Bioinformatics Business Analyst

Metas Solutions excels in providing strategic consulting, program management, and data-driven analytics to federal public health agencies. Our expertise enhances health systems and delivers measurable outcomes, helping agencies achieve their mission. We collaborate with federal partners to implement agile solutions for national public health initiatives, driving impactful changes through cutting-edge programs that strengthen communities and promote well-being. See www.metassolutions.com for further details about us and careers with Metas.

Job Description:

Metas Solutions has an "immediate opening" for a talented Bioinformatics Business Analyst. In this Remote position, you will support the strategy, evolution, and adoption of enterprise bioinformatics platforms, analytical tools, and data solutions supporting public health initiatives. This role serves as a liaison between scientific stakeholders, product teams, and technical teams, translating bioinformatics and public health requirements into actionable product features, platform capabilities, and implementation plans within an Agile delivery environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with scientists, public health stakeholders, and technical teams to elicit, analyze, and document business, scientific, operational, and technical requirements for bioinformatics platforms and tools.
• Develop and maintain use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements that support bioinformatics and data platform initiatives.
• Partners with product managers, architects, and technical leads to define, prioritize, and refine platform capabilities, enhancements, and strategic roadmaps.
• Coordinate activities across bioinformatics, data science, engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment, dependency management, and successful solution delivery.
• Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Program Increment (PI) planning while tracking requirements, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.
• Assist with governance activities, KPI and success metric definition, product demonstrations, stakeholder briefings, and user feedback sessions to promote platform adoption and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience analyzing bioinformatics workflows, data types, and analytical use cases such as genomics, sequencing data, pipelines, or surveillance analytics
• Knowledge of common bioinformatics, life sciences, public health data platforms or analytical tools
• Knowledge of front-end or back-end technologies used for application development, including SQL, NoSQL databases, or web-based interactive user interfaces
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe delivery environments
• Ability to lead client and stakeholder discussions, ask the right questions, document clear requirements, and translate them into actionable implementation steps
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience working in a public health, life sciences, or research-focused environment
• Experience with the systems development lifecycles and modern data platform architecture
• Experience with business analysis processes, including translating scientific or technical requirements into user stories, use cases, and platform features
• Experience modeling business processes and requirements, using structured tools and techniques, including use-case scenarios, and integrating them with data and system architectural models and requirements
• Knowledge of big data, analytics, or bioinformatics platforms in a cloud environment
• Knowledge of cloud-based systems and data platforms
• Master's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, or a related field
• Agile or SAFe Certification

Security Requirements:

• Must be US Citizen and with the ability to obtain a US Government security clearance (Public Trust 5) within a reasonable period
• Market competitive salary, commensurate with experience and education
• Comprehensive benefits package available, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), 401K with company match, growth, and promotion opportunities

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