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Business Analyst – Life Sciences
Location: Upstate New York – Fully Onsite
Duration: 12 Months
Job Summary
Our biopharmaceutical client is seeking a Business Analyst with strong business analysis experience supporting data architecture, system integrations, requirements management, and regulated environments. The primary focus will be defining stable business and system requirements, interfaces, data workflows, and data contracts while supporting testing, qualification, integration, and delivery readiness.
The Business Analyst will work cross-functionally with business, manufacturing, quality, and technical stakeholders to elicit requirements, map processes and data flows, define acceptance criteria, perform gap analysis, and maintain requirements traceability from business needs through implementation and testing.
Key Responsibilities
- Elicit, document, analyze, and validate business and system requirements for data and system integrations.
- Define current-state and future-state processes, interfaces, data flows, and handoffs.
- Facilitate requirements definition and support the development of stable system data contracts.
- Translate business needs into clear user requirements, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and traceability artifacts.
- Distinguish immediate business and system requirements from future analytics and broader data-utilization capabilities.
- Perform gap analysis across enterprise systems, data interfaces, laboratory equipment, and business processes.
- Support design reviews, change control, testing, qualification, defect resolution, and delivery readiness.
- Maintain requirements traceability, decisions, action items, and supporting documentation using Jira, Confluence, or comparable tools.
- Ensure requirements are testable, clearly owned, and aligned across technical and business stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify dependencies, resolve requirements gaps, and support successful system integration and implementation.
Required Qualifications
- Business analysis experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, manufacturing technology, or other regulated environments.
- Strong experience in requirements elicitation, process mapping, gap analysis, documentation, and stakeholder facilitation.
- Experience working with technical interfaces, system integrations, data flows, or computerized systems.
- Familiarity with GMP, change control, SDLC, validation/qualification, and data integrity expectations.
- Ability to effectively translate requirements between business, manufacturing, quality, and technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, requirements management tools, process-mapping tools, or structured traceability methodologies.
- Experience with data architecture, systems integration, enterprise platforms, laboratory equipment, APIs, or regulated data integration.
- Experience supporting testing, qualification, validation, and implementation activities in a regulated environment.
- Understanding of data contracts, data workflows, interfaces, and enterprise data integration.