IT Business Analyst

Agility, strategy, and innovation are paramount in our fast-paced business environment. As technology and practices progress at unprecedented rates, organizations increasingly realize the necessity of centralized hubs dedicated to

effectively harnessing these advancements. This is where the AstraZeneca Architecture Center of Enablement (ACoE) becomes crucial.

As a member of AstraZeneca’s Architecture Center of Enablement, you will be responsible for elaborating, supporting, and maintaining internal enterprise architecture and IT processes and standards. These are imbued with best practices and quality checks and facilitate self-service and efficient automated deployments across the organization.

As a Business Analyst in AstraZeneca’s Architecture Centre of Enablement (‘ACoE’), you will contribute significantly to the creation, development, and governance of a CoE within the organization, from a business and process perspective. The CoE will serve as the central hub for best practices, standards, and reusable assets across technology and business units, enabling accelerated innovation, improved alignment between IT and business strategies, and consistent delivery of digital transformation initiatives, thereby playing a crucial role in our digital transformation journey.

As a Business Analyst, you will be an integral part of our team, working closely with key stakeholders, including IT leadership, business leaders, development teams, and project managers. Your role will be to drive consistency, streamline

decision-making, and foster a culture of innovation, demonstrating the importance of strong interpersonal skills and team spirit in this role.

The Business Analyst will share best practices in relevant communities of practice, contributing to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design.

Typical Accountabilities

The Business Analyst is expected to perform at Advanced level in the following:

· Business Needs Identification - Operates at a functional level in assessing and defining business need and areas for improvement. Proactively seeks out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals. Actively

monitors and identifies capability gaps and proposes potential solutions through research internally and externally.

· Business Analysis Planning - Selects the appropriate analysis approach to a piece of work depending on its complexity, level of risk, known assumptions, constraints and dependencies. Proficient in scoping and recommending appropriate approaches. Capable of planning and managing their own and other team member’s activities to meet deliverables and deadlines. Accountable for performance and quality of analytical work delivered, both their own and the work of others.

· Stakeholder Analysis & Change - Effectively identifies stakeholders from all areas of the business, and actively builds and maintains relationships according to individual stakeholder needs and levels of influence. Contributes to

communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.

· Requirements Analysis and Design Definition - Responsible and accountable for requirements management plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID and scope impacts. Highly responsive to changing business priorities with ability to plan ahead, accounting for potential changes and corrective actions. Advanced requirements elicitation and management skill-set; including traceability, testing and validation. Leads the work with the business to identify functional and technical requirements, translating the requirements into design specifications reflecting Functional Design, User Interface Design and Business Process Design. Closely partnering with the Architecture team, ensuring the technical solution will deliver the agreed business benefits.

· Business Case Definition - Shapes and defines the business case, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realization.

· Solution Evaluation - Highly proficient in analyzing and assessing solution proposals and able to articulate supporting

reasoning. i.e. assessing business readiness, maximizing value vs. spend.

Work collaboratively with:

1. Business Stakeholders to ensure that solutions fulfil their future strategic needs and challenges

2. Business Relationship Managers to develop and maintain the business relationship, support business process change and act as point of contact for application development

3. Business customers to identify business requirements and effectively communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands

4. Process owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability and competitiveness

5. IT Architecture, Delivery and Support to ensure clear understanding of requirements and effective testing so that the solutions delivered to the business are efficient and effective, meeting the customer experience expectations. Work collaboratively with or take responsibility for:

6. Test Lead to define the testing approach and the components of testing to ensure traceability of requirements and effectiveness of overall solution.

7. Change Management/Communication Lead to ensure the Change Management and Communications plans and delivery support the Stakeholder Analysis.

Education, Qualifications, and Experience

Essential

• Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Proven experience of working with complex integrate systems, using creative and strategic thinking to deliver exceptional results
• Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
• Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape andndevelop innovative solutions
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others
• Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors

Desirable

· Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice

· Lean SIGMA training

· Practical usage of Agile Methodology

· Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context

· Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge

· Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

So, what’s next!

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Where can I find out more?

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AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer.

AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. AstraZeneca only employs individuals with the right to work in the country/ies where the role is advertised.

📌Strong English communication skills required.

📌 Positions are open to Mexican Citizens and official residents of Mexico.

📍 Location: Guadalajara (hybrid - Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week)
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.