The Senior Business Systems Analyst (BSA), Omics serves as a strategic liaison between Discovery business stakeholders, omics scientists, data scientists, engineering teams, vendors, and technology delivery organizations across AbbVie's Information Research function. This role specifically enables the systems, workflows, and data capabilities that allow omics-focused research teams to generate, manage, integrate, analyze, and reuse complex scientific data.
This role combines strong business systems analysis, consulting, relationship management, solution deployment, and delivery execution skills with practical knowledge of omics research workflows and data concepts such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and/or metabolomics. Specifically, the Senior Business Systems Analyst, Omics is responsible for eliciting and documenting business requirements, creating functional requirements, performing data and process modeling, managing any change communications, and coordinating or leading testing, verification, and validation activities with involvement from appropriate stakeholders from the business, data, and technology teams to ensure compliance and alignment with AbbVie internal standards and security controls.
Responsibilities:
Business Relationship Management
- Partner closely with Discovery business stakeholders, dossier management, Regulatory Affairs, and IT to understand strategic objectives, operational needs, pain points, and opportunities to support omics process improvement.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships across business, data, technology, and digital teams.
- Support creation of value assessments, business cases, and prioritization recommendations.
- Perform additional responsibilities as assigned to support the broader team and organizational objectives.
Requirements Management
- Elicit, analyze, document, and manage business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
- Translate business and scientific needs into actionable user stories, process flows, business requirements documents, and acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate alignment among business stakeholders, data/engineering/AI teams, and IT partners to ensure requirements are complete, clear, and delivery ready.
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
Omics Program and Project Support
- Take ownership of systems within the Omics area, ensuring they are well-maintained, optimized, and compliant.
- Engage with vendors to facilitate system enhancements and troubleshoot issues, ensuring that external partnerships align with business needs and objectives.
- Operate with a high degree of independence, exercising sound business judgment to evaluate problems, recommend solutions, make informed technical and process decisions within scope, and deliver results that meet business and project objectives.
- Exercise latitude in problem solving and solution recommendations, balancing scientific, business, technical, compliance, and resource considerations to deliver outcomes that minimize project delays, rework, and unnecessary expenditure of resources.