PLM Functional Consultant (69597)

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Sweden; Remote; SEK 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara is seeking a Functional Consultant / Business Analyst to lead the Requirements Management layer for Polarion and Teamcenter within a large-scale PLM program. You will connect customer stakeholders, engineering, quality, product, compliance, IT, and offshore teams to define processes, configure solutions, and drive adoption.

You will elicit and prioritize requirements, plan discovery workshops, and translate needs into future-state processes and user stories while ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience with requirements management from discovery to validation.
• Knowledge of Polarion ALM work items, LiveDocs, workflows, traceability, baselines, tests.
• Familiarity with Teamcenter product structures, workflows, change/configuration management, data models.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to align priorities, scope, and outcomes in a large PLM program.
• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Plan discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, and requirement reviews.
• Prioritize requirements for Polarion and Teamcenter to fit business processes and program goals.
• Translate needs into future-state processes, user stories, acceptance criteria, and specifications.
• Coordinate with offshore development to ensure delivered capabilities meet needs.
• Design Polarion structures for capture, hierarchy, workflows, baselines, and validation.
• Define integration requirements for Polarion and Teamcenter.
• Establish end-to-end traceability across levels from business to test.
• Lead UAT preparation, defect clarification, and training.

Skills

Requirements lifecycle management

Systems engineering

Workshop facilitation

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering/CS/IS

Tools

Polarion ALM

Teamcenter

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Function IoT Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data. If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description Stockholm,Vasteras Functional Consultant / Business Analyst - Polarion and Teamcenter

Lead the implementation of Requirements Management capabilities for Polarion and Teamcenter within a large-scale PLM implementation program. Act as the Business Analyst connecting customer stakeholders, engineering, quality, product, compliance, IT, and the offshore development team to define processes, configure the solution, establish traceability, and support adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with customer stakeholders throughout a large-scale PLM implementation program to align business priorities, processes, scope, and solution outcomes.
• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Plan and facilitate discovery workshops, process walkthroughs, requirement reviews, and solution demonstrations.
• Gather, analyze, clarify, and prioritize customer requirements for both Polarion and Teamcenter, ensuring alignment with business processes and program objectives.
• Translate business needs into future-state processes, user stories, acceptance criteria, and configuration specifications.
• Work closely with the offshore development team to communicate requirements, clarify functional expectations, review solution designs, support development, and ensure delivered capabilities meet customer needs.
• Design Polarion structures for requirement capture, hierarchy, attributes, workflows, baselines, approvals, verification, and validation.
• Define functional and data-exchange requirements for Polarion and Teamcenter integration.
• Establish end-to-end traceability across business, system, subsystem, component, test, and validation levels.
• Support requirement change control, impact analysis, auditability, dashboards, reporting, and compliance evidence.
• Lead UAT preparation, defect clarification, solution acceptance, training, adoption, and operational handover.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Strong Polarion ALM experience covering work items, LiveDocs, workflows, traceability, baselines, test management, reports, and dashboards.
• Working knowledge of Teamcenter product structures, workflows, change management, configuration management, and data-model concepts.
• Experience in energy, power systems, utilities, industrial equipment, or another regulated engineering environment.

Key Skills

• Requirements lifecycle management, decomposition, verification and validation, and impact analysis.
• Systems engineering, digital thread, MBSE, and V-model awareness.
• Workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, analytical thinking, documentation, and executive communication.
• Familiarity with IEC, IEEE, ISO, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Azure DevOps, or Jira.

About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with. We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

Hitachi brings together the world’s greatest minds to help breathe life into new possibilities – and drive innovation for a better future. That’s why we look for individuals who share our pioneering spirit, have imaginative ideas and are fearless when it comes to tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Our people love technology – and they love making a difference. They have a passion for finding new solutions and working with brilliant colleagues. Every day they dedicate themselves to a huge range of exciting projects, contributing to the Hitachi vision around the globe. From engineering new sustainability solutions that conserve water and energy to creating the infrastructure for the smart cities of tomorrow, there’s no challenge too great for our pioneers. And there’s no shortage of opportunities for you to make a difference. Come and experience the dynamic, collaborative and creative environments where your ideas are welcome and new discoveries are waiting. To help you grow to your full potential, we strive to support our employees in their career aspirations and promote the freedom to explore new horizons.

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