Oracle’s Health Care Group is looking for a Business Analyst, preferably with experience in the life science/healthcare space, to enhance to join a growing team supporting Oracle’s Pandemic Response Services organization. As an integral part of the agile development team, working closely with Product Owner understand business needs for software, identify the best solutions for meeting the needs and document software requirements. Use business agile analysis techniques to build and maintain a shared understanding of each problem the team is trying to solve and the proposed solution. Support team by gathering additional details, answering business questions, and coordinating collaboration with business stakeholders to facilitate decisions.

Responsibilities

• Meet and work with product owners, scrum teams, project business sponsors, end-users, and others as necessary to perform assignments.
• Assist Product Owner with Backlog grooming, User Story development and prioritization
• Lead requirements discussions to document, analyze and translate functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, diagrams, and other deliverables as needed.
• Participate in Scrum Agile events and other agile activities
• Manage multiple priorities, customer expectations and relationships with all stakeholders.
• Assist the team as needed to complete stories and with troubleshooting problems and developing recommendations/solutions
• Bring extensive experience of working within an agile development environment using Scrum.
• Creating the requirements in the form of user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria defined to incorporate Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• Working with the product owner and the stakeholders to understand the scope, suggest improvements to the requirements.
• Working with the UI/UX designer prepare documents like wireframes, design flow, UI etc., as and when required.
• Work closely with the development and QA teams to ensure deliverables meet customer requirements.
• Grooming the product backlog based on the prioritization provided by the product owner.
• Apply best practice and standards to the way that all requirements are captured
• Document business process, system and data flows, analyze processes and recommend improvements.
• Facilitate short feedback cycles to learn more about user needs and adjust accordingly
• Assess ongoing and repetitive issues and make recommendations for future system or process enhancements to increase efficiency and reduce future problems.
• Participate in change request process and escalate changes for approval, if necessary.
• Assist QA in development of tests and ongoing testing activities, clarifying acceptance criteria and use cases as needed to meet team goals.
• Create and maintain process and system documentation
• Other duties, as assigned
• Experience using Agile backlog management tool(s), preferably JIRA

 

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• BS degree and 7+ years related experience
• Knowledge of software development life-cycle methodologies
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum, writing user stories and following the development process through user story acceptance
• Experience with Altlassian tools (Jira, Confluence
• Understanding translation of business requirements into usable functional and features
• Understand big data (volume, velocity, and variety concepts), data lakes and data type models and management
• Understanding of data analytics models and approaches i.e. real-time and batch processing 
• Understanding data transformation requirements, models and processes
• Understanding of the importance of metadata, datasets and querying of datasets to meet business requirements
• Understanding of data sources, import and export requirements
• Understanding the use of ML, NLP and deep learning in context of transformations, datasets and messaging of data
• Understanding and uses of healthcare data standards like FHIR, C-CDA, HL7v2/v3  and terminology standards like  ICD, SNOMED, LOINC, etc.
• Understand the concepts of structured, semi structured and unstructured data
• Understanding of compliance in context of ePHI and PI e.g. HIPAA, HITEC and GDPR

YOU MUST HAVE

• 2+ Years of hands-on experience administering and configuring healthcare applications.
• 5+ Years of Business Analyst Experience in a SaaS (Software as a Service) product company
• 5+ Years of experience in delivering Functional specifications, design documentation, business process workflow, and Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) for new product development projects
• 3+ Years of experience in Customer Interactions role for Product, Services or Analyst
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum, writing user stories and following the development process through user story acceptance
• Experience with Altlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)

WE VALUE

• Knowledge of workflow management solutions
• Ability to demonstrate new functionality to business users as part of end of iteration activities
• Translating business problems into solutions that meet customer needs.
• Producing product-specific designs and configuration experience, detailed requirement specifications and use cases.
• Experience Interacting with Product Managers to understand the customer perspective behind business requirements and enhancement requests.
• Ability to drive iteration planning activities including story refinement to ensure successful iterations with clear acceptance criteria
• Experience or Knowledge of working in Life Science, Pharmaceuticals organization, Clinical Trials
• Knowledge of EHR systems is desirable
• Professional Agile certification

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