Data Analyst

Provide Business Analysis support for project initiatives related to key Laboratory Informatics platforms, project managers, project team members, scientists, business partners and business sponsors. This is not a technical position. We need someone to pull data from multiple sources (Excel spreadsheets, Oracle, etc.) and streamline it, as well as create dashboards.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Establish relationships with customers, mentioned above, and members of the project teams and liaises between the business and technical members of the project team, ensuring understands the customer needs are understood;
- Act as an advocate for the customers while simultaneously identifying areas like business process, that need to be changed within the business for project success or continuous improvement;
- Define the requirements management approach and change management plan to be used for the project;
- Provides input to the project work breakdown structure and the overall project plan;
- Utilizes a variety of techniques to elicit requirements from stakeholders, analyzes, organizes, documents and validates the resulting requirements, and communicates and secures agreement on the requirements across stakeholders;
- Identifies areas or risks due to requirements and surfaces to the project manager;
- Build, validate and update diagrams, models and other artifacts to describe business processes, conceptual information models, organizational structure, business area context and/or system requirements;
- Establishes the requirements baseline and traces requirements throughout the project life cycle;
- Manages change in requirements over the project life cycle and partners to assess the impact on the project scope;
- Provides input on design to ensure that the design meets the requirements;
- Supports the development of the testing plan and scripts, the execution of UAT testing and ensures that all requirements are met in the final solution;
- In partnership with the Client Engagement Manager or site team, performs and/or contributes to enterprise and local projects.

SKILLS:

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelors degree required;
- Previous experience in project level business analysis;
- Strong skills in oral and written communication, consensus building and the ability to rapidly understand a new business domain.
- Experience with Lab Informatics Platforms (LabWare Laboratory Information System, IDBS Electronic Laboratory Notebook) a plus.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

- Proficiency in MS Excel, and PipeLine Pilot are required. InfoPath, SpotFire and other commercial or supplier applications is recommended.
- Requirements Planning and Requirements Change Management;
- Requirements Analysis and Documentation;
- Requirements Elicitation;
- Enterprise Life Cycle concepts;
- Understanding of Business Analysis Tools and processes, eg elicitation techniques, techniques for analysing, documenting and communicating including but not limited to process modelling, conceptual data modelling, use cases and wireframes.
- The candidate must have organizational skills to prepare accurate records and databases where data quality is imperative.
- Knowledge of internal databases a plus.
- Important characteristics include: scientific background, ability to work independently, and good written and oral communication skills.
- Must be a self starter, well organized, and detailed oriented, and have good communication skills.