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At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
Business Sys Analyst II
Analyzes business and user needs, documents requirements, and designs the functional specifications for systems and reports. Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.
Essential Functions
- Gathers and writes requirements and design specifications for large or moderately complex systems.
- Analyzes issues with requirements and design.
- Helps to define interaction of data with other systems/databases at PPD or client companies.
- Work with developers, QA testers, validation team members and managers to create and analyze various other required project documentation.
- Provides guidance to associate level Business System Analyst staff in requirement gathering projects.
- Stays abreast with the latest developments in related technologies and share knowledge with team members.
- Trains on new technologies and tools that are related to job duties.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
Experience:
Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 3+ years’ experience working in a software development environment, of which at least 3 years must be directly involved in requirement gathering) or equivalent combination of education, training, & experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Firm understanding of system development life cycle and requirements methodology
- Firm understanding of requirement gathering methodologies, for example waterfall, Agile, Spiral, JAD sessions, as well as best practices
- Ability to write use cases
- Firm understanding of different requirement types such as Business, User, Functional, and nonfunctional
- Ability to write design specifications for moderately complex systems
- Good MS Office skills
- Ability to estimate level of effort for small to medium sized projects
- Ability to mentor associate level Business System Analyst team members
- Strong business skills including the following: documentation, presentation, interpersonal, and communication
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Ability to interact with relational databases at an intermediate level
Work Environment
Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:
- Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day.
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Frequent mobility required.
- Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups.
- Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals. Requires multiple periods of intense concentration.
- Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
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