Lead/Senior Business Analyst - Pharma + Biotech + AI Solutions

Epam Systems; Chennai, Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc in Chennai is seeking a Lead/Senior Business Analyst to drive end-to-end delivery of a Data Catalogue and Unified Ontology initiative in a Biomedical Research Digital & Data environment. You will translate business, scientific, semantic, and governance needs into actionable requirements across the product lifecycle, collaborating across product, engineering, and QA teams.

You will define requirements for data asset and semantic models, govern data contracts, and help shape

Qualifications

• 7–15 years IT experience with 7+ years BA in software/data/digital delivery.
• Agile delivery experience (Scrum and/or Kanban) with Jira/Confluence.
• Proven ability to elicit and document BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management across cross-functional teams.
• Excellent English communication; Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher.

Responsibilities

• Define, prioritize, and elicit requirements via interviews, workshops, and analysis.
• Translate needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and backlog items.
• Analyze current and future workflows for registration, governance, cataloging, discovery.
• Define requirements for the data asset model, semantic models, and governance policies.
• Document integrations across registration, ontology, data contracts, governance, and discovery platforms.
• Define scientist and data-consumer journeys and support agentic discovery with UX/UI teams.
• Structure work in Jira/Confluence, participate in Agile ceremonies, and partner with QA on tests.
• Track post-release feedback and support rollout, adoption, and change management.

Skills

BRD/FRD workshops

User stories

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Requirements elicitation

English communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We are seeking a Lead/Senior Business Analyst to support the end-to-end delivery of a Data Catalogue & Unified Ontology initiative within a Biomedical Research Digital & Data environment. This initiative is building a governed, semantic, and AI-ready data discovery capability, connecting authoritative registration and governance, a unified ontology and common data asset metadata model, metadata and data contracts, enterprise catalogue interoperability, and scientific discovery through agentic experiences.

The Business Analyst will work closely with the Product Manager, Delivery Lead, Unified Ontology Lead, Data Governance, scientific stakeholders, Engineering, UX/UI, platform teams, and Quality Engineering to translate business, scientific, semantic, and governance needs into clear, implementable requirements, bridging scientific/user needs and technical implementation across the full product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Define, prioritize, and elicit requirements through interviews, workshops, and process analysis
• Translate needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and backlog items, maintaining traceability to outcomes
• Analyze current and future workflows for registration, governance, cataloging, discovery, and reuse
• Define requirements for the data asset model, semantic models, and governance policies, including authoritative sources and machine-readable metadata
• Document integrations across registration, ontology, data contracts, governance, and discovery platforms, including mappings, APIs, and exception scenarios
• Define scientist and data-consumer journeys and support conversational and agentic discovery requirements in collaboration with UX/UI and discovery teams
• Structure work in Jira and Confluence, participate in Agile ceremonies, and partner with QA on test scenarios and UAT
• Track post-release feedback and support rollout, adoption, and change management

Requirements

• 7–15 years of general IT experience, with 7+ years as a Business Analyst in software, data, or digital product delivery
• Background in Agile delivery (Scrum and/or Kanban) with hands-on proficiency in Jira and Confluence
• Proven capability to elicit and document BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows
• Expertise in requirement gathering and stakeholder management across cross-functional teams, including facilitating workshops for mixed technical and domain audiences
• Strong analytical skills and excellent English communication
• English proficiency at an Upper-Intermediate level (B2) or higher

Nice to have

• Familiarity with data catalogs, metadata platforms, knowledge graphs, or data-discovery solutions
• Understanding of metadata management, ontologies, lineage, data contracts, and data governance
• Experience with Collibra or comparable governance platforms, and with AI/RAG applications that depend on metadata
• Background in regulated pharmaceutical or biomedical research environments
• Knowledge of biomedical, omics, clinical, or real-world data, or of ontologies and knowledge management