R&D Senior Business Analyst

LIFE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading scientific technology company in Singapore is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst responsible for preparing product requirements and improving user experience for software products. The successful candidate will have over 8 years of industry experience as a business analyst, proficiency in Agile methodologies, and strong communication skills. The role offers opportunities for collaboration with cross-functional teams in an innovative environment focused on impactful scientific solutions.

Qualifications

• Over 8 years of experience in systems/business analyst roles.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies.
• Experience with life sciences and genomics industries is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Prepare technical requirements and functional specifications.
• Facilitate requirements workshops and manage requirements.
• Collaborate with UX engineers for user interface design.

Skills

Software development best practices (Agile, SCRUM)

Business analysis tools (Jira, Miro, Visio)

Communication and presentation skills

User interface design knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Miro Board

Visio

Job description

Overview

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Role Summary

The Sr. Business Analyst will prepare product requirements and specifications, participate in software hazard analysis activities, contribute to user interface design, and improve the user experience of our software products. The role will conduct requirements workshops with team members and meet with key partners to capture and detail measurable, testable, and traceable requirements and specifications.

Responsibilities

• Prepare well‑written technical requirements, functional specifications, and diagrams for software and life sciences instrument systems, detailing workflows and error‑handling scenarios.
• Apply standard process methodologies in developing and maintaining requirements, including user stories, use cases, functional requirements, non‑functional and performance requirements, and business rules.>
• Facilitate requirements workshops with cross‑functional science, engineering, and product management teams to elicit and review technical requirements and risk controls for new and sustaining software products.
• Manage requirements, prepare analysis models and diagrams, and generate reports using tools such as JAMA, JIRA, HPALM, Visio and Miro.
• Collaborate with the test team to ensure requirements and specifications are concise, accurate, measurable, and testable.
• Establish traceability between customer requirements, product requirements, and specifications; prepare trace matrix reports.
• Participate in customer research and interview activities to elicit user needs for product development.
• Contribute to user interface design and usability testing activities to provide a seamless user experience in navigating complex scientific laboratory workflows.
• Collaborate with UX engineers and UI designers to prepare mockups and prototype user interfaces that meet customer needs.
• Prepare and contribute to design compliance documentation and best‑practice disciplines across all aspects of software development within the SDLC.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with software development best practices, such as Agile or SCRUM.
• 8+ years of industry experience in a systems/business analyst role.
• Proficient in the use of business analysis tools and techniques (e.g., Jira, Miro Board, Visio).
• Understanding of computer systems, networking of Windows and Linux–based systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Comfortable working as part of a distributed, global, and cross‑functional team.
• Prepared to work to aggressive timelines in an iterative software development environment.

Highly Preferred

• Experience in Life Sciences and genomics industries and/or DNA technology.
• Certification in Business Analysis (e.g., Certified Product Owner, Certified Scrum Master).