Bioinformatics Business Analyst

Location: Remote; role located in Atlanta, GA, USA, and requires US citizenship

Company

hirify.global provides strategic consulting, program management, and data-driven analytics to federal public health agencies.

What you will do

• Gather, analyze, and document business, scientific, operational, and technical requirements for bioinformatics platforms and tools.
• Develop use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional and non-functional requirements.
• Partner with product managers, architects, and technical leads to define platform capabilities, prioritize enhancements, and develop strategic roadmaps.
• Coordinate bioinformatics, data science, engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams, including dependency and delivery management.
• Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, and PI planning.
• Support governance, KPI and success-metric definition, demonstrations, stakeholder briefings, feedback sessions, and platform adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience analyzing bioinformatics workflows, data types, and analytical use cases such as genomics, sequencing data, pipelines, or surveillance analytics.
• Knowledge of bioinformatics, life sciences, public health data platforms, or analytical tools.
• Knowledge of application-development technologies including SQL, NoSQL databases, or web-based interactive user interfaces.
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe delivery environments.
• Ability to lead client and stakeholder discussions, elicit requirements, document them clearly, and translate them into implementation steps.
• Must be a US citizen and able to obtain a US Government Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination, including Public Trust 5, within a reasonable period.

Nice to have

• Experience in public health, life sciences, or research-focused environments.
• Experience with systems development lifecycles and modern data platform architecture.
• Experience translating scientific or technical requirements into user stories, use cases, and platform features.
• Experience modeling business processes and requirements with structured tools, use-case scenarios, and data and system architectural models.
• Knowledge of big data, analytics, bioinformatics platforms, cloud-based systems, and data platforms.
• Master's degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, or a related field.
• Agile or SAFe certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote position supporting federal public health initiatives.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, and holidays.
• 401(k) with company matching.
• Growth and promotion opportunities.
• Market-competitive salary commensurate with experience and education.

Hiring process

• Interview responses must be based on the candidate's own knowledge, skills, and experience; AI tools and third-party resources may not be used to generate or assist interview responses.
• Use of AI-assisted interview responses may result in disqualification.