Job description
Technology – Life Science R&D / Agrochemical R&D
Location – Bracknell, UK
Business Unit – MFGDCG
Compensation – Competitive (including bonus)
Job Description
- Lead the IT business analysis activities for multiple life science R&D capabilities; ensuring that cross process opportunities are identified, understood, and leveraged
- Together with key stakeholders, you establish direction for IT solutions and related ways of working
- Ensure business needs are translated into epics and user stories and support the Product Owner to manage a product backlog that enables the incremental delivery of value to R&D through IT solutions
- Ensure that a healthy product backlog is created and maintained in order that priorities are clear and directly drive business needs & strategy
- Manage multiple product backlogs in the format of prioritized epics and user stories that meet INVEST criteria: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small and Testable
- Lead and drive the development of a digital future landscape across multiple R&D capabilities together with key stakeholders in those areas, ensuring business value is realized
- Ensure a joined-up view across stakeholders on data pipelines, products, microservices and APIs by working with key stakeholders and technical leads to develop data solutions
- Be an active member of the analyst community, contributing to setting best practice, peer review, mentoring and coaching
- Promote a culture of innovation and experimentation and be bold to identify opportunities to create breakthroughs
Required
- Degree or equivalent background in Life Science – related fields (Agrochemicals/Pharmacology/Pharmaceutics/Biotechnology/Chemistry/Drug Discovery etc.)
- Experience in life sciences R&D domain with respect to AI screening, formulations, and statistical data analysis
- Business analysis experience in developing and evolving data platforms in the cloud
- Good understanding of BDD & TDD (behavior driven development / Test driven development)
- Demonstrated ability to build consensus across diverse interest groups and manage a high level of complexity and uncertainty
- Demonstrated passion for user experience and value generation
- Agile delivery and steady state operations mindset (DevOps, SAFe, SRE)
- Good to have experience in Lab automation and Lab testing
- Fluency in English, additional languages beneficial
Personal
Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:
- High analytical skills
- A high degree of initiative and flexibility
- High customer orientation
- High quality awareness
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through the many next of their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
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