Business Analyst, HR Data & Data Warehouse - Contract

About Vertex Pharmaceuticals Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases and has made significant advancements in cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, and acute pain — and continues to progress clinical and research programs in these diseases. We also have a robust clinical pipeline of investigational therapies across a range of modalities in other serious diseases where we have deep insight into causal human biology, including acute and neuropathic pain, APOL1-mediated kidney disease, IgA nephropathy, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, type 1 diabetes and myotonic dystrophy type 1. Our global headquarters is in Boston, and we have research and development (R&D) sites and commercial offices worldwide. Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. We have also earned a spot on TIME Most Influential Companies, TIME Best Inventions, and Fast Company Most Innovative Companies lists. Our research and medicines have received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the Prix Galien, the Scrip Award and the Breakthrough Prize awards. Read our community guidelines: https://www.vrtx.com/vertexs-community-guidelines/

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

The Science of Possibility

cystic fibrosisAPOL1-mediated kidney diseasessickle cell diseasebeta thalassemiaDuchenne muscular dystrophytype 1 diabetes mellitusand Pain

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vrtx.com

5,001-10,000 employees

Biotechnology Research

Boston, MA

1989

Public Company

645k LinkedIn followers

Raised $5.2B

• Job Title: Business Analyst, HR Data & Data WarehouseGeneral/Position Summary
• The Business Analyst - HR Data & Data Warehouse plays a key role in supporting Vertex’s HR Data Strategy by translating business needs into data and systems requirements. This role will support the design, build, and validation of HR data/metrics within the enterprise data warehouse, ensuring alignment with HR data governance standards. The analyst will collaborate cross functionally to enhance data quality, improve data management processes, and enable analytics that advance functionally-functionally to enhance data quality, improve data management processes, and enable analytics to advance organizational goals.
• This is a W2 role
• Hybriid role
• Support people analytics workstreams associated with the Crinetics acquisition and integration, including workforce data collection, validation, analysis, reporting, and ongoing monitoring.
• Partner with HR, IT, and Data Engineering teams to gather, analyze, and document business requirements for HR data in the enterprise data warehouse.
• Perform detailed process analysis to understand current state data flows and define state data flows and define future-state data flows and define future-state processes aligned with HR data governance.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications for data modeling, ETL design, and data validation activities.
• Support Snowflake based-based data warehouse development by writing SQL queries for data exploration, profiling, validation, and testing.
• Conduct data quality assessments, develop validation rules, and facilitate issue resolution to ensure accuracy and integrity of HR data.
• Collaborate with HR Data Governance leads to operationalize data standards, definitions, and controls within the data warehouse environment.
• Document processes, data mapping, and functional specifications to ensure clarity, transparency, and long-term-term maintainability.
• Assist in evaluating and integrating data cataloging and metadata management tools to enhance data discoverability and governance.
• Provide analytical support to HR and business partners, enabling data driven-driven insights through validated and trusted datasets.

Required

• Requires 3–5 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Data Analyst (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Experience working with HR systems, HR data models, or enterprise data platforms is strongly preferred.
• Prior experience supporting data warehouse, data governance, or metadata initiatives is highly desirable.
• Strong business analysis and process analysis skills.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience working in Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse platforms.
• Experience performing data validation, data profiling, and root cause analysis for data quality issues.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into structured requirements, user stories, and documentation.
• Hands-on experience in reporting and visualization tools like PowerBI, Tableau etc
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner with cross f-functional HR and Data teams.
• Ability to manage shifting priorities in a fast paced, dynamic environment-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience with data cataloging or metadata management tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra) is a plus.

Preferred

• Familiarity with People Data, HR Data Governance frameworks or data stewardship practices preferred.
• Data or analytics related-related certifications are a plus
• $68-$73
• This job posting is for a temporary role with a third-party agency partner on assignment at Vertex Pharmaceuticals (“Vertex”). The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of a third- party agency partner; compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by the third-party agency partner upon offer. The pay rate range provided is a reasonable estimate of the anticipated compensation range for this job at the time of posting. The actual pay rate will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, location and/or being pursued and other job-related factors permitted by law. In addition, this role will be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements
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