Sr. IT Business Analyst - data analytics/reporting

Direct W2 contractors only! No 3rd party agencies!

Preference is local San Francisco Bay Area candidates!

The Sr IT Business Analyst is a member of the Medical Field Enablement team within US Informatics (USIX) and serves as a trusted liaison to our business partners in the US Medical Affairs function to help drive multiple technology and analytics needs.

Requirements

• Drive the Analytics dashboard/Reporting project requirements and liaison with Business and IT solution/Dev team from initiation to completion end to end as a BSA
• Facilitate workshops - story-boarding, translate story-boarding artifacts into an electronic format and provide input in design sessions.
• Perform data analysis to support dashboard use case feasibility.
• Analyze and document data metrics requirements as user stories (scope) and business rules (use cases) and UX needs.
• Plan user acceptance test (UAT), support creation of UAT scripts and facilitate UAT.
• Analyze and document current and future business processes.
• Train the operations team as needed and support them in resolving production issues.
• Perform knowledge transfer to Training & Communication teams. Support user deployment activities as needed.
• Must build strong relationships with our stakeholders.
• Show up with an enterprise mindset and ensure work is not being done in silos.
• Be a systems thinker and look at the big picture while determining the best solution.

Skills

• 12 years of experience analyzing business requirements specifically in the data and analytics/reporting space as the primary BSA.
• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent.preferred.
• Strong experience in Agile methodology and working in Scrum teams is a must have. Scrum certification is a plus.
• Strong experience with documenting Epics, User Stories and spikes using a scrum tool such as JIRA. Confluence knowledge is a plus.
• Strong understanding of data integration and data modeling a must.
• Some SQL experience is a must have.
• Working knowledge of using collaboration tools such as Miro, Jamboard etc.
• Demonstrated success handling initiatives of high complexity and a problem solving mindset.
• Ability to multitask, work in a fast paced environment and required to have an agile mindset.
• IBAA-CBAP or similar certification is a huge plus.
• Advanced experience with data visualization and business intelligence software (ETL, Data Integration, Master Data, Qlikview, SAS,...) a huge plus
• Pharma knowledge a plus
• Experience working with Machine learning, AI/NLP/Predictive analytics technology is a big plus.