Prin IT Business Analyst

Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

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 Life

SAP 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.

• 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
• 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.

• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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.