Principal Business Analyst
Altera Digital Health APAC · Ohio, United States · 2 wk ago
Analyst$130k–$160k/yrFull-time
Product Execution, Requirements & Specification
- Translate product strategy, feature briefs, regulatory requirements, client workflow needs, support trends, and product-line priorities into detailed product requirements and developer-ready stories.
- Frame the real problem before writing the requirement.
- Separate the underlying customer pain from the requested feature and evaluate alternative solutions before committing to scope.
- Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow details, edge cases, validation scenarios, configuration considerations, and release-readiness notes.
- Own backlog readiness for assigned product domain, ensuring scope, risk, dependencies, and testability are understood before work enters development.
- Own the Definition of Ready and PRD/specification standard for assigned work, ensuring the team can trust that the requirement is complete enough to build, test, document, support, and release.
- Partner with engineering teams during refinement, sprint planning, development, demos, validation, and post-release issue triage.
- Clarify requirements, answer development questions, and help resolve scope, workflow, or dependency ambiguity quickly and thoughtfully.
- Ensure stories are traceable to client needs, business goals, regulatory requirements, support issues, product strategy, or measurable product outcomes.
- Support UAT, product validation, release readiness, and post-release issue triage.
AI-Augmented Product Ownership
- Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate discovery, synthesis, workflow modeling, edge-case generation, release-note drafting, and requirements analysis.
- Direct the Mary agent and related AI tools to compare options, summarize client input, generate edge cases, draft workflows, pressure-test assumptions, and identify downstream risks.
- Validate AI outputs with healthcare, EHR, regulatory, and domain judgment before those outputs are trusted or used as product decisions.
- Know what not to trust AI to do, including unsupported clinical interpretation, unverified regulatory conclusions, unsafe workflow recommendations, or requirements that appear polished but lack evidence.
- Write high-quality prompts, acceptance criteria, decision records, release notes, and specification artifacts; in an AI world, writing quality matters more, not less.
- Use AI to expand thinking, not replace product judgment.
Healthcare Workflow, Data & Clinical Safety
- Apply strong ambulatory EHR workflow fluency across documentation, orders, medications, problem lists, results, billing, referrals, interoperability, configuration, and downstream operational workflows.
- Apply clinical safety instinct by identifying where a design could confuse a clinician, create bad data, interrupt care, introduce downstream risk, or create a patient-safety concern.
- Understand that healthcare data standards and clinical vocabularies are not “just codes.”
- Balance workflow usability, data quality, interoperability, regulatory expectations, security/access considerations, and supportability when shaping requirements.
- Escalate patient-safety, regulatory, data integrity, or clinical workflow concerns early and clearly.
Product Decision Quality
- Write lightweight Product Decision Records for high-risk domain decisions, capturing what was chosen, what was rejected, why the decision was made, what evidence was used, and what risks remain.
- Challenge assumptions and distinguish client requests from underlying product problems.
- Evaluate solution options with Product Strategy, UX, Architecture, Engineering, Services, Support, Regulatory, and GTM stakeholders before high-impact requirements enter development.
- Make requirements testable, supportable, explainable, and aligned to measurable product outcomes.
Ticket & Client Workflow Triage
- Review, analyze, and triage support tickets, client escalations, defects, and enhancement requests.
- Identify patterns across support issues and recommend whether items should be handled as defects, enhancements, training opportunities, workflow clarification, or roadmap candidates.
- Partner with Support, Services, and Implementation teams to understand real-world client workflow impact.
- Participate in client-facing discussions as needed to clarify workflows, validate requirements, or support escalations.
- Translate client and internal stakeholder feedback into actionable product requirements and decision-ready options.
Support Ticket & Client Workflow Triage
- Review, analyze, and triage support tickets, client escalations, defects, and enhancement requests.
- Identify patterns across support issues and recommend whether items should be handled as defects, enhancements, training opportunities, workflow clarification, or roadmap candidates.
- Partner with Support, Services, and Implementation teams to understand real-world client workflow impact.
- Participate in client-facing discussions as needed to clarify workflows, validate requirements, or support escalations.
- Translate client and internal stakeholder feedback into actionable product requirements and decision-ready options.
GTM, Enablement & Release Readiness
- Contribute to GTM and enablement planning by providing product details, workflow impact, client value, configuration considerations, adoption risks, and release readiness input.
- Partner with Product Strategy, CMO/Marketing, Services, Support, Sales, Regulatory, and Technical Writing to ensure internal teams understand what is changing, why it matters, and how to explain it.
- Provide inputs for release notes, product documentation, training materials, FAQs, demo scripts, sales enablement, internal enablement content, and client-facing product communication.
- Help identify impacted users, client workflows, configuration needs, implementation considerations, training needs, adoption barriers, and support risks.
- Support Services and Support teams in preparing for client rollout, implementation, and post-release questions.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as a senior product execution partner for assigned product domains.
- Help mentor Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Product Analysts on story writing, acceptance criteria, requirements quality, workflow analysis, AI-augmented discovery, and decision documentation.
- Facilitate alignment between Product Strategy, Engineering, UX, Architecture, Regulatory, Services, Support, PMO, GTM, and Technical Writing.
- Escalate risks, unclear decisions, scope conflicts, patient-safety concerns, and delivery blockers early.
- Help ensure product work is clear, testable, supportable, documented, and aligned to business, client, regulatory, and user needs.