Principal Business Systems Analyst

samsara; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly US

Flexible work model

Health coverage

Parental leave

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Samsara's Core IT organization is seeking a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead high-impact, cross-functional programs spanning multiple systems and stakeholders. This senior individual contributor partners with IT leadership and senior business stakeholders to shape how internal technology and process strategy operate going forward.

You will own end-to-end delivery, frame ambiguous problem spaces, and build requirements practices and standards while advising on organizational design,

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional IT or business systems programs end-to-end.
• Ability to define ambiguous problem spaces and build frameworks adopted by others.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience advising senior leadership on systems and process strategy.
• Demonstrated track record of developing requirements practices and standards that elevate team capability.
• Deep familiarity with IT operations, including financials, SLAs, performance metrics, and service delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the team's most consequential projects and programs, from problem definition through implementation, spanning multiple systems and business domains.
• Frame the problem space for the organization's most significant ambiguous issues, and advise IT leadership on how to think about entire classes of strategic challenges.
• Build requirements practices, frameworks, and standards that other analysts adopt, raising the bar for how the team approaches requirements gathering, process design, and systems thinking.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to IT leadership and senior business stakeholders on organizational design, systems architecture, and process strategy.
• Manage cross-functional engagement on owned programs, including requirements gathering, resource coordination, timeline planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Drive operational excellence by developing deep insight into IT engineering, support, and operations (financials, services, performance metrics, and SLAs) and partnering with management to inform decision-making.
• Evaluate and refine business processes, and propose improvement strategies that scale across the organization.

Skills

Cross-functional IT programs

Stakeholder management

Requirements practices

Systems thinking

IT operations

Job description

Role overview

A Core IT organization is hiring a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead its highest-impact, cross-functional programs. This senior individual contributor role tackles ambiguous problems that span multiple systems and stakeholders, and the frameworks and judgment applied here become the standard other analysts adopt. The position partners directly with IT leadership and senior business stakeholders to shape how internal technology and process strategy operate going forward.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the team's most consequential projects and programs, from problem definition through implementation, spanning multiple systems and business domains.


• Frame the problem space for the organization's most significant ambiguous issues, and advise IT leadership on how to think about entire classes of strategic challenges.


• Build requirements practices, frameworks, and standards that other analysts adopt, raising the bar for how the team approaches requirements gathering, process design, and systems thinking.


• Serve as a trusted advisor to IT leadership and senior business stakeholders on organizational design, systems architecture, and process strategy.


• Manage cross-functional engagement on owned programs, including requirements gathering, resource coordination, timeline planning, and stakeholder communication.


• Drive operational excellence by developing deep insight into IT engineering, support, and operations (financials, services, performance metrics, and SLAs) and partnering with management to inform decision-making.


• Evaluate and refine business processes, and propose improvement strategies that scale across the organization.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional IT or business systems programs end-to-end.


• Ability to define ambiguous problem spaces and build frameworks that others adopt.


• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience advising senior leadership on systems and process strategy.


• Demonstrated track record of developing requirements practices and standards that elevate team capability.


• Deep familiarity with IT operations, including financials, SLAs, performance metrics, and service delivery models.


• Experience evaluating business processes and recommending scalable improvements.

Nice to have

• Background in organizations with complex operational footprints across multiple business domains.


• Experience mentoring analysts and shaping team-wide analytical practices.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote position open to candidates residing in most US states (specific metropolitan areas and states excluded).


• Relocation assistance is not provided.


• Flexible working model with in-person, hybrid, and remote options depending on role and operational requirements.


• Professional development stipend, comprehensive health coverage, and parental leave plans, among other benefits.


• Reasonable accommodations available throughout the recruiting process for candidates with disabilities.