We are seeking a Business Analyst who can work independently in a fast-paced agency environment. This requires high proficiency in IT requirements documentation and experience with custom web applications based on Microsoft technologies. The Business Analyst works with cross-functional teams to create innovative, high-quality web applications, advanced reports, and digital offerings for our clients in the pharmaceutical industry. The Business Analyst ensures requirements are defined before a technical solution is designed and implemented. This serves as a key role in the Avalere Health project lifecycle and ensures that the final deliverable meets client expectations and maximized return on investment.
What you’ll do
- Gather, document, analyze, and validate business requirements by extracting them from documentation and eliciting them from representatives of cross-functional business teams.
- Lead requirements gathering sessions using discovery workshops, interviews, and analysis in partnership with UX.
- Identify gaps in process, communication, and requirements to ensure we are developing the best possible product.
- Actively manages requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure accuracy and completeness of the developed solution.
- Supports software testing and the QA team by reviewing test plans and ensuring business requirements are fully validated.
- Acts as a resource to clarify and scope tasks for members of the development and testing teams.
- Practices attentive and active listening; has the patience to hear people out; can accurately restate the opinions of others even when disagreeing with them.
- Improves systems by studying current practices, then recommending and/or designing modifications.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
About You
- Proven skills documenting business requirements and effectively translating technical specifications into accessible business language.
- Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle from inception to deployment.
- 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated project management skills.
- Effectively handles incomplete information and changing circumstances; possesses the ability to shift gears; can decide and act without having the total picture; embraces when things are up in the air.
- Excellent attention to detail and communication skills.
- Proactive, results-oriented problem solver with strong organization skills.
- Learns quickly when facing new problems; analyzes success and failures as clues to improvement; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks. Possesses a high level of intellectual curiosity.
Preferred Qualifications
- Solid technical background, specifically with ecommerce, mobile app and website technologies, data and analytics.
- AEM experience (Adobe Marketo ideally).
- Experience working with Jira and Confluence in an Agile environment.
- Experience at a marketing agency in a regulated industry.
$120,000 – $140,000 a year
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