Réalta Technologies is seeking a Manufacturing Data Business Analyst to support our pharmaceutical client based in Cork with the development and deployment of a strategic manufacturing data platform focused on data standardisation, contextualisation, and interoperability across manufacturing systems.
The successful candidate will work with business stakeholders, manufacturing SMEs, and technical teams to translate business requirements into structured, testable deliverables. This is not a software development role; the primary focus is on requirements management, documentation, data analysis, and solution definition.
Job Responsibilities
- Facilitate requirements gathering workshops with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Laboratory and Digital stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain Functional Design Specifications (FDS), Business Requirements Documents (BRD), User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
- Define and document manufacturing data requirements, business rules, and source-to-target data mappings.
- Support development of manufacturing data standards, taxonomies, information models, and business glossaries.
- Develop SIT/UAT test scripts, support test execution, and maintain requirements traceability.
- Work closely with product owners, architects, and implementation teams to ensure requirements are complete, unambiguous, and testable.
Job Requirements
- 3+ years experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Product Analyst, or similar role.
- Experience authoring Functional Designs, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and Test Scripts.
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills.
- Experience with requirements traceability and structured delivery methodologies.
- Experience working with data models, data mappings, information structures, or data governance activities.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- Manufacturing, pharmaceutical, laboratory, automation, MES, Historian, ERP, LIMS, or industrial systems experience. (Preferred)
- Familiarity with ISA-95 concepts and manufacturing data hierarchies. (Preferred)
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or other requirements management tools. (Preferred)
- Experience defining data standards, master data, taxonomies, semantic models, business glossaries, or canonical information models. (Preferred)
