Description
Principal, Technical Business Analyst
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
The Principal Tech Business Analyst proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise executives through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities. The scope of activities includes helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks. This role focuses on the development of the business strategy and business architecture of the organization.
This will be a hybrid role, working two to three-days a week in our office in Buenos Aires.
Responsibilities
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Collaborate with internal and external customers to understand their goals, strategies, and challenges. Uncover needs that business partners and end users would not be able to articulate on their own
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Ensure that technology strategies and solutions are aligned with business objectives and can support future growth.
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Develop and document technology architecture that supports business processes, including creating models, diagrams, and frameworks.
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Design scalable and flexible technology solutions that integrate with existing systems and address business needs.
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Act as a liaison between business units and technology teams, translating business requirements into technical specifications.
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Quickly adapts to changes in business strategy; Helps business partners communicate solution value to key stakeholders
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Engage with stakeholders at all levels to gather input, provide updates, and ensure alignment on STS initiatives.
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Participate in the development of STS strategies and roadmaps that align with business goals.
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Assess emerging technologies and industry trends to recommend innovations that could benefit the organization.
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Provide architectural guidance and oversight for technology projects, ensuring they adhere to the defined architecture.
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Create and maintain detailed business architectural documentation, including system diagrams, process flows, and technical specifications.
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Report on the status of architecture initiatives, highlighting progress, risks, and areas needing attention.
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Provide guidance and training to technology teams and other stakeholders on architecture-related topics.
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Mentor junior architects and other team members to build architectural expertise within the organization.
Qualifications
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Degree (BS/BA required, MS/MA preferred) in sciences or equivalent.
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Ability to understand and align IT architecture with business strategies and objectives.
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Knowledge of IT systems, infrastructure, and emerging technologies to design and implement effective solutions.
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Understanding of CRO business processes, industry trends, and organizational dynamics to ensure IT solutions meet business needs.
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Proficiency in analyzing complex business problems, developing architectural models, and evaluating solutions.
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Strong ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and facilitate collaboration between business and STS teams.
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Knowledge of technical governance frameworks, standards, and regulations to ensure solutions comply with organizational policies.
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Ability to manage and adapt to changes in business requirements or technology to maintain alignment with business goals.
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Skill in identifying and resolving issues that impact the effectiveness of architecture and its alignment with business needs.
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Capacity to lead architectural initiatives, influence stakeholders, and drive the adoption of best practices in IT architecture.
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Exceptional strategic thinking, extensive experience, and the ability to influence decision-making at the highest levels.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
http://www.syneoshealth.com
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
Summary
The Principal Tech Business Analyst proactively and holistically helps and guides the enterprise executives through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities. The scope of activities includes helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks. This role focuses on the development of the business strategy and business architecture of the organization.
