Scientific Business Analyst - Data

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Job description

job summary:

Here is a description for the type of Sr. Scientific Business Analyst candidate I am looking for:

- Someone with at least 5 to 10 years of Life Sciences, Pharma, Biotech and/or Biopharma domain experience

- Someone who started out as a Scientist, Chemist, Biologist, Chemical/Pharma Engineer or overall with a science background that

converted to IT and/or Business Analysis

- Some (chemical or pharma) engineering experience would also be ideal - in lieu or addition to the science experience above

- Has the IT theoretical and applied background, in addition to the science, and has a CBAP (or similar/equivalent)

- Has done projects within the Research and Discovery (R&D) space

- Alternatively, has done work in the QC (laboratory) space

- Understands the pharma/biotech discovery pipeline process

- Has direct experience with multiple Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems, especially those within the Laboratory Informatics

space (like LIMS, ELN, CDS, SDMS, LES, etc.)

- Also, would be good to be familiar with other COTS especially those within the Microsoft space (MS Project Server, SharePoint, MS Dynamics,

etc.)

- Would be good to have someone with manufacturing experience, Pharma/Biotech would be preferred, but others like Polymer,

Chemical, etc., are fine

- Experience with manufacturing systems like Process Historian, Electronic Batch Records, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), SCADA, etc.

- Some chemical or pharmaceutical engineering experience would be ideal

location: TARRYTOWN, New York

job type: Contract

salary: $.50 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Masters

responsibilities:

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ability to translate business strategies, goals, and objectives into requirements
• Clearly documents the problem statement and comes up with quantifiable business value statement(s)
• Focuses on the problem that the business is trying to address
• Documents the "as is" and "to be" business processes
• Identify, verify, and document clear functional and non-functional requirements using standard methodologies and tools
• Understands the different types of data models (conceptual, logical, physical)
• Ability to map how information systems are connected and the data flow between systems
• Identifies data elements and provide data mapping/dictionaries
• Understands the principles of data lake and different zones in the data lake
• Has reasonable understanding of different databases and can write SQL statements to investigate data
• Ensures the development team has absolute clarity on what are the requirements and what needs to be developed
• Maintains the backlog of request, prioritizes work, and manages business stakeholder expectations
• Pursue data quality issues to their root cause and work with the business and IT business partners to come up with intelligent ways to address issues
• Familiarity with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
• Need to understand this research sort of process (not in QC running things by an SOP)
• Work with scientists and laboratory personnel to understand their business processes and suggest improvement opportunities to enhance end-user experience
• Partner with research scientists and technical teams to understand and define system goals and technical system requirements
• Must be able to handle a variety of tasks, effectively solve problems with numerous and complex variables, and be able to shift priorities as needed
• Speaking to the business and understand what it is they are trying to accomplish to map solutions

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, with members of all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to clearly document requirements and processes
• Candidate should be able to demonstrate the ability to interact with technical and scientific personnel
• Demonstrated ability to perform business analysis, elicit requirements and identify valid improvement opportunities
• Ability to understand end-user needs and user experience in a science-based research environment
• Willingness to work in and adapt to a fast paced, ever-changing environment.
• Attention to detail and a passion for solving complex and interesting problems in a science driven environment
• Analytical with the desire to measure the effectiveness of new features
• Welcome and respect ideas from partners, business stakeholder and technical experts
• Is an independent worker who can also work effectively as part of a team and proactively seeks to innovate
• Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong interest in contributing to biological research

PREFERRED BACKGROUND

• Experience with molecular biology laboratory techniques and bioinformatics methods
• Understanding of relational database concepts
• Understanding of current IT project and software development life cycle processes and methodologies
• Project/Process management experience
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and document an extensive variety of scientific and technical processes
• Demonstrated ability to perform business analysis and identify and document valid improvement opportunities
• Experience in fast changing Research focused environments
• Demonstrated ability to manage and lead software development projects
• 5-8+ Years Experience in a Research, pharmaceutical, biotechnology or scientific laboratory environment
• Minimum educational requirements: Masters degree or Ph.D. in a life science with experience in computer science or information technology

qualifications:

• Experience level: Manager
• Minimum 6 years of experience
• Education: Masters (required)

skills:

• Business Analysis
• lims
• eln
• cots
• Research & Development
• research
• development
• Pharmaceutical
• pharma
• manufacturing
• preclinical

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