Technical Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture Support: Support solution architecture discussions by documenting technical assumptions, integration touchpoints, data flow requirements, system dependencies, configuration considerations, and planning process impacts.
• Requirement Gathering and Documentation: Work with business users, IT teams, product owners, architects, vendors, and implementation partners to capture, validate, and document functional, technical, integration, and data requirements.
• User Story Development: Convert business and technical requirements into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, process scenarios, and backlog items for Agile delivery.
• Process Flow Documentation: Develop current-state and future-state process flows covering clinical demand planning, study supply planning, master data setup, planning attributes, data integration, testing, and operational handoffs.
• Master Data Requirements: Define and document master data requirements for study master, supply planning attributes, product, site, depot, country, packaging, inventory, demand, supply, and other planning-related data elements.
• Study Master Data Support: Analyze study master data needs, identify required fields, business rules, data dependencies, validation rules, ownership, source systems, and maintenance processes.
• Data Template Creation: Create and maintain structured data templates for study master data, supply planning attributes, planning parameters, data loads, validation, and migration readiness.
• Data Cleansing and Validation: Support data profiling, cleansing, standardization, enrichment, duplicate resolution, gap analysis, and quality validation before migration and system load.
• Data Migration Support: Coordinate data mapping, transformation rules, migration trackers, load validation, reconciliation, defect resolution, and cutover readiness for planning data migration.
• Data Integration Support: Partner with technical teams to define integration requirements, source-to-target mapping, interface validations, data exchange frequency, error handling, and end-to-end data flow testing.
• Test Script Preparation: Develop SIT test cases, UAT scripts, regression scenarios, data validation scripts, and end-to-end planning process test scenarios aligned to business requirements.
• SIT Support: Support system integration testing by preparing scenarios, coordinating test execution, validating integration outcomes, logging defects, tracking issue resolution, and ensuring requirement traceability.
• UAT Support: Assist business users during UAT by preparing test packs, facilitating test execution, triaging defects, clarifying requirements, documenting outcomes, and supporting sign-off activities.
• Training Documentation: Develop training documents, job aids, quick reference guides, process instructions, data entry guides, and user support materials for business adoption.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Act as a bridge between business, IT, data, integration, testing, vendor, and product teams to ensure clear communication, timely decisions, and successful delivery of the planning solution.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Product Analyst, or Functional Analyst supporting enterprise technology implementations.
• Hands-on experience with planning products such as Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, o9, SAP IBP, Oracle Planning, Anaplan, or similar supply chain planning platforms.
• Ability to quickly learn Signant planning software and support configuration, data, integration, testing, and user enablement activities.
• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, clinical supply planning, inventory planning, study planning, master data, planning attributes, and end-to-end planning processes.
• Experience documenting business requirements, functional requirements, technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and data requirements.
• Experience with data integration concepts, source-to-target mapping, ETL/data load processes, interface validations, data migration, reconciliation, and defect resolution.
• Ability to create data templates, support data cleansing, define validation rules, and coordinate data readiness for system testing and migration.
• Experience preparing and executing SIT test cases, UAT scripts, regression scenarios, and end-to-end business process test scripts.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical thinking, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• Experience using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, Excel, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, or similar delivery and documentation platforms.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, drive follow-ups, and collaborate effectively across business and technical teams.