
Sr. Analyst (ALM), Digital Quality
Edwards Lifesciences
Summary
The Senior Analyst (ALM) is responsible for sustaining and continuously improving the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. This role partners with business, quality, engineering, validation, and IT stakeholders to define, implement, and optimize ALM processes that support requirements management, risk management, test management, validation documentation, traceability, workflow governance, reporting, and user adoption in a regulated medical device environment. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, project management awareness, and business acumen with the ability to think broadly across the enterprise.
Job description
How you will make an impact:
- System enhancement management: Manages and monitors enhancement request backlog for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
- Requirement analysis and management: Act as the primary business analyst and process liaison for the ALM platform by partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to capture business needs and convert them into clear system requirements, functional specifications, workflows, reports, and configuration requests.
- Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, prioritization, and traceability activities for ALM capabilities, including requirements management, risk management, test management, review and approval workflows, baseline management, and reporting.
- Partner with Quality, R&D, Manufacturing, Software Quality, Validation, IT, and vendor teams to ensure ALM processes align with business requirements, regulatory expectations, and applicable quality system procedures.
- Support configuration design by defining tracker structures, attributes, lifecycle states, approval workflows, role-based access needs, templates, dashboards, and reporting requirements.
- Analyze current-state processes and identify opportunities to streamline, standardize, and optimize ALM workflows, reducing manual effort while improving compliance, usability, and traceability.
- Develop and maintain business process documentation, requirements documents, user stories, test scenarios, training materials, work instructions, job aids, and knowledge base content.
- Ensure defined test strategy and test plans adequately cover the requirements.
- Support user acceptance testing, defect triage, traceability reviews, evidence collection, and validation documentation reviews.
- Facilitate workshops, design sessions, stakeholder reviews, and decision discussions to gain alignment on business process design and system functionality.
- Collaborate with technical teams to troubleshoot system issues, clarify business impacts, support root cause analysis.
- Drive user adoption through training, communication, super-user engagement, best practice sharing, and ongoing support for business users.
- Support governance activities, including change impact assessments, enhancement intake, prioritization, release planning, access reviews, and process compliance monitoring.
- Act as a mentor or knowledge resource for business analysts, project team members, and super-users supporting the ALM platform.
What you'll need (Required):
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business administration, or a related field with 5 years' experience or
- Master's degree, with 3 years' experience in an analyst, business systems analyst, product owner, or similar role supporting enterprise systems.
What else we look for (Preferred):
- Experience managing small projects
- Experience working in a medical device, life sciences, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industry.
- Ability to adapt to new technology and a rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to interface and manage multiple stakeholders.
- Result Oriented, positive "can-do" mindset with demonstration of appropriate urgency and initiative
- Experience in medical devices, pharma, biotech or healthcare related industries.
- Understanding of business analysis practices, including requirements elicitation, process mapping, stakeholder analysis, gap analysis, and solution documentation.
- Knowledge of SDLC, ALM concepts, Agile practices, requirements traceability, change control, and software validation principles.
- Experience supporting ALM, PLM, EQMS, SDLC, validation, requirements management, test management, or regulated system implementation initiatives.
- Experience drafting presentations and presenting investigation and trend summaries.
- Understanding of regulated system expectations, including 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, computer system validation, audit trails, electronic signatures, and good documentation practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and critical thinking skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead workshops, drive decisions, and build alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently with minimal supervision, and deliver high-quality documentation in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business administration, or a related field with 5 years' experience
- Master's degree with 3 years' experience in an analyst, business systems analyst, product owner, or similar role supporting enterprise systems
- Experience managing small projects
- Experience working in a medical device, life sciences, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industry
- Ability to adapt to new technology and a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to interface and manage multiple stakeholders
- Result Oriented, positive "can-do" mindset with demonstration of appropriate urgency and initiative
- Experience in medical devices, pharma, biotech or healthcare related industries
- Understanding of business analysis practices, including requirements elicitation, process mapping, stakeholder analysis, gap analysis, and solution documentation
- Knowledge of SDLC, ALM concepts, Agile practices, requirements traceability, change control, and software validation principles
- Experience supporting ALM, PLM, EQMS, SDLC, validation, requirements management, test management, or regulated system implementation initiatives
- Experience drafting presentations and presenting investigation and trend summaries
- Understanding of regulated system expectations, including 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, computer system validation, audit trails, electronic signatures, and good documentation practices
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and critical thinking skills with attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead workshops, drive decisions, and build alignment across cross-functional teams
- Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently with minimal supervision, and deliver high-quality documentation in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Performance-based incentives
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Time Off
Company overview
Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Irvine, California, the company specializes in developing breakthrough technologies for cardiovascular diseases. As a pioneer in the medical device industry, Edwards focuses on transcatheter heart valves, surgical heart valves, hemodynamic monitoring systems, and vascular solutions. The company's patient-focused culture inspires its 16,000+ employees worldwide to deliver life-changing innovations that address complex heart health challenges. Edwards serves patients in over 100 countries through its comprehensive portfolio of products including the SAPIEN transcatheter heart valve system, INSPIRIS surgical valves, and advanced monitoring technologies. With a commitment to research and development, the company invests 17-18% of its revenue back into R&D efforts, maintaining its position at the forefront of structural heart innovation. Edwards Lifesciences has impacted over one million patients globally through its transformative medical technologies.