Business Analyst

Local San Francisco Bay Area candidates only!Direct W2 employees only! No 3rd party agencies!The growing gRED IT Lab Engineering, Automation & Productivity (LEAP) group supports the IT needs of Genentech's Research and Early Development (gRED) laboratories. LEAP seeks an inspirational and talented business analyst to translate business strategy into technology enabled solutions for groups across the gRED organization. Your responsibilities will include working across a diverse team of lab scientists and IT professionals to analyze and design business processes, elicit and manage requirements involving key business stakeholders, design user-centered systems, and document software solutions for lab operations. You will join a growing LEAP team with a variety of skills and experiences in both technology and life sciences. Together you will have the opportunity to shape and build a modern R&D environment that propels Genentech's drug development ambitions. Genentech provides an exceptional research environment composed of internationally recognized leaders, state of the art core facilities with cutting edge technologies, and a drive for innovation. We foster a highly inclusive and collaborative community, and as such, you will interact closely with leading scientists, talented IT professionals and others, all working together to deliver life saving therapies to patients. Provides business analysis for various LEAP and business processes, focusing on IT knowledge management for labs Creates required project documentation such as user requirements, epics/users stories, functional specs, and risk, communication, stakeholder & change management, testing, deployment, and support plans Support gRED IT partnering efforts with labs to support key sciences and technologies by resolving ad-hoc inquiries via efficient collaboration with stakeholders or hand-offs to relevant support teams Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities for streamlining team and business processes Create and review training materials, assisting in training where necessary Assist with the coordination of Security Risk Assessments for new gRED initiatives Skills required:5 years plus experience as Business AnalystKnowledge of scientific applications and technologies A focus on solution delivery, with excellent time management and organizational skillsExcellent interpersonal skills with your own team, technical IT partners, and customers Communicate effectively in both written and verbal form to non-technical audiencesExperience with knowledge management software (i.e. Confluence)Experience with issue tracking software (i.e. Trello, JIRA) Communicate effectively in both written and verbal form to non-technical audiences