Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understands the fundamentals of clinical research processes, including protocols, informed consent, data collection, adverse event reporting, and regulatory requirements. 
• Well-versed in the operations of a DSMB, including their role in ensuring objective review of patient safety, reviewing interim data, making recommendations, and maintaining study integrity. 
• Identify and document business/functional requirements and workflow.
• Develop wireframes to assist with requirements development, system design and development.
• Document clear, concise, and unambiguous user requirements and system functionality so that they meet the stakeholder needs.
• Maintain requirements traceability across the user and functional requirements to the system design and test cases to ensure the implemented functionality meets user requirements.
• Assist Product Owner with ongoing deliverables to the customer such as status reports, presentations, and other communications as required
• Communicate and clarify requirements to development team.
• Maintain backlog of requirements, change requests, and bugs.
• Prepare training materials and train/support end users on system functionality.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, Biology, Nursing. Computer Science, or Information Systems, or equivalent experience 
• 5 years’ experience working on web and/or software development teams using Agile Scrum methodologies, preferably on an enterprise scale 
• 5 years’ experience conducting and leading interviews to gather and validate requirements.
• Excellent communications skills to facilitate knowledge acquisition, requirements development, and business modeling 
• Ability to translate technical information to non-technical stakeholders, bridging the gap between the development team and the client personnel. 
• Experience interacting with scientific, operational, and managerial staff to capture user requirements.
• Proficient in tools and techniques for capturing and documenting requirements. 

Key Skills:

• Oral and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal and consultative skills.
• Facilitation skills.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Being detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy.
• Organizational skills.
• Knowledge of business structure.
• Stakeholder analysis.