IT Senior Business Analyst

Posted date Jul. 31, 2026 Contract type Full time Job ID R-257487 Why choose AstraZeneca India? Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare. The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports. Who do we look for? Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges. Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day. Success Profile Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for. Tech innovators Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives. Ownership takers If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it. Challenge seekers Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks. Proactive collaborators Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best. Responsibilities Job ID R-257487 Date posted 07/31/2026 Introduction to role: Are you ready to turn complex business needs into clear, result technology outcomes that help bring vital medicines to patients faster? Do you flourish with translating ambiguity into critical action while partnering across business and IT to unlock measurable value? In this role, you will be a central connector between diverse partners and technical groups, crafting the requirements that drive high-impact solutions across our global enterprise. You will help set analysis approaches, ensure traceability from ideas to benefits, and influence decisions that modernize how we operate. Your work will power smarter ways of working today while laying the foundations for tomorrow’s growth. Accountabilities: Analysis Strategy and Planning: Define the right analysis approach for each initiative, balancing complexity, risk, and dependencies. Scope work optimally and lead your plan to deliver to deadlines without losing sight of value. Stakeholder Engagement and Influence: Identify and engage collaborators at all levels. Build trust-based relationships, tailor communication to influence outcomes, and chip in to plans that drive informed decisions and adoption. Requirements Leadership: Lead end-to-end requirements management from discovery to validation. Translate business objectives into clear functional and technical requirements, ensuring robust traceability and alignment with Functional Build, User Interface Compose, and Business Process Develop. Architecture Partnership: Work closely with architecture and engineering teams to assure that the proposed technical solution delivers the agreed business benefits, adheres to standards, and scales for future needs. Solution Assessment and Value Focus: Evaluate solution options, challenge assumptions, and articulate the reasoning behind recommendations. Assess business readiness and guide teams to improve value versus spend. Business Case and Benefits Realization: Support the creation of cases, collecting justification including return on investment and benefits measures. Track value realization through delivery and into operation. Apply AI-assisted techniques to speed up discovery and documentation. Use LLMs to coordinate and prioritize ambiguous inputs and identify business rules from interviews. Improve the consistency and completeness of documentation related to requirements. Change and Communications: Chip in to change plans and communication strategies to ensure alignment, understanding, and adoption across functions and geographies. Governance and Compliance: Operate effectively within regulated environments, ensuring requirements and testing practices meet compliance needs and stand up to audit. Collaboration and Coaching: Partner with IT leaders, service managers, and multi-functional project teams. Share standard processes and support team development to improve on analysis quality. Essential Skills/Experience: • Experience of using business analysis tools/techniques to design and deliver business change • Strong engagement, communication and facilitation skills, including presentation and influencing skills • Demonstrated involvement in a regulated environment • Background in collaborating with third party suppliers/vendor Desirable Skills/Experience: • Degree in a relevant subject area or formal certification in business analysis practice • Exposure to Agile methodology and familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall delivery models • Experience of working in a global organisation • Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge • Excellent documentation skills and proficiency with MS Visio • Hands-on experience producing Business Requirements Documents (BRD or equivalent experience), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM), and handling product backlogs • Experience collaborating with external consultants and vendors, with strong written and oral communication • Background working with pharma clients and understanding of regulated processes • Experience employing LLMs and AI assistants to analyze interview transcripts, extract business rules, and translate findings into functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria • Applied AI-enhanced requirements engineering and prompt engineering to accelerate documentation and improve quality and consistency of requirement artifacts Why AstraZeneca: Join a high-performing, collaborative team that sits at the heart of how our business runs, where bright minds and practical problem solvers bring technology and operations together to deliver for patients. You will work on intellectually stimulating, complex challenges that require creativity, rigor, and pace—often with engineers, architects, and business leaders in the same room, turning ideas into outcomes. We champion digital innovation, thoughtful risk-taking, and data-driven decisions, and we value understanding alongside ambition. Call to Action: Make your next move count—bring your analysis leadership to a place where your work accelerates science and creates real-world impact today! Date Posted 31-Jul-2026 Closing Date 13-Aug-2026 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. Explore the local area Take a look at the map to see what’s nearby. Reasons to Join Thomas Mathisen There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines. Sales Representative Oslo, Norway There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines. Christine Recchio Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before. Sales Representative California, United States Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before. Stephanie Ling There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work. Sales Representative Petaling Jaya, Malaysia There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work. What we offer We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you. Lifelong learning Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still. Autonomy and reward Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package. Health and wellbeing An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority. Inclusion and diversity Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.