Senior Business Analyst - Biologics Discovery Platform
- Facilitate workshops and partner interviews to capture needs across target ID, screening, and lead optimization; translate into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Drive agile processes with scrum masters by refining backlogs to prioritize value and translating user stories into software development tasks.
- Map, document, and maintain end-to-end business processes to support clarity, consistency, and continuous improvement.
- Shape multiquarter roadmaps and prioritize initiatives based on value, risk, and dependency analysis aligned to discovery milestones and portfolio needs.
- Build strong relationships across early discovery science, platforms, data science, and IT; align on priorities and ensure transparent status reporting and decision logs.
- Translate ambiguous scientific or operational challenges into structured problem statements, options, and decision frameworks for senior collaborators.
- Lead elicitation through to validation and signoff; ensure traceability from business objectives to user stories, test cases, and release notes.
- Coordinate between discovery labs, data/AI teams, automation engineering, and platform IT to resolve dependencies and ensure integrated delivery.
- Maintain risk registers, run scenario analyses, and present option tradeoffs with quantified impact to guide escalation decisions.
- Coach BAs and scientists in requirements hygiene, story writing, and value tracking; contribute playbooks, templates, and communities of practice.
- Minimum 6+ years’ experience working with complex integrated systems, preferably in molecular biology and antibody discovery in a pharmaceutical research organization.
- Demonstrable experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools & techniques to enable business change; adept at virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions.
- Experience shaping product visions, defining value hypotheses, outcomes, and success metrics; able to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform scalability.
- Strong engagement, communication, and collaborator management skills across scientific and IT partners.
- In-depth knowledge of computational and experimental techniques used within biologics discovery.
- Skilled in analysing and documenting end-to-end data flows, including profiling, mapping, and how data is analysed.
- Ability to manage high levels of risk by making complex judgements, developing innovative solutions, and applying a comprehensive multi-functional and industry understanding.
- Experience with Atlassian based software management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence).
- Comfort with low fidelity prototyping, journey mapping, and usability testing to ensure solutions fit scientist workflows.
- Contracting and vendor governance including developing measurable acceptance criteria and ability to govern vendors against outcomes rather than activity.
- Understanding of lab automation ecosystems (e.g., scheduling, liquid handlers, plate readers) and how instrument data flows into ELN/LIMS and analytics.
- Good understanding of industry technology trends regarding Agentic AI.
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