Business Analyst

Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within a life sciences, pharmaceutical, or scientific R&D environment.
• Familiarity with laboratory instruments and equipment data; exposure to plate readers, Raman spectroscopy, cell counters, or similar analytical instruments is highly desirable.
• Strong track record in data mapping, business analysis, and requirements documentation practices.
• Ability to interpret raw scientific/instrument data outputs and translate them into structured business logic.
• Experience working with data governance, data quality, or data architecture teams in a large enterprise setting.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with comfort engaging both scientific/technical SMEs and senior business/data stakeholders.
• Excellent documentation skills, including data dictionaries, business glossaries, process/data flow diagrams, and mapping specifications.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) for Agile delivery, including backlog management, user stories, and sprint tracking.
• Understanding of pharma R&D processes, such as experimental workflows and lab data lifecycle, is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse raw instrument and equipment data to understand data structure, format, and business meaning.
• Perform business analysis and requirements gathering with scientists, lab operations teams, and data engineering/architecture teams to define how instrument data should be interpreted, structured, and used.
• Create and maintain data mapping documentation, mapping raw instrument outputs to standardised business/data models, taxonomies, or ontologies used across R&D.
• Document business rules, transformation logic, and data lineage from instrument source to downstream systems such as data lakes and analytics platforms.
• Collaborate with data architects, data engineers, and scientists to ensure business context is accurately reflected in technical data models.
• Identify data quality issues, gaps, or inconsistencies in instrument data and work with stakeholders to define resolution approaches.
• Support the creation of process flows, data dictionaries, and business glossaries specific to instrument/equipment data domains.
• Translate complex scientific/instrument outputs into clear business requirements and user stories for technical delivery teams, managed and tracked via Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Engage with cross-functional stakeholders, including lab scientists, informatics teams, data governance, and IT, to ensure alignment between scientific intent and data/business outcomes.
• Support UAT and validation of data mappings and business rules against real instrument data.

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Flow
• Support
• Network

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We are Tech Mahindra, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company serving enterprises across industries with consulting, IT, enterprise applications, business process services, engineering services, network services, customer experience and design, AI and analytics, and cloud and infrastructure services. We have 149,000+ professionals across 90+ countries supporting 1,100+ clients, and we are part of the Mahindra Group. This is a Business Analyst role based in Stevenage, UK, working three days per week from the client office, supporting a large-scale R&D data engagement with a leading global pharmaceutical company. The salary is 60,000 GBP per annum, and visa sponsorship is not available. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce.

last updated 33 week of 2026