Senior Business Analyst, Discovery IT

Wave Life Sciences • Cambridge, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Wave Life Sciences USA seeks a highly motivated Discovery IT Business partner to join our Information Technology team in Cambridge and Lexington Massachusetts. This role partners with all areas of Discovery to drive new technology & automation solutions, expand current Discovery Informatics capabilities and ensure operational excellence. This individual will participate in an agile based, team-oriented, fast-paced, and cross-disciplinary biotech/IT environment. This role is a great opportunity at the intersection of Discovery, Data Science, and IT to contribute to building a vision for the Wave lab of the future. This position will report to the Senior Director, Discovery IT and will be a key member of the IT operations team, DS/IT steering committee and various SONAR (Wave’s Discovery Informatics Platform) teams.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degrees in Information Management/Technology, Computer Science required.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical/Biotech companies; 5 years’ experience working in Discovery required.
• Minimum 5-8 years’ experience as an IT business analyst or R&D product specialist required.
• Experience with Discovery systems including eLNB, compound registration, pipeline tools, inventory management and lab automation required.
• Experience leading projects and/or Discovery business teams required.
• Working knowledge of FDA, EMA regulations such as Annex 11, 21 CFR Part 11, Part 210, 211; Computer Systems Validation and GAMP framework required.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degrees and/or Discovery Science degrees (Chemistry, Biology) highly preferred.
• Prior experience with cloud-based technologies, AWS preferred; experience with analytics and pipelining technologies preferred.
• Prior IT experience in Pharma/Biotech lab and/or manufacturing would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• IT Business Partner for Biology, Data Sciences, Lab Systems, Medicinal Chemistry, Translational, Research Pharmacology, Process Development Preclinical and Process Engineering.
• Product owner for critical lab informatics systems (Dotmatics, CLIMB, Lab Voice) managing the full lifecycle from initial requirements gathering through production deployment, operations, updates, minor and major upgrades and retirement.
• Lead new Discovery technology projects including lab automation, SDMS, robotics, non-clinical/tox/biology data lakes.
• Partner with Sr Directors of GXP and Discovery on LIMS program.
• Lead change management efforts for major platform upgrades and new technology rollouts within Discovery, including communication planning, user enablement, and stakeholder alignment.
• Facilitate training sessions, knowledge sharing, and onboarding workshops to increase user adoption and maximize ROI on new Discovery IT investments.
• Oversee technology support activities for key research systems.
• Ensure Tier 1 through 3 ticket management and execution managing MSP support teams.
• As the IT Business Partner for Discovery, create stories for eLNB or business process-based data (reagent, inventory, laboratory) capture and management by gathering requirements and interactions with Wave Discovery Business Users.
• Work with the SONAR Product Manager to prioritize stories and SONAR development team to clarify the technical vision of stories for the ultimate delivery of product to the User.
• Partners with Scrum and Kanban teams to coordinate roadmap development, initiatives and continuous system improvements.
• Issue monthly compliance, progress, and operational reports; ensure follow up and escalation as appropriate.
• Lead or co-lead cross-functional Discovery/IT initiatives such as scientific workflow digitization, FAIR data implementation, or research capacity scaling.
• Maintain awareness of state-of-the-art Discovery Informatics activities, industry trends, problem solving techniques and computing practices.
• Coordinate software upgrades with key vendors and managed service partners
• Identify opportunities for Wave to further leverage data to improve its economic, competitive, and operational positioning.
• Establish controls for ensuring efficient and effective data gathering from our scientific experiments and assays.
• Advocate for and champion a data-driven culture, supporting related competencies and data literacy across IT and Wave.

Benefits

• company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, life, long and short-term disability insurances
• generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter)
• 401K participation with matching contributions
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior