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Senior Business Analyst

Employer
Parexel - USA
Location
United States
Salary
Competitive
Start date
28 Sep 2022
Closing date
12 Oct 2022

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Discipline
Finance / Administration, Administration
Hours
Full Time
Contract Type
Permanent
Experience Level
Experienced (non-manager)
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Job Details

The Senior Business Analyst will work closely with the business and technical teams, to elicit, refine and document requirements (ex. Functional requirements, user stories and specifications) in a manner that both reflects the true need of the business, and holistically and comprehensively outlines the solution need for IT leads, architects, and developers. Within this role the candidate needs to possess knowledge of Good Practice (GxP) quality software validation processes. With a continuous improvement mindset, the Senior Business Analyst will look for opportunities to refine processes, tools, techniques and standards; creating efficiency within the Business Analysis process while delivering concise, complete and comprehensible requirements for features, functions, and behaviors of the needed solution(s).

Departmental Accountabilities:
  • Refine the processes & templates for Business Analysis, to make the work more efficient over time
  • Coordinate project meetings, communicate with the team, internal/external partners, and senior management
  • Work with the Project Manager to identify the changes, gaps, risks, issues in requirements
  • Solid understanding on project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and adhere to quality standards and meet customer expectations
  • Ability to work with IT teams and explain the business and functional requirements in detail to translate the technical terms.
  • Train and mentor more junior members of the team, in both Clinical Development knowledge & BA skillsets


Business Analysis Accountabilities:
  • Gather and analyze business and/ or functional requirements from cross-functional client groups to help design, develop, and/or configure applications
  • Utilizing a consulting mindset and behaviors, identify the true needs of the business, and help sell the needs back to stakeholders to seek agreement
  • (Co-)Chair workshops, business interviews and requirements gathering sessions for multidisciplinary teams of SMEs, to identify needs and pursue collaborative agreement with stakeholders
  • Act as the translator, to make sure engineers understand the business, and the business understand the engineers
  • Engage Human Factor Engineering (HFE) to define requirements with a focus to make the user interface as easy for the user to understand and follow as possible
  • Act as voice of the customer in SCRUM teams, when there is no Business SME in the team
  • Own the traceability matrix/ matrices, ensuring all requirements are tested
  • Assist in identifying technical functionality that aligns with desired new business capabilities
  • Work with business teams to define the User Acceptance Test (UAT) criteria and help business in defining User Acceptance test scenarios
  • Participate in the UAT dry run and UAT execution to help cross verify the requirements


Knowledge and Experience:
  • 7+ years of experience in conducting business requirements sessions, writing business requirements and developing use cases or user stories
  • 5+ years of experience in GxP SDLC Validation including 21 CFR Part 11 within an FDA regulated / Pharmaceutical or Biotech environment
  • 3+ years of experience working within the Pharma Industry (Pharmaceutical Company, Biotech, or CRO)
  • 3+ years of experience in any Agile tool (like JIRA) preferred
  • Ability to travel minimally (1-2 times per year)


Demonstrated competency of/ in:
  • Clinical trials / studies, and the variation in need from Phase I through Phase IV
  • Consulting toolsets & behaviors
  • Business Analysis best practices
  • Computer System Validation best practices (SDLC)
  • Project Lifecycle best practices (PLC)


Education :
  • Degree in a life science, computer science, or other relevant experience required
  • MSc / MBA / Advanced degree preferred

Employment is contingent on disclosure of your COVID-19 vaccination status and, if relevant, proof of vaccination.

Company

Parexel International Corporation is a leading global biopharmaceutical services organization, providing a broad range of knowledge-based contract research, consulting, and medical communications services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Committed to providing solutions that expedite time-to-market and peak-market penetration, Parexel has developed significant expertise across the development and commercialization continuum, from drug development and regulatory consulting to clinical pharmacology, clinical trials management, medical education and reimbursement. Parexel Informatics, Inc., a subsidiary of Parexel, provides advanced technology solutions, including medical imaging, to facilitate the clinical development process.

 

Mission: Parexel’s mission is to combine the strength of our expertise, experience and innovation to advance the worldwide success of the bio/pharmaceutical and medical device industries in preventing and curing disease.

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