Senior Business Analyst

Job Title - – Senior Business Analyst

Career Level - D2

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

About the team

At AstraZeneca we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. We do this with the utmost integrity even in the most difficult situations because we are committed to doing the right thing.

This position sits in the GBS Analytics Team in Global Business Services, Chennai/Bangalore. Our key priorities are to provide automated analytics and reporting across the enterprise, working with our customers to define key metrics and accessing the data to productionise reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define business requirements, understand business logic & data models.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized roadmap and user-stories that reflects the customer’s perspective.
• Represent the customer within the GBS Analytics team from product/service inception through to in-life support.
• Managing (agile) & coordinating the work of developers to deliver the required results.
• Manage the process of turning requirements to automated dashboards.
• Managing & coordinating the work of developers to deliver the required results.
• Defining and establishing support mechanisms so that the solution will persist in a reliable manner.
• Ensuring that work produced by the teams confirm to designs and development standards so that economies of scale can be achieved during the support phase.
• Contribute to the development of the GBS Analytics values, and by maintaining awareness of external (non-AZ) best practices and insights.

Mandatory Skills:

• Ability to review systems and map business processes As-Is/To-Be with exposure to Process Mapping tools.
• Ability to grasp technical and organisational concepts rapidly, without needing to build deep expertise in them.
• (Agile) Product Ownership as part of a Scrum team, including Business Analysis. e.g. user-journey mapping; BDD user-story writing, process-mapping, facilitation, problem-solving; roadmap creation; “upward” communication; etc
• Coordinating the work of business, IT, and external teams to deliver the required results.
• Clear and effective communication (written, visual and verbal)
• Knowledge & hands on experience in design thinking skills.
• Data literacy & Supports data investigations/validation.
• Familiar with project management software, eg: Jira, Confluence
• Influence decision-making processes and guide stakeholders towards effective solutions by facilitating consensus among diverse group of stakeholders.
• Ability to collate information from relevant sources for analysis and reporting relevant data trends for informed decision-making.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with analytics best-practices & business intelligence tools: PowerBI, PowerApps, AI.
• Fit for purpose solution design and data models.
• Good understanding of data modelling, data visualization and other relevant tools and techniques.
• Experience of working within a global organization.