Senior Business Analyst

Only local San Francisco Bay area candidates!

Direct W2 contractors only! No 3rd party agencies!

Location: South San Francisco, CA
Onsite: 3 days per week depending on when the scientists are in the office
Interview Process: 1 and done
Job Description

We are looking for an experienced, senior consultant for our client's Research & Early Development (gRED)'s Research Pathology informatics landscape. The analyst will be part of a digital program that will redesign the Pathology application landscape.

The consultant will work in close collaboration with the Lead Business Analyst, the Technology Lead, and a team of technical business analysts, to understand, document, and translate user needs to actionable system specifications.
Responsibilities

• Conduct user interviews, create epics, and draft user stories for research histology/pathology use cases relating to sample processing and analysis requests, processing fulfillment workflows, sample/laboratory information management
• Provide specifications on process flows, data structures, and other requirements outcomes
• Establish acceptance criteria for pathology user stories
• Maintain requirements documentation, and ensure requirements coverage
• Match collected requirements to the overall landscape vision, understand overlaps and gaps
• Support requirements prioritization, and detect needs for similar capabilities in requirements coming from different stakeholders

Experience

• Significant domain experience in histology, pathology, sample management, wet lab processes. Digital pathology experience is a plus
• Expert knowledge in specifying and employing current laboratory information management systems, and sample inventory management
• Experience deriving scientific data structures from requirements
• Track record of successful project implementations for configurable, extensible, off-the-shelf LIMS in pathology environments
• Experience with Agilent SLIMS preferred
• Excellent engaging, supportive, clear verbal communication skills, as well as clean, precise, and consistent written English language skills are critical.