This role involves driving business analysis initiatives to enhance customer experience and streamline requirement lifecycle management. The candidate will collaborate with stakeholders utilize domain knowledge and apply agile methodologies to deliver impactful solutions. The position requires expertise in Jira and stakeholder management with a hybrid work model and day shift.
Role: Sr. Business Analyst
Location: Remote - Candidate will need to work in PST time Zone
Experience: 12+ Years
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $110,000/Year to $135,000/Year depending on the experience and other qualifications of the candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Roles and Responsibilities
Business Analyst to support Gilead’s Digital Experience programs across Commercial, Non‑CMS, DDME, and product‑launch initiatives. The role requires strong requirements ownership, stakeholder coordination, and delivery support in a fast‑paced, highly governed environment.
Key Responsibilities
Lead requirements elicitation and translate business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
Own user‑story creation and backlog management in Azure DevOps (ADO), ensuring traceability and delivery readiness.
Work closely with Product Owners to support prioritization, clarify scope, and enable timely decision‑making.
Provide daily updates, status reporting, and progress visibility to stakeholders.
Act as a central liaison between business stakeholders, delivery teams, offshore teams, Scrum Masters, architects, QA, and agencies.
Coordinate with external agencies on requirements clarifications, design feedback, and delivery dependencies.
Support multiple concurrent initiatives, balancing priorities while maintaining quality and clarity.
Participate in design walkthroughs, UAT preparation, triage discussions, and sign‑off processes.
Proactively identify requirement gaps, risks, and dependencies and drive timely resolution.
Required Qualifications
• Business Analysis Experience
• Life sciences domain experience
• Ado Dashoboard, Creation of user stories, offshore coordination
• Prior experience working in high velocity, distributed delivery models - especially where the BA plays a strong ownership role across requirements, clarification, and sprint execution - would be expected.
The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world.
- We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen.
- We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right.
- We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.
About us:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
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Disclaimer:
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.