Senior Business Analyst

Roche; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 158,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Training budget

Recharge Fridays

Take time program

Vacation subsidy

Flex location

Take time for charity

Private healthcare

Group life insurance

Multisport

Stock purchase

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to drive end-to-end business analysis within the Digital Technology organization. You will collaborate with Product Owners, engineering, security, privacy, and legal to translate business needs into actionable AI-driven requirements and implementation plans.

You will lead workshops, define acceptance criteria, and mentor junior analysts while contributing to BA standards and best practices across Roche's enterprise AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Business Analysis, Technology Consulting, Product Analysis, or comparable experience.
• Fluency in English and ability to work with ambiguous requirements.
• Experience working in large enterprise environments and with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Business Analysis activities for complex initiatives.
• Elicit, analyze, prioritize, validate, document, and manage requirements.
• Define success measures and acceptance criteria for solutions.
• Translate business needs into AI-enabled solution requirements and roadmaps.
• Support platform rollout, onboarding, and user enablement initiatives.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to BA standards and practices.

Skills

Fluency in English

Agile product delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

IIBA certification (e.g. CCBA/CBAP)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Senior Business Analyst

Roche Digital Technology (RDT

We are a community of business-minded technologists committed to help shape tomorrow’s digital future of healthcare. Our mission is to power Roche through cutting-edge digital technologies, harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, data, and scalable tech innovations. Driven by purpose and passion, we’re building a future where digital is a core strength across all of Roche, enabling smarter ways of working, unlocking human potential, and driving breakthroughs that truly matter for millions of patients around the world.

At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will independently manage end-to-end business analysis workstreams, tackling complex business problems in an evolving technology environment. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of business domains, enterprise technologies, and their interdependencies, applying advanced Business Analysis tools and techniques to translate business needs into requirements, solution options, and implementation plans.

You will work closely with the Product Owner and Product Manager, as well as Engineering, Architecture, Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, UX, and business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and helping teams make informed decisions.

A key focus of this role is supporting enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI platforms and capabilities used across Roche, including commercial enterprise LLM platforms and an internally built AI assistant. You will be expected to understand key AI concepts, confidently discuss AI-related opportunities, limitations, risks, and requirements, and effectively bridge conversations between business and technical stakeholders.

The opportunity

The RDT Artificial Intelligence organization enables enterprise adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI capabilities across Roche. The team works across enterprise AI platforms, internal AI solutions, integrations, governance, adoption, and operational processes.

Job Responsibilities

• Business Analysis Leadership: Independently plan and manage end-to-end Business Analysis activities for complex, ambiguous initiatives - defining approach, scope, stakeholders, and deliverables, and analyzing business needs, root causes, capabilities, and risks to recommend high-value solution options
• Requirements Management: Elicit, analyze, prioritize, validate, document, and manage business, stakeholder, functional, non-functional, and transition requirements. Engage cross-functional stakeholders, facilitate workshops, and resolve conflicting needs to align teams around solution direction
• Solution Evaluation: Define success measures and acceptance criteria, validate proposed and delivered solutions against business needs, and use stakeholder feedback, usage insights, and other evidence to identify improvement opportunities
• AI Business Analysis: Translate business needs into actionable requirements for AI-enabled solutions, preparing them for prioritization by the Product Owner and Product Manager, and help stakeholders understand AI capabilities, limitations, risks, dependencies, and implementation considerations
• Adoption & Enablement: Support platform rollout and onboarding, and drive adoption through user-facing enablement - training sessions and office hours, user guides, FAQs, and internal communication campaigns in partnership with Communications and Change Management
• Platform Operations: Support licence and access management, track adoption, usage, and feedback, monitor vendor releases and assess their impact on Roche users and platform security
• Impact & Delivery: Support the Product Owner and Product Manager by providing the analysis, evidence, and requirements that inform product and solution roadmaps, prioritization decisions, implementation planning, governance processes, and continuous improvement initiatives
• BA Practice Development: Mentor junior and intermediate Business Analysts and contribute to Business Analysis standards, templates, methods, and Community of Practice activities

Who you are

Education / Experience

• 5+ years of Business Analysis, Technology Consulting, Product Analysis, or comparable experience
• Demonstrated ability to work with ambiguous requirements, structure complex problems, evaluate solution options, and translate business needs into actionable requirements and implementation plans
• Fluency in English
• Proactive mindset with a focus on initiating process improvements and contributing to organizational development, such as active involvement in the Community of Practice (CoP)
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and deadlines
• Experience working in large enterprise environments; life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or another regulated industry is an advantage
• IIBA certification (e.g. CCBA/CBAP) or equivalent recognized Business Analysis certification is an advantage
• Experience with UX or user-centred design practices such as user research, user journeys, usability testing, prototyping, or service design is an advantage.

Business Analysis And Technical Skills

• Advanced knowledge of Business Analysis concepts, practices, tools, and techniques across complex technology initiatives
• Strong proficiency in requirements elicitation and documentation, ensuring comprehensive requirements traceability and consistent change management
• Ability to facilitate workshops, structure complex discussions, challenge assumptions, resolve conflicts, and support evidence-based decisions.
• Experience working within Agile product delivery environments in close partnership with Product Owners and Product Managers, including backlog refinement, user story writing, and acceptance criteria definition, and with common delivery and collaboration tooling (e.g. Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow)
• Experience working across global and cross-functional organizations.

Domain Expertise

• Practical, hands-on fluency with Generative AI tools, and a good understanding of key Generative AI concepts, such as Large Language Models, prompting, context windows, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, model evaluation, and common AI limitations
• Professional experience working with AI solutions in an enterprise environment - for example in implementation, product development, platform rollout, integration, governance, adoption, or operations - is a strong advantage.
• Understanding of enterprise AI considerations including data privacy, security, responsible AI, governance, intellectual property and access management
• Comfortable discussing AI topics with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and translating between business requirements and technical capabilities.
• Good understanding of enterprise technology concepts such as SaaS platforms, integrations, APIs, identity and access management, and data flows.
• Familiarity with Low Code/No Code automation platforms to support process automation, workflow design, or rapid prototyping is an advantage
• Understanding of enterprise technology delivery, product lifecycle management, governance, security, privacy, and operational processes.

What you get

• Salary range 14,175-26,325 PLN gross based on the employment contract
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.)
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available)
• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose)
• Vacation subsidy available
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time)
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice)
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport
• Stock share purchase additions
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 170,100.00 PLN - 315,900.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 15% subject to both individual and company performance.

This position also offers an attractive benefits package.

Learn more about how we reward our employees at Roche.

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.