Business Analyst

Business Analyst – Intelligent Platforms

Position Type: Contract, 6–12 months

Category: Business Analysis / Digital Product Operations

Location: Preferably in NJ

Ideal candidates should have experience in business analysis, digital product operations, healthcare environments, requirements documentation, Jira/Confluence, and working across business, clinical, product, and technology stakeholders.

Position Summary

Seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support discovery, requirements definition, and documentation for a next-generation intelligent clinical decision-support platform.

This role will serve as a hands-on execution resource working closely with product and business leadership to translate early-stage strategy, stakeholder input, legacy process knowledge, and emerging clinical workflow needs into clear, actionable business and functional requirements.

The ideal candidate is a structured thinker, strong facilitator, and exceptional documenter who can operate effectively in ambiguity. This is a business and product operations role focused on discovery, analysis, documentation, backlog readiness, and cross-functional alignment; it is not a technical engineering or software development position.

Key Responsibilities

1. Discovery, Current-State Assessment, and Stakeholder Alignment

· Facilitate discovery sessions: Partner with clinical, R&D, operational, product, and technology stakeholders to elicit needs, clarify objectives, and document current-state capabilities and workflows.

· Translate ambiguity into structure: Convert high-level business concepts, early-stage platform goals, and stakeholder input into clear business needs, process definitions, and decision points.

· Assess legacy processes and systems: Capture how existing tools, workflows, data sources, and manual processes operate today to identify dependencies, gaps, risks, and future-state opportunities.

2. Business, Functional, and Integration Requirements

· Develop requirements documentation: Author clear and complete business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, and related product documentation.

· Map integration touchpoints: Document business-level data flows, system interactions, handoffs, and integration needs across clinical platforms and enterprise systems such as ServiceNow, Workday, data marketplaces, and related technology ecosystems.

· Create process and workflow artifacts: Produce process maps, workflow diagrams, data-use logic tables, traceability artifacts, and other visual documentation needed to align business and technical stakeholders.

3. Product Backlog Readiness and Governance Support

· Prepare backlog items for delivery: Translate approved requirements into well-structured Jira backlog items that are sufficiently detailed for grooming, estimation, and technical handoff.

· Support governance and milestone reviews: Develop and maintain requirements traceability, business rule logs, decision logs, data definitions, and supporting artifacts required for formal review processes and executive milestone gates.

· Maintain documentation discipline: Ensure requirements, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and open questions are captured, organized, versioned, and accessible in collaboration tools such as Confluence.

Qualifications and Core Competencies

Required Experience

· 9+ years of business analysis experience, preferably in contract, consulting, or project-based roles requiring rapid ramp-up and independent execution.

· Experience supporting digital product, data platform, clinical, healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, or similarly regulated initiatives.

· Demonstrated ability to document requirements for data-heavy products, analytics platforms, workflow tools, enterprise integrations, or complex operational systems.

· Familiarity with regulated environment considerations such as GxP, HIPAA, SaMD, privacy, validation, compliance, or quality system constraints is strongly preferred.

Required Skills

· Exceptional written communication skills, with the ability to convert complex stakeholder discussions into concise, structured, and unambiguous documentation.

· Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, including comfort working across business, clinical, operations, product, and technology teams.

· Hands-on proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and process-mapping tools such as Lucidchart, Visio, or equivalent platforms.

· Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, surface risks and dependencies, and drive clarity in ambiguous or evolving environments.

· Strong analytical mindset with the ability to connect business processes, data flows, user needs, and system capabilities into coherent future-state requirements.