Sr Lead Business Analyst
On-sitePune, Maharashtra, India
Job Summary
Interact with clinical business stakeholders, product owners, and delivery teams to understand requirements, analyze workflows, and prepare business requirements documents, functional specifications, and user stories. Manage backlogs in Jira and Confluence, conduct workshops, and support sprint planning and Agile ceremonies. Work closely with development and QA teams to validate functionality, manage defects, and support UAT planning and business sign-off. Prepare user guides, release notes, and training materials while ensuring compliance with GxP and data integrity standards. Collaborate with global stakeholders across time zones to support end-to-end project delivery in clinical trials, CTMS, EDC, and drug discovery domains.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of overall experience as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Product Owner or Functional Consultant in IT delivery programs
- Strong prior experience working on Clinical domain projects such as clinical trials, clinical development, CTMS, EDC, clinical operations, clinical data platforms, clinical analytics, clinical testing data, and drug discovery
- Ability to understand business problems and convert them into well-structured epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications
- Hands-on experience with Agile delivery practices, Scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, and iterative delivery
- Experience using Jira and Confluence or similar tools for backlog management, documentation, and delivery tracking
- Experience in RDBMS, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL
- Good understanding of software testing lifecycle, UAT coordination, defect management, traceability, and functional validation
- Awareness of GxP, data integrity, data security, validation, and compliance expectations in regulated pharma/life sciences environments
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, analytical thinking, documentation, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently from offshore while collaborating with global stakeholders across time zones
Desired Qualifications
- Candidates from reputed SI competitors or life sciences technology service providers who have delivered Clinical domain transformation programs
- Experience working with global pharma clients, clinical operations teams, R&D stakeholders, or clinical data/product teams
- Exposure to clinical platforms, data products, analytics dashboards, NLQ/data validation use cases, or clinical workflow applications
- Prior experience acting as a bridge between business users and engineering teams in complex enterprise application programs
- Experience creating process flows, fit-gap analysis, wireframes, user journeys, test scenarios, and functional walkthrough material
- Preferably to be from IIM
- Excellent verbal and written communication
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