Lead Business Analyst (Biohealth) Job at Yahara Software in Madison

Summary: 

The Biohealth practice at Yahara provides IT consulting to companies ranging from small startups to large corporates and the Government sector. Examples of Yahara’s Biohealth practice IT consulting are Laboratory Process Automation and Analytics, Medical and Pharmaceutical Instrumentation Product Development, Electronic Records, Quality Management System, Security Compliance, Medical Device Integration with Health Care Electronic Records, Clinical Trial Management and Biotech Manufacturing. 

The Lead Business Analyst is focused on providing Business Analysis services independently for multiple projects of any size. This Lead Business Analyst position will primarily align with the Biohealth practice clients and if needed, work with clients from other practice areas of Yahara Software. The position may engage in a new client discovery project and build trusted relationships with the new client to turn a discovery engagement into long term contracts with the client.  

General Job Duties

• Partner with client stakeholders across multiple client business units (ex: research scientists, product management, manufacturing, software development and lab technicians) to understand client vision, pain points and needs.
• Conduct sessions with stakeholders to discuss current-state scientific and business processes and gather future-state needs.
• Understand and analyze parts of client’s larger scientific workflow such as chromatography, stem cell manufacturing, genome sequencing, radiation therapy etc. and participate in the assessment of how automated systems can be leveraged for implementation.
• Utilize requirements analysis tools such as flow charts, sequence diagrams, entity relationship diagrams etc to depict current-state and future-state scientific and business processes.
• Serve as a liaison between the development team and client to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with scientific and business needs.
• Analyze complex business problems and assess how automated systems can be leveraged to help solve them.
• Formulate and define the stakeholders’ objectives into a recommendation of potential solutions with consideration to technical feasibility, client vision, timeline and budget.
• Researching the client’s market competitive advantages and disadvantages and what external pressures may apply from the project manager and working those into the overall solution design.
• Organize requirements and potential solutions into feature-sets. Develop and propose a roadmap for feature implementation in multiple phases collaboratively with technical leads and project managers.
•  Converting requirements and solutions designed in collaboration with Tech lead into stories in support of development activities such as estimating, development and testing.
• Plan and lead user story development for upcoming releases in support of readiness for development in sprints.
• Lead, facilitate, encourage, motivate User Acceptance Testing, gather testing feedback, prioritizing bug fixes, and negotiating acceptance from the client.
• Provide guidance to project coordinators to lead scrum candences such as stand ups, backlog grooming and estimation, sprint planning and sprint close demos.
• Delegate user story, wireframes and mock up development to project coordinators to develop Business analysis skills for project coordinators.
• Identify project risks and escalating to project manager from the product development point of view.
• Makes decisions which impact the work of employing organizations, achievement of organizational objectives and financial performance
• Has authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects
• When appropriate, leads organizational objectives and delegates responsibilities
• Is accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and subordinates
• Supporting the creation and use of sales materials and tools.
• Utilizing past industry-specific knowledge and experience to enhance sales conversations and build credibility with potential clients.
• Staying up to date and incorporating learnings from IIBA, or other industry standard entities, for software development best practices.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other STEM areas with 10-12 years of work experience in the field of Business Analysis, Product Leadership and Development and Project Management.
• 6 to 8 years of Business Analysis experience.
• Extensive experience supporting functional processes and technical design
• Working knowledge of software design and architecture concepts, sql database design and other emerging technologies.
• Ability to understand scientific processes and map scientific processes to software product features via research or existing domain knowledge.
• High proficiency in visualizing product features and developing feature prototypes using tools such as Figma, Just-in-Mind, Axure or other similar tools.
• Proven ability to manage projects and user testing.
• High proficiency in generating process and requirements documentation suitable for all level ranging from C-level executives to junior software developers.

• High proficiency in use of requirements analysis tools such as flow charts, sequence diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, fishbone diagrams etc.

• Excellent oral and written communications skills, business acumen with problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience in the role of Product Lead/Product Owner using Jira in an Agile team.

Company Benefits & Perks:

• Over 20+ days of PTO accruable in the first year of employment!
• Health insurance options to best fit you and your family’s needs (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
  • HMO (copay or high-deductible health plan)
  • PPO
• Health Savings Account (HSA) option with annual employer contributions
• Flexible Savings Account (FSA) availability
• 401(k) options (Both Traditional and Roth) with guaranteed company match
• 100% company paid short-term and long-term disability
• 100% company paid life insurance plans with option to increase coverage
• On-site gym membership including basketball court
• Fresh fruit, healthy snacks, and beverages provided in office daily
• Hybrid and remote schedule availability for most positions with home office stipend
• Company supported community outreach/team volunteer opportunities
• Monthly and Quarterly Employee Recognition Awards with spot bonuses for outstanding contributions
• Bonus certification program for career development (Microsoft, AWS, PMP, IIBA, etc.)
• Employee Assistance Program includes:
  • Professional counselling for emotional wellness and life coaching
  • Legal and financial consultation and services
• 100% company paid identity theft protection plan
• Employee-run committee opportunity involvement
• Collaborative and engaged company culture founded on realized values and incredible people

If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources via email at hradmin@yaharasoftware.com

Yahara Software LLC. Is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

The current opening positions listed are full-time, in-house salaried position with competitive salary and benefits. Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S on a permanent basis and can work on-site in our office located in Madison, Wisconsin. We are unable to provide any sponsorship at this time.