IT Business Analyst - RDT Biometrics and Clinical Evidence

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Roche Digital Technology (RDT) is where innovation meets purpose. As a global team at the heart of Roche, we are a community of business minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow's digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we're building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.

At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.

The Principal Business Analyst is a senior, high impact role that sits at the crossroads of clinical science, product strategy, and technology delivery. While positioned as a Business Analyst, this role operates with the breadth, depth, and strategic influence of a seasoned analyst owning the vision, innovation pipeline, and feature delivery of the Study Designer, a flagship product enabling clinical trial teams to design smarter, faster, and more impactful studies. This individual brings a rare combination of deep scientific credibility, product leadership, and technical fluency - capable of earning the trust of Clinical Scientists in one meeting and driving an engineering sprint in the next. They are relentlessly curious, innovation driven, and passionate about using technology to transform how clinical trials are conceived and executed - ultimately accelerating therapies to patients.

The Opportunity

• Clinical & Scientific Collaboration: Act as the primary link between clinical/scientific teams and product engineering, building long term relationships and facilitating discovery workshops with medical experts to deeply understand trial design and represent the clinical user's voice.
• Product Feature Innovation: Define and own the feature roadmap by balancing business, scientific, and technical needs; foster innovation through design thinking sprints to identify new opportunities, create compelling business cases, and track feature success metrics/KPIs post release.
• Feature Design & Requirements Excellence: Author precise, actionable user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria; partner with UX to create wireframes and prototypes, ruthlessly filter requests based on value, and maintain a living product specification traceable to user needs.
• Technology & Engineering Partnership: Act as a technical translator by converting complex clinical workflows into structured requirements, leveraging strong literacy in architecture, data modeling, and APIs to collaborate with engineers on technical risks, dependencies, and solutions.
• Quality Assurance & UAT Support: Partner with architects, senior engineers, and QA leads throughout the development build cycle to ensure feature scalability and quality, while supporting UAT design and execution to meet scientific intent and usability standards.
• Agile Leadership & Delivery: Drive iterative delivery, rapid feedback, and hypothesis driven development; own and groom a sprint ready product backlog, lead all agile ceremonies (planning, stand ups, retrospectives), and proactively resolve team impediments or misalignments.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to clinical and scientific leadership, guiding them on how digital capabilities can reshape, optimise, and elevate the overall way clinical trials are designed.

Who You Are

• Professional Experience: Requires 10+ years of experience in product management, senior business analysis, or hybrid product leadership with complex digital products, plus 5+ years of hands on experience in clinical trial design, clinical development, or closely related life sciences.
• Education & Certifications: A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, Computer Science, or Information Systems is required; a Master's degree or PhD in a clinical/scientific/biomedical field is preferred, and Business Analysis certifications (e.g., CBAP) are highly valued.
• Product Lifecycle & Requirements Management: Proven track record of managing the end to end product lifecycle from early discovery to live deployment and value measurement, backed by expert level skill in writing structured user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specs, and traceability matrices.
• Technical Literacy: Demonstrates a solid understanding of core software development concepts, including APIs, data models, microservices architecture, and cloud based platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Agile Frameworks & Tool Proficiency: Extensive experience operating within agile/scrum frameworks, featuring hands on ownership of backlog management and sprint execution while being highly proficient in tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Productboard.
• Scientific Fluency & Systems Thinking: Possesses the scientific fluency to engage in deep, credible protocol design and regulatory conversations with physicians and researchers, combined with systems thinking to see how individual features connect to broader clinical workflows and patient outcomes.
• Leadership, Influence & Adaptability: Proven ability to lead, build coalitions, and influence senior cross functional stakeholders without formal authority; thrives with an innovation oriented mindset and exhibits comfort with ambiguity when priorities shift or problems are undefined.

We look forward to your application! We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants' requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

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