Enterprise Role Owners to define application-level roles and entitlements that support each Enterprise Role.
Ensure Enterprise Roles translate into consistent, reusable, and least-privilege access models at the application level.
Validate that application access accurately enables L4/L5 processes without over-provisioning or unnecessary risk.
Ensure role owners review and approve how Enterprise Roles are implemented across systems.
Act as a trusted advisor and facilitator to business leaders, role owners, process owners, IT, Security, and Identity teams.
Lead structured workshops and working sessions to drive consensus on role definitions, process accountability, and system access.
Resolve conflicts between business needs, system constraints, and security requirements through data-driven analysis and collaboration.
Influence outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Establish and enforce governance standards for Enterprise Role creation, ownership, change management, and exception handling.
Produce and maintain high-quality documentation, including: Enterprise Role definitions and descriptions, Role ownership assignments, L4/L5 process-to-role mappings, Application and entitlement mappings, RACI and accountability models.
Ensure Enterprise Role models support audit, compliance, and internal control requirements (e.g., SOX).
Design role governance processes that scale with organizational growth, acquisitions, and system evolution.