Unique skills of Scientific Informatic Business Systems Analyst (SI-BSA)

With Science evolving rapidly, new modalities such as ADCs, and mABs, new scientific technologies such as NGS, RNAi are all making data continually more complex. New laboratory techniques and instruments provide opportunities for automation and efficiency. All of this change demands more Informatics solutions and new projects. This presents SI-BSAs involved in these projects with a unique set of challenges and opportunities which means they must possess special skills to be successful. As such, SI-BSAS are often part of a project from conceptualization to strategy implementation. During this entire project phase, SI-BSAS must continue to have productive conversations and requirements gathering sessions with scientists while providing the voice of the customer guidance to the project team. Below, we have identified several major categories of skills that are specifically important as an SI-BSA over a typical BSA.