Business Analyst - Boston

Job Highlights· Location: Remote, must be based in the United States· Salary Range: $85,000-$115,000, plus benefits· Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity· Position End Date: June 30, 2025

Overview

• The Business Analyst will support the development and delivery of technical projects that improve the use of public health data to inform decision making. Working within Boston Public Health Commission, IT, Data modernization the Business Analyst will collaborate across technical and non-technical teams to gather functional and non-functional requirements, assure that requirements are correctly understood by developers, assure user training and change management, and facilitate alignment towards the planning and implementation of a public health data systems project.
• The Business Analyst will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Boston Public Health Commission, IT, Data modernization. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in requirements gathering/JAD sessions, working closely with Project or Product Manager(s), developers, subject matter experts, vendors, and users.
• Define and document requirements and use cases and assure these are correctly understood by developers.
• Identify and compile business requirements and translate them into detailed functional specifications.
• Evaluate the elements of systems design, wireframes, business and data migration rules and other deliverables.
• Develop improvement strategies to meet business needs and develop business process modelling procedures.
• Interpret key business data sets and support business intelligence strategies with quantitative analysis. Develop system architecture diagrams, data models and technical documentation to guide development efforts in IT.
• Use and contribute to developing research, evidence, practice-based insights, and other forms of information for decision making.
• Develop comprehensive test cases at the application and multi-application levels.
• Work with user community, technical teams and vendors to meet implementation timeline.
• Conduct and direct end-user testing responsibilities.
• May perform data quality assurance; troubleshooting application and/or interfaces as problems arise and report issues.
• Facilitate business/functional requirement review, approval, and sign-off sessions.
• Document business practices and workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, support process improvement, discover issues and deliver improved value.
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs and requirements. Monitor service level agreements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of …