What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial DWH BA- REMOTE position at Sierra Solutions?
Job Summary
The role of a Business Analyst, Informatics (BA) is to act as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT or other functional teams, helping organizations improve their processes, systems, and operations by analyzing and defining requirements and proposing effective solutions. Client play a crucial role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical capabilities, ensuring that projects align with the organization's overall objectives and deliver value.
Primary Responsibilities
- Act as primary liaison between pharmaceutical industry clients and internal technical teams
- Facilitate requirement gathering workshops and document business requirements (BRD)
- Create technical documentation, e.g., integration specifications, data interface agreements / data dictionaries, data or process flow diagrams, data manifests, SOP's etc.
- Provide client support e.g., scheduling and attending meetings, addressing client questions / concerns, entering and managing tickets in JIRA, assisting with data investigations and analysis, and providing consulting services in areas of expertise.
- Data profiling and preliminary analysis of new data sources
- Assist project managers and solution architects with developer task management, developer work prioritization, and review of completed development.
- Assist with defining and recommending data quality checks and rules for new sources.
- Assist with testing responsibilities from a business-user perspective.
- Capture and present lessons learned from each project for suggested improvements to approach, project plan, and any other optimization suggestions
Education and Experience
- Pharmaceutical domain knowledge, especially sales operations and market access
- Understanding of pharmaceutical data sources, vendors, and industry identifiers
- Understanding of MDM systems, data warehouses, cloud storage, data pipelines, CRM systems and BI practices and tools
- Basic data analysis skills
- Basic understanding of DevOps · Understanding of Agile Project Management (Agile, JIRA, Kanban etc).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Basic SQL skills
- Proficient at Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
- Ability to think critically and solve problems independently.
- Comfortable working in databases