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

EPAM Systems; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. seeks a Lead/Senior Business Analyst to drive end-to-end delivery for a Biomedical Data Catalogue and Unified Ontology project. You will bridge scientific needs with technical implementation across the product lifecycle.

The role requires 7–15 years in IT, strong requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, and experience with data governance, ontologies, and metadata management. Collaboration with Product, UX/UI, and QA teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 7–15 years of IT experience with 7+ years as a Business Analyst in software, data, or digital product delivery.
• Agile delivery experience (Scrum/Kanban) with hands-on Jira/Confluence.
• Proven ability to elicit and document BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
• Expertise in requirement gathering and stakeholder management across cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills and excellent English communication.
• English proficiency at Upper-Intermediate level (B2) or higher.
• Familiarity with data catalogs, metadata platforms, knowledge graphs, or data-discovery solutions.
• Understanding of metadata management, ontologies, lineage, data contracts, and governance.
• Experience with Collibra or comparable governance platforms and AI/RAG apps that depend on metadata.
• Background in regulated pharmaceutical or biomedical research environments.
• Knowledge of biomedical, omics, clinical, or real-world data, or ontologies and knowledge-management.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

User stories & acceptance criteria

Data governance understanding

Ontologies & knowledge graphs

Biomedical/Pharma domain knowledge

Metadata management

Analytical thinking

English proficiency (B2+)

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