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Location: South San Francisco, CA
Onsite: 3 days per week depending on when the scientists are in the office
Interview Process: 1 and done
Job Description We are looking for an experienced, senior consultant for our client's Research & Early Development (gRED)'s Research Pathology informatics landscape. The analyst will be part of a digital program that will redesign the Pathology application landscape. The consultant will work in close collaboration with the Lead Business Analyst, the Technology Lead, and a team of technical business analysts, to understand, document, and translate user needs to actionable system specifications.
Responsibilities

  • Conduct user interviews, create epics, and draft user stories for research histology/pathology use cases relating to sample processing and analysis requests, processing fulfillment workflows, sample/laboratory information management
  • Provide specifications on process flows, data structures, and other requirements outcomes
  • Establish acceptance criteria for pathology user stories
  • Maintain requirements documentation, and ensure requirements coverage
  • Match collected requirements to the overall landscape vision, understand overlaps and gaps
  • Support requirements prioritization, and detect needs for similar capabilities in requirements coming from different stakeholders

Experience

  • Significant domain experience in histology, pathology, sample management, wet lab processes. Digital pathology experience is a plus
  • Expert knowledge in specifying and employing current laboratory information management systems, and sample inventory management
  • Experience deriving scientific data structures from requirements
  • Track record of successful project implementations for configurable, extensible, off-the-shelf LIMS in pathology environments
  • Experience with Agilent SLIMS preferred
  • Excellent engaging, supportive, clear verbal communication skills, as well as clean, precise, and consistent written English language skills are critical.
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