IT business analyst in clinical trials

The Principal Business Analyst is a senior, high-impact role that sits at the crossroads of clinical science, product strategy, and technology delivery. While positioned as a Business Analyst, this role operates with the breadth, depth, and strategic influence of a seasoned analyst owning the vision, innovation pipeline, and feature delivery of the Study Designer, a flagship product enabling clinical trial teams to design smarter, faster, and more impactful studies.

• Act as the primary link between clinical/scientific teams and product engineering, building long-term relationships and facilitating discovery workshops with medical experts to deeply understand trial design and represent the clinical user's voice
• Define and own the feature roadmap by balancing business, scientific, and technical needs; foster innovation through design thinking sprints to identify new opportunities, create compelling business cases, and track feature success metrics/KPIs post-release
• Author precise, actionable user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria; partner with UX to create wireframes and prototypes, ruthlessly filter requests based on value, and maintain a living product specification traceable to user needs
• Act as a technical translator by converting complex clinical workflows into structured requirements, leveraging strong literacy in architecture, data modeling, and APIs to collaborate with engineers on technical risks, dependencies, and solutions
• Partner with architects, senior engineers, and QA leads throughout the development build cycle to ensure feature scalability and quality, while supporting UAT design and execution to meet scientific intent and usability standards
• Drive iterative delivery, rapid feedback, and hypothesis-driven development; own and groom a sprint-ready product backlog, lead all agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), and proactively resolve team impediments or misalignments
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clinical and scientific leadership, guiding them on how digital capabilities can reshape, optimize, and elevate the overall way clinical trials are designed

• Requires 10+ years of experience in product management, senior business analysis, or hybrid product leadership with complex digital products, plus 5+ years of hands-on experience in clinical trial design, clinical development, or closely related life sciences
• A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, Computer Science, or Information Systems is required; a Master's degree or PhD in a clinical/scientific/biomedical field is preferred, and Business Analysis certifications (e.g., CBAP) are highly valued
• Proven track record of managing the end-to-end product lifecycle from early discovery to live deployment and value measurement, backed by expert-level skill in writing structured user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specs, and traceability matrices
• Demonstrates a solid understanding of core software development concepts, including APIs, data models, microservices architecture, and cloud-based platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Offers extensive experience operating within agile/scrum frameworks, featuring hands-on ownership of backlog management and sprint execution while being highly proficient in tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Productboard
• Possesses the scientific fluency to engage in deep, credible protocol design and regulatory conversations with physicians and researchers, combined with systems thinking to see how individual features connect to broader clinical workflows and patient outcomes
• Proven ability to lead, build coalitions, and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority; thrives with an innovation-oriented mindset and exhibits comfort with ambiguity when priorities shift or problems are undefined

• At Roche, we offer a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with in-person collaboration. For now, we require our employees to be in our offices on average two days per week. The specific office days may vary depending on business needs, such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings, and other collaborative events.
• Salary range 19,000 - 35,400 PLN gross based on the employment contract
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.)
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available)
• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose)
• Vacation subsidy available
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time)
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice)
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport
• Stock share purchase additions
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!
• In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20% subject to both individual and company performance.
• This position also offers an attractive benefits package.