Senior Application Development Analyst

Overview

Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:

RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, the company’s reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The company’s brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, form one of the world’s most widely recognized families of consumer brands.

At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.

As an IT Analyst, you will work on a transformation project to enable the RL Enterprise to transition to a world‑class Distribution solution and set of processes. Based in North Carolina, this challenging role focuses on delivering capabilities into an existing and new Distribution solution and ensuring transition and support for critical initiatives.

In this role, you will quickly understand a complex IT Distribution ecosystem that incorporates many systems and interfaces, both internal and external, across multiple countries and time zones. Using existing documentation, interviews and other fact‑finding exercises, you will capture requirements, analyze and design solutions. A significant part of your work will be to design, develop and test new capabilities within the Distribution ecosystem, leading internal and external resources within a large project team.

• Lead all aspects of initiatives to successful completion
• Provide direction to less senior project resources
• Requirements gathering & analysis
• Gap/fit analysis & solution design
• ‘As Is’ analysis and documentation across multiple systems in a complex IT Distribution landscape
• Documentation including requirements, business process, solution design, functional design, test strategy & test scripts at varying degrees of detail
• Managing implementation of designed solutions
• Testing
• Providing status reports and ensuring all required documentation and reports are kept up to date

• Experience in advanced Distribution solutions, processes, implementation & support
• Experience with Manhattan WMi/PKMS or equivalent systems
• Experience with IBM i / iSeries OS is a plus
• Experience with RPG IV or RPG free programming languages is a plus
• Experience with Mark Magic is a plus
• End‑user experience with Aldon LMi or a similar application is a plus
• Advanced project management and leadership skills
• IT business analysis skills and experience relevant to the responsibilities described above
• Requirements gathering, gap/fit, solution & process design expertise
• Develop test strategy & scripts, execute tests, validate and report results
• Strong documentation skills
• Ability to design and test applications & interfaces between both internal and external systems to support required Distribution capabilities
• Experience with various project methodologies, standards and frameworks
• Comfort in a challenging environment with incomplete documentation, applying problem‑solving and self‑starting approaches
• Experience working in an organization with multiple connected systems hosted internally and by external partners
• Ability to support UAT and provide training if required
• Experience with the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience with Agile, Scrum methodologies is a plus
• Ability to work across multiple departments and with stakeholders in different countries and companies, managing various reviews and sign‑offs as part of delivery
• Ability to identify problems and ensure prioritisation & escalation is appropriate
• Flexibility in approach and ability to manage changing priorities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, communicating effectively to staff at all levels
• Ability to work within or lead a team, sharing information using technology effectively
• Willingness to work weekends, holidays and extended shifts as required
• Availability to be on call for a week at a time on a rotating basis

Associate

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Retail Apparel and Fashion

Lexington, NC – $76,000.00–$ (3 weeks ago)