Business Systems Analyst 5

Lam Research; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Lam Research seeks a Senior Business Systems Analyst to design and govern Enterprise Role definitions across a global organization. You will lead lifecycle management, map roles to L4/L5 processes, and align roles with ERP and application ownership.

You will partner with business leaders and process owners to ensure roles reflect operational reality, maintain a central role catalog, and drive governance that supports SOX and audit requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s level degree with extensive experience in enterprise roles and governance.
• Experience supporting ERP-scale initiatives and role design.
• Strong facilitation and governance documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead lifecycle management of Enterprise Roles including creation, validation, maintenance, certification, and retirement.
• Define roles based on workforce responsibilities and business accountability.
• Establish and maintain an Enterprise Role Catalog used across Business, IT, Identity, and Security functions.
• Partner with role owners to ensure definitions reflect business intent.
• Document owner responsibilities and role mappings for sustainability.
• Translate business processes to role accountability at L4/L5 levels.
• Map roles to applications and entitlements with least privilege in mind.
• Lead workshops to drive consensus on role definitions and governance.
• Ensure role governance and audit-ready documentation.

Skills

ERP experience

L4/L5 process mapping

Stakeholder engagement

Governance & documentation

IAM awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience; or Master's degree with 8+ years of experience; or equivalent experience.

Advanced degree or relevant certifications

Tools

SAP

Oracle

IAM tools

Job description

The group you'll be a part of

The impact you'll make

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.

What you'll do

Enterprise Role Definition & Lifecycle Management

• 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.

Enterprise Role Ownership, Alignment & Accountability

• 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.

Business Process Mapping & Analysis

• 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.

What you'll do (continued)

Application & Entitlement Mapping

• 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.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• 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.

Governance, Documentation & Sustainability

• 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.

Who we're looking for

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced degree or relevant certifications (CBAP, BPM, TOGAF, SAP-related certifications).

Our commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories - On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. 'On-site Flex' you'll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. 'Virtual Flex' you'll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.

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Salary

CA San Francisco Bay Area Salary Range for this position: $114,000.00 -$253,000.00.

The above salary range for this position is relevant to applicants that reside or work onsite in the California, San Francisco Bay Area only. Salary offers will depend on factors that include the location you work from, your level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Actual salary may vary from salary offered due to numerous factors including but not limited to unpaid time off, unpaid leave, company mandated shutdown, and other relevant factors.

Our Perks and Benefits

At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That's why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits.

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