About This Role:
We are seeking a Technical Business Analyst, Data & Advanced Analytics to serve as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams in a biopharma environment. This role focuses on translating complex business problems into well-defined analytical use cases, data requirements, and technical specifications, while maintaining a strong hands-on understanding of the Databricks Lakehouse and advanced analytics solutions.
What You’ll Do:
1) Business Analysis & Problem Framing
Partner with business stakeholders in Commercial to understand objectives, pain points, and decision needs.
Translate business questions into clearly defined analytics use cases, success metrics, and measurable outcomes.
Lead requirements discovery, documentation, and validation, including functional, non‑functional, and data requirements.
2) Analytics & Data Translation
Define data requirements, KPIs, metrics definitions, and calculation logic to ensure consistent and trusted insights.
Collaborate with technical teams to shape data models, curated datasets, and semantic layers aligned to business needs.
Review and validate analytics outputs (datasets, ML models) to ensure they meet business intent and quality expectations.
3) Databricks Platform & Technical Collaboration
Act as a knowledgeable partner to engineering teams working on Databricks (Spark/SQL/Python), with the ability to:
Read and validate SQL and logic used in transformations
Understand data pipeline dependencies and data flows
Participate meaningfully in design discussions and trade‑off decisions
Support use cases involving advanced analytics such as decision engine, adoption journey, segmentation, or ML‑enabled insights, without being the primary model developer.
4) Delivery Ownership & Stakeholder Communication
Own the end‑to‑end analytics delivery lifecycle from a BA perspective: intake → requirements → refinement → validation → adoption.
Facilitate working sessions, backlog refinement, and prioritization discussions with cross‑functional teams.
Communicate complex analytical concepts and results in clear, business‑friendly language for non‑technical audiences.
Who You Are:
You are a technically fluent Business Analyst who bridges business needs and analytics delivery. You translate complex problems into clear data and analytics requirements, partner closely with engineering and data science teams, and ensure insights are trusted, actionable, and decision‑ready in a regulated biopharma environment.
Required Skills:
Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in a related role.
Experience working in the Biopharma industry.
Strong experience working with enterprise data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent), with hands‑on exposure to SQL and analytics logic.
Proven ability to translate business needs into data and analytics requirements.
Exposure to advanced analytics or ML use cases.
Hands‑on experience querying or validating data using SQL and/or Databricks notebooks.
Strong understanding and experience working with specialty pharmacy data (i.e., dispense, status, etc.), syndicated data (i.e., Claims, Rx), Marketing/digital data sets and Master Data Management data sets.
Preferred Skills:
Experience with 360-degree data initiatives (e.g., HCP 360, Patient 360, Next Best Action, Patient Journey) that support advanced analytics.
Experience working in Agile / SAFe delivery models.
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Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
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Biogen Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Office
225 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA, United States, 02142
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