Job Description

As a Requirements Engineer and a member of a dynamic and multi-functional Agile development team, you will be responsible for developing user requirements for the purpose of creating software products that support efficient workflows and laboratory best practices. You will help build the vision of the product to meet customer needs, strategic direction, expected delivery dates, and exceptional quality standards. To be successful in this role you need a real passion for quality software, a dedication to customer happiness, and an ability to work effectively in a matrix organization. You will need a positive attitude, persistence, a love of problem solving, and the ability to communicate with people at all levels of a product development organization.

Essential Functions

• Applies knowledge of industry, domain, workflows, and personas to create requirements that reflect user needs, strategic direction, and project scope
• Continually engages with product team members and appropriate client personas to validate deliverables and to ensure that requirements will satisfy the intended purpose
• Effectively prioritizes the requirements backlog to address functional and non-functional needs and to provide accuracy and predictability of delivery
• Understand data structures and data flow between systems
• Ability to represent product workflows and requirements in appropriate visual or graphical representations (i.e. process flow diagram, data flowchart, wireframes, low fidelity prototypes, etc.)
• Gain a strong product knowledge and understanding of the healthcare market, client business drivers, and user personas
• Build relationships with external clients, internal partners, and leadership
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Skills needed to be successful

• Clear, effective, and persuasive verbal and written communication and presentations skills
• Ability to assist internal and external customers by focusing on actions/decisions that meet their needs
• Be able to understand and explain the functionality, workflows, interactions, and client usage for the assigned product
• Understanding of approaches used to identify, prioritize, and mitigate risks to reduce or eliminate potential threats to patient safety or the business
• Ability to represent product workflows as a graphical overview of the flow of data, tasks, or user actions
• Confidence to explain the business drivers, user personas, etc. for the assigned product area
• Accountability and commitment to quality
• Drive and persistence to seek information and take actions necessary to accomplish a goal.

Required Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, mathematics, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience
• 2-4 years' experience with the following:
+ Communicating with technical and subject matter experts
+ Software development life cycle
+ Working in a commercial software engineering environment

Preferred Experience & Education

• Knowledge of scientific data software, medical devices, or healthcare software
• Experience designing commercial software

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None