IT Solution Analyst (contract)

Job Description: IT Solutions Analyst (Contractor) - SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) / Plant Maintenance (PM) and Project Systems (PS) Consultant

Location: Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO Office locations (Hybrid can be considered with min. 3 days in office)

Position Summary

The IT Solution Analyst (Consultant) for the SAP EAM/PM area is responsible for leading work within or across end-to-end solution lifecycle of Operations team at Xcel Energy. They hold accountability for meeting business needs, supporting business strategy, and ensuring IT solutions have sound operation across all Business Units at Xcel. They provide in-depth knowledge of the business needs, business processes, and corresponding solutions within SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and non-SAP connected systems within the Operations area. They provide technical guidance in partnership with cross-organizational team members to ensure solutions align with architecture and IT strategy. They are a key contact to business, customer and stakeholder groups for their respective domain, helping ensure business needs and corresponding value and risk are well represented.

Essential Responsibilities

• Relationship Management: Partner with business areas, customers and other stakeholders to understand business needs and opportunities across all Business Units at Xcel Energy. Represent business partners/stakeholders in input to strategic planning and investment prioritization. Establish and maintain collaborative partnership with internal partners. Provide coaching and direction to less experienced team members.
• Solution Delivery: Participate in multiple Projects, Demand Management preparation, lead and support delivery lifecycle activities, and ensure solutions are designed for great user experience and operational performance. Facilitate delivery meetings and ceremonies. Lead analysis and design. Provide needed plans, demo's, artifacts, and procedural documentation.
• Operations Management: Ensure solutions are designed for stable operation. Review solution performance, and continually assess health of systems and processes, driving action to avoid service disruption and minimize impacts. Drive alignment with stakeholders on maintenance activities and schedules.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Stay abreast of industry and technology trends within Operations EAM area to continuously improve solution delivery practices and customer satisfaction.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position. Seven years of related functional experience required with SAP EAM with Projects or Product delivery practices, including SDLC, Agile, and Waterfall with Utilities client (preferred). Demonstrated ability to recommend innovative solutions to meet business needs. Ability to drive continuous improvement through lean and agile practices. Demonstrated in depth knowledge of SAP EAM end-to-end process and system capabilities especially in S/4 HANA system, as well as industry standards and emerging technologies and methods. Strong understand of technical, functional, and operational details of respective solutions. Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Demonstrated ability to build functional and technical subject matter expertise, process and tools expertise, and drive consistency in processes. In-depth knowledge or the ability to quickly attain expertise on core IT components within the respective domain. Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill set, and able to translate between technical and non-technical concepts. Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results.
  
  

Additional Job Requirements

• Hands-on functional, configuration and design experience with SAP (S/4 HANA preferred with Fiori) systems in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Plant Maintenance (PM)/Service Management (SM) and Project Systems (PS) modules. Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) module experience is a plus.
• Responsible for full life cycle implementation of SAP EAM, from business requirements gathering through conducting business workshops, including gap analysis, blueprinting, design, configuration, testing, cutover, data migration, go-live, training, and post go-live support.
• Contribute to the implementation and execution of the SAP EAM/Plant Maintenance processes and its integration with Utilities Field Execution solutions (SAP Asset Manager, SAP Field Service Management etc.) and GIS systems (ESRI, Smallworld etc.): Asses current state, identify customer requirements and define future state and/or business solution.
• Expertise in Preventive Maintenance plans, Functional locations & Equipment Master Data, Characteristics, Measurement points, Work Centers Capacity planning and scheduling, Equipment BOMs, Task lists, Notification, Maintenance & Service order management, Service Contracts & Service Entry Sheets, Compatible Units, Project Structure and Work breakdown structure (WBS) Hierarchy, Cost Flow Analysis of Work Orders, etc.
• Knowledge of integration of SAP PM with other modules including PS, MM, WM, HR, FI/CO and BW HANA Sidecar integration for Reporting. Knowledge of S/4 HANA Fiori Apps library for EAM area is a plus.
• SAP Certification is a plus.
• Domestic US Travel upto 25% or more (during Projects) as required for the job.
  
  

Pay Rate Range

Min Pay Rate Max Pay Rate Currency Unit 39.23 52.31 USD hourly