Junior Bioinformatics Business Analyst

Overview

Position contingent on contract award - details below are subject to change based on final award.

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for a Junior Bioinformatics Business Analyst to support our work with the CDC.

In this role, you will support the strategy, evolution, and adoption of enterprise bioinformatics platforms, analytical tools, and data solutions supporting public health initiatives. This role serves as a liaison between scientific stakeholders, product teams, and technical teams, translating bioinformatics and public health requirements into actionable product features, platform capabilities, and implementation plans within an Agile delivery environment.

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists, public health stakeholders, and technical teams to elicit, analyze, and document business, scientific, operational, and technical requirements for bioinformatics platforms and tools.
• Develop and maintain use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements that support bioinformatics and data platform initiatives.
• Partner with product managers, architects, and technical leads to define, prioritize, and refine platform capabilities, enhancements, and strategic roadmaps.
• Coordinate activities across bioinformatics, data science, engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment, dependency management, and successful solution delivery.
• Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Program Increment (PI) planning while tracking requirements, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.
• Assist with governance activities, KPI and success metric definition, product demonstrations, stakeholder briefings, and user feedback sessions to promote platform adoption and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience analyzing bioinformatics workflows, data types, and analytical use cases such as genomics, sequencing data, pipelines, or surveillance analytics
• Knowledge of common bioinformatics, life sciences, or public health data platforms or analytical tools
• Knowledge of front-end or back-end technologies used for application development, including SQL, NoSQL databases, or web-based interactive user interfaces
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe delivery environments
• Ability to lead client and stakeholder discussions, ask the right questions, document clear requirements, and translate them into actionable implementation steps
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• Bachelors degree

Final salary determination based on skill-set, qualifications, and approved funding.

Many of our jobs come with great benefits – Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location, and may include the following:

Paid Time Off

PTO / Vacation – 5.67 hours accrued per pay period / 136 hours accrued annually

Paid Holidays - 11

California residents receive an additional 24 hours of sick leave a year

Health & Wellness

Medical

Dental

Vision

Prescription

Employee Assistance Program

Short- & Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Spending Account

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Health Reimbursement Account

Dependent Care Spending Account

Commuter Benefits

Retirement

401k / 401a

Voluntary Benefits

Hospital Indemnity

Critical Illness

Accident Insurance

Pet Insurance

Legal Insurance

ID Theft Protection

Teleworking Permitted?

Yes

Teleworking Details

Remote - US

Estimated Salary/Wage

USD $58,000.00/Yr. Up to USD $64,000.00/Yr.