Alcon · 6 hours ago
Principal, IT Business Systems Analysis
Johns Creek, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expAlcon is a global leader in eye care, dedicated to helping people see brilliantly. The Principal, IT Business Systems Analysis role focuses on serving as the IT application owner, collaborating with business and IT partners, and ensuring compliance with IT controls while enhancing data management and analytics capabilities.
Health CareManufacturingMedical Device
No H1B
Responsibilities
Serve as the IT application owner for assigned applications
Collaborate with business and IT partners to identify needs, gather requirements, and define IT solution scopes
Accountable for ensuring applications are compliant with the applicable IT controls and maintaining required IT documentation
Troubleshoot, identify, and diagnose system and application errors and issues to minimize disruptions, support incident management process for applications
Understand data pipeline architecture supporting site analytics from end-to-end
Strong ability to work with and understand capabilities and data connections across multiple systems and interfaces
Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements and optimize for use as well as identify and remove unused and duplicate data sets
Support and enhance the pipeline infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using OT as well as SQL and AWS
Build analytics solutions that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into manufacturing processes, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality and reduce complexity/redundancy in holistic data systems
Participate in design reviews and provide input to the design recommendations; incorporate security requirements into design; and provide input to information/data flow and understand and comply with Alcon’s Project Management Methodology in all planning/execution step
Document detailed application specifications (User Requirement Specifications, Functional Specifications and System Design Specifications), translate technical requirements into programmed application modules and develop/enhance software application modules
Actively participate in and/or lead continuous improvement activities, defining and implementing the changes required to create an industry-leading electronic data management and analytics capability
Identify and deliver scalable Advanced Analytics and AI/ML solutions in partnership with Global IT Data Engineering and Data Science teams supporting manufacturing and quality function business objectives
Identify potential improvement areas for system/application and connected services
Demonstrated experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with experience with Agile/Waterfall Practices
Responsible to maintain application asset lifecycle & inventory management data in Service Now
Responsible for user access reviews, supporting audits, and identify and manage risks
Proven ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a complex matrix organization while providing great customer service
Support a highly automated and high-volume manufacturing site that operates 24x7x360 and provide on-call IT support
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +13 yrs; Assoc.+9 yrs; M.S.+2 yrs; PhD+0 yrs)
The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
5 Years of Relevant Experience
Worksite location: Onsite
Travel: up to 5%
Relocation: No
Sponsorship Assistance: No
Demonstrated experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with experience with Agile/Waterfall Practices
Proven ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a complex matrix organization while providing great customer service
Support a highly automated and high-volume manufacturing site that operates 24x7x360 and provide on-call IT support
Preferred
Degree in a technical field preferred (Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Systems Security, Engineering) with five to ten years of relevant experience
Experience working in a manufacturing environment and familiar with GxP practices
Experience working with industrial data (OT) platforms such as HiveMQ, HighByte, and Ignition
Experience supporting industrial data (OT) applications such as Seeq and Canary Historian or similar for analytics
Experience working with industrial data (OT) protocols including OPC UA, and vendor specific protocols for PLCs and industrial devices
Experience with MS SQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases to include driving SQL query commands and writing stored procedures
Basic knowledge of PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller), Instrumentation, and related OT
Basic knowledge of network infrastructure (VLAN, Firewall, VPN, File Sharing, Printing, SKIM, Cloud, etc.)
Experience working in a Microsoft Operating Systems (Windows 10, 11, Server 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025) and Linux Red Hat infrastructure environment
Experience in data visualization software including Tableau, AWS QuickSight and PowerBI
Experience with AWS cloud services: Glue, Lambda, S3, RDS, Redshift, SQS, Step Functions
Experience with Data Lake architecture and best practices for managing structured and unstructured data
Experience in handling multi-source, large volume, high speed, and time series data preferred
Working knowledge of Logical and Physical Data Modeling concepts
Excellent communications skills, both oral and written; proven ability in technical writing
Benefits
Health
Life
Retirement
Flexible time off
Much more
Company
Alcon
Alcon specializes in developing and manufacturing innovative medicines and devices to serve the cycle of eye care.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2010-12-15Acquired
2002-03-21IPO
Leadership Team
David Endicott
Chief Executive Officer
Tim Stonesifer
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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