Ad Astra Consultants Hiring! Full Time Product Analyst in - Ricebowl

Are you passionate about working with a dynamic team in a fast-paced, exciting, and highly collaborative environment passionate about delivering class-defining engineering innovations worldwide? Are you highly motivated and striving to make an impact? We invite you to learn more about our APAC Product Engineering Team at the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies! Our products touch the lives of millions of patients every year and you can be part of a growing organization that is passionate about providing exciting opportunities for employees to grow their knowledge, skills, and experiences to help ensure continued career growth and development. Our investment in people, technology, and innovation makes us one of the best places to work, within one of the most admired corporations in the world.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Technical Product Analyst to join our cross-sector product engineering team. This hands-on role requires a candidate who is comfortable working in a matrix organization and collaborating with offshore vendors. In addition to bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions; this role will assist the Technical Product Owner, ensuring best practices and standards are maintained across projects.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership, Mentorship, and Continuous Improvement:

• Lead the Technical Product/Business Analyst chapter, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.
• Mentor and guide junior product/business analysts, providing training and development opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and contribute to the development and implementation of best practices within the team.
• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in Agile methodologies and enterprise software development.

Technical Engagement, Requirements Management, and Solution Design:

• Engage directly with development teams to understand technical constraints and opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Translate business needs into detailed technical specifications and user stories.
• Work closely with developers, architects, and quality assurance teams to design and validate solutions that meet business needs.
• Conduct feasibility studies and impact analyses to support decision-making processes.
• Provide technical expertise during the design and implementation phases of projects.
• Ensure technical solutions align with business requirements and organizational standards.
• Assess Salesforce application capabilities by extracting and analyzing metadata, understanding the underlying data model, and producing fit-gap analysis reports comparing the as-is and to-be structures.

Matrix Collaboration and Vendor Management:

• Navigate and manage relationships within a matrix organization, ensuring effective communication and collaboration across departments.
• Coordinate with offshore vendors, managing deliverables and ensuring alignment with project goals and timelines.
• Must be available for occasional after-hours calls and support as needed.

Documentation and Communication:

• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including functional specifications, process flows, and user guides.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders and senior management to communicate project progress and outcomes.

Preferred Experiences

• Minimum of 6 years of experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment, preferably within enterprise product engineering.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex technical projects.
• Project experience working with Salesforce applications, including understanding Salesforce metadata, configuration, and data model concepts.
• Hands-on ability to extract Salesforce metadata from the application, analyze data structures, and document findings in a clear, actionable manner.
• Ability to prepare fit-gap analysis reports comparing current-state Salesforce application/data structures against target-state business and technical requirements.
• Experience in a leadership or mentorship role.
• Hands-on technical experience in software development processes and tools.
• Prior experience working as a developer / tester.
• Experience working in a matrix organization and collaborating with offshore vendors.
• High attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
• Proficiency in requirements gathering, business process modeling, and technical documentation.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Technical proficiency in software development processes and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, C4 model).
• Knowledge and experience in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with Gherkin.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize complex information and present it clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills and high attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise software solutions and cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with Salesforce Health Cloud and/or Life Sciences Cloud is preferred.
• Certifications such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) preferred.
• Knowledge of database management, data analysis, and reporting tools.
• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical or MedTech industry.