Senior Functional Analyst

About Eurofins

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agriscience Contract Research Organization services. Eurofins is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Title: Senior Functional Analyst

Reporting To: Senior Manager

Work Location: Bangalore

About Program:

With facilities in Europe, the United States and Asia, Eurofins Genomics is an internationally leading provider of DNA sequencing services, genotyping services, DNA synthesis products and bioinformatics services for pharma, diagnostics, food, agriculture, biotechnological and research markets.

Genomics business is enabled by global engineering teams working on next-generation applications and Laboratory information management systems (LIMS). As a Functional Analyst, you will leverage your extensive functional expertise to design and develop e-Commerce solutions for B2B and B2C portal. These are sophisticated computer programs that will be used by our Academica and Industrial clients. The product you design, build, and deliver is strategic to the success of Genomics business line.

Working closely with diverse stakeholders, you will deliver a product that exceeds expectations and drives innovation. You will be empowered to influence and drive key functional decisions and with your leadership skills, navigate the complex Eurofins network of Subject Matter Experts. We are looking for self-driven leader who will interface with the business stakeholder and development teams drive the functional roadmap for the product and translate the business requirements to functional requirements for the development team

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role as Sr. Functional Analyst, you will be responsible to clearly understand the Business/Functional requirements of the solution and document it as User Requirements or User stories to the Development team. The objective will be to create and groom user stories and work as a liaison between the Business Process Owner and the development team acting as Product Owner for the scrum team.

Specific Assignments:

• Work closely with the Business Process Owners and in understanding the business goals and objectives and the requirements of the proposed solution.  Create Business Process Models.
• Assist the Business Process Owner in managing the web content and documenting information gathered from multiple sources, highlight conflicting functional/non-functional requirements.
• Convert the requirement discussions into functional requirements document/User stories that is easy to read and understand. The documentation should be in accordance with agile best practice.
• Create UX mockups to compliment and support requirement documents.
• Ensure that the Functional and non-functional requirements are clearly articulated and segregated.
• Serve as the liaison between the Business and development team. The role is expected to work working in the same time zone as the development team.
• Participate in development discussions to ascertain if the requirements are clearly understood, document conflicts, and revising the functional specifications after resolving the conflicts based on the discussion with the Business Process Owner.
• Work in a highly agile environment to create, groom and prioritize the user stories.
• Participate in functional testing and the sprint demos.
• With primary stakeholders in US and EU region, expect to work in the late evenings to have overlap with efficient operations.
• Improve efficiency of the overall development process from start to finish by recognizing process improvement opportunities, systematic issues, and organizational obstacles. Then execute action plans to increase the output of the development team.
• Ability to work independently to a large degree to dive deep into legacy systems, current systems, and the IT infrastructure landscape to make more knowledgeable decision.

Skills required:

• Extensive experience in working with people and stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in developing products and applications for eCOM platform
• Strong experience with functional designs and tools for user journeys
• Strong experience in an Agile development environment and tools
• Strong leadership to influence and drive diverse stakeholders.
• Passionate about software development with very good communication skills
• Good business understanding in order to facilitate discussions from Leadership to Business users
• Experience designing web-based application.
• Experience in building wireframes/Mock-up is desired.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or master’s in engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in IT Application/Software Development as Business/Functional Analyst
• Experience in .NET
• Experience in Umbraco
• Experience of at least 1 enterprise application from concept to delivery
• Working experience with Product development organizations of Pedigree 

Tech Stack:

• Design tools like Adobe, Bizagi; CMS tools like Strapi, Umbraco; Excel, Azure DevOps, Visio,