Data Analyst

Department: MED-Medical Social Sciences
Salary/Grade: ITS/79

Target hiring range for this position will be between $80,297 - $100,370 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Job Summary:

Performs tasks related to the design, implementation, support/maintenance, and enhancement of NU's enterprise, vendor, and in-house developed applications in support of the Center's data collection, integration, storage, and sharing. Documents functional requirements, analyzes requirements in the context of software and data flow/management processes, develops and executes test plans, assists with and documents business process improvement efforts, and works with production issues. Completes content, process, and procedures for technical and functional system work that is low to medium in complexity. Typically works with senior staff but may coordinate smaller or less complex projects independently.

Specific Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

• Partners with senior analysts, end users and peers to document and analyze functional requirements, identify gaps and alternative approaches to meet requirements, and ensure all deliverables completed (adhering to approved methodology and documentation standards).
• Partners with functional users and technical and reporting staff to determine best approaches, ensuring that approved solutions are implemented in a timely and correct fashion.

Administration

• Drafts accurate documentation of process, procedure, and system/application configuration.
• Formulates and executes test scripts, implementation project plans, rolls out communications and training materials.
• Outlines medium complexity use cases.

Development

• Formulates test scripts and performs detailed testing for moderate to complex use cases to ensure that the implemented software functions correctly.

Performance

• Collects feedback from users on application performance and escalates moderate to complex critical performance issues with technical resources and management.
• Collaborates with technical, reporting and application resources to analyze and resolve moderate to complex production issues in a timely manner. Provides input into possible solutions based on prior system knowledge and basic analytical skills.

Miscellaneous

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in a major such as computer science, information technology, or related; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.

• 2 years functional/business/system analysis or other relevant experience required.

Analytical

• critical thinking

• database design/ data structure

• decision making

• problem solving

• troubleshooting

• use-case analysis

Project

• Code documentation

• collaboration and teamwork

• functional documentation

• iterative & incremental development

• organizational skills

• workflow development & documentation

Preferred Qualifications:

• A master's degree or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired.

• Two (2) years in data management or similar experience.

• Two (2) or more years' experience in managing large data sets.

• Experience extracting data from various systems and modifying it to create views that can be analyzed by the team statisticians and psychometricians.

• Experience creating standard operating procedures and systems for monitoring the flow of data, ensuring that data are clean and properly documented.

• Experience preparing data sets for analysis and for archiving in response to internal and external requests, including documentation.

• Expertise in data management, quality assurance, analysis and reporting.

Benefits:
At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful, competitive, high-quality health care plans, retirement benefits, tuition discounts and more! Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/index.html to learn more.

Work-Life and Wellness:
Northwestern offers comprehensive programs and services to help you and your family navigate life's challenges and opportunities, and adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles.
We support flexible work arrangements where possible and programs to help you locate and pay for quality, affordable childcare and senior/adult care. Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/work-life/index.html to learn more.

Professional Growth & Development:
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