Lead Analyst (Two year term position)
Company Description
By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise. We are dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone can thrive.
Why join Harvard University Central Administration?
Harvard University's Central Administration (CADM) is a 5,000+ employee organization that supports the university's overall excellence by understanding and serving the needs of its schools, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and surrounding communities. Through dynamic and collaborative partnerships, CADM provides high-quality and efficient services to the schools to help them achieve their goals.
Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to understanding our users and devoted to making it easier for faculty, students, and staff to teach, research, learn, and work through the effective use of information technology.
More About HUIT:
Our Mission: huit.harvard.edu/about
We empower the Harvard community with essential and transformative technologies to advance education, knowledge, and discovery.
HUIT's core values are: Human-centered, University-focused, Innovation-driven, Team-oriented
IT Academy (designed for IT Staff):
HUIT's IT Academy aims to enable each IT staff person to grow professionally and become a trusted partner to her or his team. The IT Academy is built on the belief that every IT staff member across the University (including technology employees at each school and campus) can grow in her or his area of expertise as well as building strong people and project management skills. Learn more here: https://itacademy.harvard.edu/.
Job Description
Reporting to the Associate Director, HR Systems, the Lead Analyst serves as one of the functional leads for a portfolio of university-wide HR systems, which may include Harvard's Learning Management System (LMS) environment, PeopleSoft Payroll, and related HR applications.
The Lead Analyst partners with stakeholders across Harvard to lead projects, analyze business needs, drive system enhancements, and ensure applications effectively support HR initiatives and operations. This role provides functional leadership for complex projects, mentors other analysts, and serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
Job-Specific Responsibilities:
- Lead requirements gathering, business process analysis, testing, implementation, and change management activities.
- Coordinate system integrations and business processes across HR applications, as well as other Harvard systems, third-party vendors and IT teams.
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and work coordination for other analysts on the HR Systems team working on the same project.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point.
- Partner with the Associate Director, HR Systems to support portfolio planning, project prioritization, and resource coordination.
- Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously while ensuring high-quality service and support
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of seven years' post-secondary education or relevant work experience
- Supervisory experience
Additional Qualifications and Skills:
- 10+ years of experience in business systems analysis and/or product management with progressive responsibility of managing complex IT environments.
- Experience with running and managing large IT projects, with a cross functional agile team.
- Demonstrated ability to build and foster a broad range of business relationships with administrators, human resources, faculty affairs, and finance professionals.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, develop and mentor teams.
- Must be passionate about delivering great service and driving on products and projects in the public interest.
- Strong organizational skills, communication skills (written, oral and presentation) with a concern for accuracy, details and quality to cross-functional and non-technical business owners.
- Strong knowledge about the business processes and related technologies that support HR, finance, and faculty affairs teams.
- Ability to think strategically while working through tactical short-term priorities.
- Experience working with the Agile methodology.
Certificates and Licenses:
- Completion of Harvard IT Academy specified foundational courses (or external equivalent) preferred
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