Senior Business Analyst/Architect

About the role

The KION Group is a global leader in industrial trucks, related services, and supply chain solutions. Across more than 100 countries worldwide, the KION Group designs, builds and supports logistics solutions that optimize material and information flow within factories, warehouses and distribution centers.

The company is the largest manufacturer of industrial trucks in Europe, the second-largest producer of forklifts globally, and a leading provider of warehouse automation. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $96,000 - $140,800 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills. Tasks and

What You Will Do In This Role

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, and improvement opportunities.
• 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 other applications as required (ie AutoCAD, ePlan, etc).

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.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• What We Are Looking For: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Applications, or related disciplines.

• Experience with Siemens Teamcenter, NX, Design Center, PLM platforms, and engineering data management solutions.
• Experience with SAP integration and engineering to manufacture business processes.
• Experience leading requirements gathering and solution design for complex business initiatives.
• Experience working with cross-functional global teams.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale business and technology solutions.

Business process modeling and process improvement methodologies. Requirements management and documentation. Systems integration and application architecture. Data modeling and information flow design. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Excellent communication and presentation abilities Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

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