About the Job:
The Senior Technical Systems Analyst assists with forming and executing the product vision, with a focus on ensuring that FMI’s products meet the needs of our business partners and stakeholders. This position serves multiple high velocity project teams and be responsible for understanding both the business needs within a product area, as well as the applications in detail to facilitate building business requirements with business stakeholders and translating them into functional user stories and specifications for software development teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Document and refine system and functional requirements to meet business needs and corporate initiatives.
- Develop clear technical user stories aligned with business requirements, feedback, and project goals in an Agile environment.
- Participate in development activities, ensuring business requirements are implemented correctly.
- Maintain comprehensive requirements documentation and traceability throughout the software delivery life cycle.
- Serve as a liaison between the FMI business units, product, and engineering teams for requirements gathering.
- Facilitate requirement workshops and lead gathering efforts on processes, requirements, legacy systems, and application mapping. Partner with technical leads and developers to design effective and scalable solutions.
- Address technical queries, break down complex tasks, and collaborate on prioritizing and planning project initiatives.
- Work closely with technical product managers to track the product vision and strategy.
- Work cross functionally to create and manage sprint and quarterly plans.
- Provide guidance to external teams on product capabilities and roadmap.
- Collaborate with Business Stakeholders and the Delivery Manager establishing comprehensive User Acceptance Testing.
- Continuously refine and prioritize the engineering project team backlog based on the Centralized Product Roadmap
- Transform business requirements into clear functional specifications.
- Interface with the User Experience Team to translate requirements for UI/UX, template designs, and mocks.
- Develop and deliver training and education material for internal engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- Communicate with stakeholders, analyze key performance indicators, and propagating new feature requests to the Central Product Team.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Comply with FMI's attendance policies
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a life science, business, technology or a related discipline
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Analyst, Business Analyst, Technical Analyst, or Associate Product Manager in a software, scientific, or technical business environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years working in a life sciences environment and/or with software products developed for Quality or Clinical Laboratory processes
- Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
- Experience translating customer needs/feature requests into detailed technical specifications
- Professional experience in Agile information technology and/or software engineering
- Experience working in a software development environment that complies with International Electrotechnical Commission specification 62304, Food and Drug Administration Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 Part 11, and General Data Protection Regulation
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Balsamiq, LucidChart, Visio,
- Proven time management and organization skills. Demonstrated history of successfully meeting deadlines, prioritizing workload, and handling multiple competing complex projects simultaneously
- Strong listening, communication and interpersonal skills in verbal and writing form
- History of collaborating within cross-functional teams and building strong relationships across functional areas within an organization
- History of self-organizing, effective operations without significant day-to-day oversight
- Ability to perform careful, detail-oriented work under deadline pressure
- Agreement to maintain confidentiality regarding sensitive company, employee, and proprietary data and information
- Commitment to reflect FMI’s values: Integrity, Courage, and Passion
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Boston, MA is $128,240 - $160,300 per year. The salary range is commensurate with Foundation Medicine’s compensation practice and considers factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, external market conditions, criticality of role, and internal equity. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for Foundation Medicine's benefits.
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About UsSkills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in life science, business, technology, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Analyst, Business Analyst, Technical Analyst, or Associate Product Manager in a software, scientific, or technical business environment
- 1+ years working in a life sciences environment and/or with software products developed for Quality or Clinical Laboratory processes
- Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
- Experience translating customer needs or feature requests into detailed technical specifications
- Professional experience in Agile information technology and/or software engineering
- Experience with software development environments complying with IEC 62304, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, and GDPR
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Balsamiq, LucidChart, and Visio
- Proven time management and organization skills, including meeting deadlines and managing competing complex projects
- Strong verbal, written, listening, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Experience collaborating within cross-functional teams and building relationships across organizational functions
- Ability to self-organize and work effectively without significant day-to-day oversight
- Ability to perform careful, detail-oriented work under deadline pressure
- Agreement to maintain confidentiality regarding sensitive company, employee, and proprietary data
- Commitment to reflect the company’s values of Integrity, Courage, and Passion
Foundation Medicine Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Foundation Medicine and has not been reviewed or approved by Foundation Medicine.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses and long-term incentives are described as competitive and a meaningful component of total rewards. Annual bonuses tied to personal and company outcomes feature alongside base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical and dental coverage is a core element of the package. Health plans are positioned as robust and well-rounded rather than minimal.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings include flexible or unlimited PTO and paid parental leave, supporting work–life balance. Extra paid downtime has been referenced alongside standard PTO.
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What We Do
Foundation Medicine is a molecular information company dedicated to a transformation in cancer care in which treatment is informed by a deep understanding of the genomic changes that contribute to each patient's unique cancer. The company offers a full suite of comprehensive genomic profiling assays to identify the molecular alterations in a patient’s cancer and match them with relevant targeted therapies, immunotherapies and clinical trials. Foundation Medicine’s molecular information platform aims to improve day-to-day care for patients by serving the needs of clinicians, academic researchers and drug developers to help advance the science of molecular medicine in cancer. For more information, please visit us at www.FoundationMedicine.com or follow @FoundationATCG on Twitter. Community Guidelines: bit.ly/FMICommunityGuidelines
