Bioinformatics Business Analyst at 631 Booz Allen Hamilton_United States — Atlanta, GA
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Bioinformatics Business AnalystThe Opportunity:
Serve as a Bioinformatics Business Analyst supporting the direction, evolution, and adoption of enterprise bioinformatics platforms and analytical tools. Apply deep bioinformatics domain knowledge to translate scientific and public health needs into clear, actionable platform requirements, roadmaps, and product features. Partner closely with product managers, enterprise architects, and engineering teams to ensure bioinformatics platforms are mission-aligned, scalable, and user-centered. Apply a bioinformatics lens to gather, analyze, and translate scientific and operational requirements into platform and product capabilities. Elicit and document use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional or non-functional requirements for bioinformatics tools and data platforms. Support the development and refinement of product and platform roadmaps in collaboration with product managers and technical leads. Facilitate technical, functional, and operational discussions to bridge bioinformatics needs with implementable engineering solutions. Coordinate bioinformatics, data science, engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment and delivery. Participate in Agile ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, scrum of scrums, or PI planning to identify dependencies, risks, and priorities. Support platform governance by helping define KPIs, success metrics, and outcomes aligned to bioinformatics mission goals. Assist with product demonstrations, stakeholder briefings, and user engagement activities to support adoption and feedback. Track requirements and delivery progress using tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira. This position is located in Atlanta, GA.
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You Have:
- 2+ years of experience analyzing bioinformatics workflows, data types, and analytical use cases such as genomics, sequencing data, pipelines, or surveillance analytics
- Knowledge of common bioinformatics, life sciences, or public health data platforms or analytical tools
- Knowledge of front-end or back-end technologies used for application development, including SQL, NoSQL databases, or web-based interactive user interfaces
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe delivery environments
- Ability to lead client and stakeholder discussions, ask the right questions, document clear requirements, and translate them into actionable implementation steps
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
- Master’s degree
Nice If You Have:
- Experience working in a public health, life sciences, or research-focused environment
- Experience with the systems development lifecycle and modern data platform architectures
- Experience with business analysis processes, including translating scientific or technical requirements into user stories, use cases, and platform features
- Experience modeling business processes and requirements, using structured tools and techniques, including use-case scenarios, and integrating them with data and system architectural models and requirements
- Knowledge of big data, analytics, or bioinformatics platforms in a cloud environment
- Knowledge of cloud-based systems and data platforms
- Doctorate degree in a Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or Genomics field
- Agile or SAFe Certification
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- Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
- Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
- Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.
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