Sr. Business Analyst

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position Senior Business Analyst (BA) works out of our Charlottesville, VA office. This role is within our Informatics Business unit in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics . We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

What You’ll Work On

The Sr. BA plays a critical role on the Agile Development Team acting in a dual role as Business Analyst and Scrum Master. The person hired in this role will be actively engaged with the Team by representing; advocating and shepherding the many customer voices; ensuring that the products we deliver meet the diverse and competing needs of our customers (internal and external); understanding and identifying opportunities, flows and issues with discussions and interactions within the entire project team.

They will also be responsible for facilitating discussions between Product Owner, Stakeholders, and the Development Team to ensure the full scope of requirements has been defined and balanced with an overall technical understanding of the solution. In addition, this role will require excellent communication and facilitation skills and the ability to work interdependently with the team and effectively challenge the status quo to reach successful business outcomes.

As the Sr. Business Analyst:

• Define and document software requirements

• Gather product feedback from internal stakeholders and external customers

• Produce elements of systems design, including data migration rules, business rules, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, or other detailed deliverables

• Facilitates and participates in risk analysis, including failure mode and effects analysis

• Author design transfer documentation to be consumed by internal and external customers

• Contributes to the improvement and maintenance of the Quality Management System with focus on requirements in the design and development process

• Mentors and trains junior business analysts

As the ScrumMaster part of the role:

• Guide and coach cross-functional teams to excellence

• Facilitate team meetings and scrum ceremonies

• Protect the team from distractions and interruptions

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with five years of related experience or Associates Degree with six or more equivalent years of related experience or high school diploma with eight or more equivalent years of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ Year of Agile experience

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

• Experience using Agile Tools to manage backlog and track iterations

• Technical writing

• Strong communication, both written and verbal

• Strong attention to detail

• Able to think strategically and independently

• Demonstrated ability to drive a team towards deadlines

• Demonstrated people management experience; ability to coach, mentor, and grow junior talent

• Software Environment Preferred

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 – $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.