Northeastern University
Temporary - Senior IT Business Analyst
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, us, 02298
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Boston, MA (Main Campus)time type:
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R136190**About the Opportunity**The Senior IT Business Analyst is a strategic and hands-on role responsible for analyzing, designing, and delivering business and technology solutions that align with organizational goals. This individual partners with business and IT teams to understand needs, define requirements, and ensure technology solutions are scalable, sustainable, and integrated across systems. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in business process analysis, application integration, and a passion for solving complex problems with technology.Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. The University is unable to work sponsor for this role, now or in the future**Key Responsibilities:*** Partner with stakeholders to gather and document detailed business, functional, and technical requirements.* Analyze current state processes, systems, and infrastructure to identify improvement and integration opportunities.
+ Analyze current degree audit processes to identify gaps and suggest improved processes and workflows.
+ Translate business needs into technical specifications for the software vendor and IT team.* Translate business needs into clear specifications, user stories, and technical requirements for developers and engineers.* Lead initiatives involving system integrations (APIs, middleware, data exchanges) between platforms, applications, and external vendors.* Facilitate solution design sessions with cross-functional teams, ensuring that infrastructure and integration impacts are considered.* Develop business process documentation, data flow diagrams, and systems maps that reflect current and future states.* Support QA/UAT efforts by defining test cases, validating results, and ensuring end-to-end workflows function as expected.* Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure alignment with institutional goals.* Assist in the development of training documentation for internal staff and end users to support system adoption and long-term sustainability.**Qualifications:****Required:*** Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, or related field.* 5+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst, with a focus on enterprise systems and integrations* strong analytical and problem-solving skills.* Demonstrated experience with business process modeling and requirements elicitation.* Strong understanding of API integrations, system interoperability, and middleware technologies.* Experience with business and technical requirements gathering, use case development, and solution documentation.* Proficiency in tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, and MS Office.* Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.**Preferred:*** Master’s degree or MBA.* Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, and ITIL* Experience with enterprise platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, Salesforce, SAP).* Experience with modern practices such as DevOps**Position Type**Temporary**Additional Information**Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit
for more information.All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.**Pay Rate:**90.00Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 14 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 300,000-plus alumni, and 3,000 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
The university’s residential campuses for undergraduate and graduate degrees are located in Boston, London, and Oakland, California. Our research and graduate campuses are in the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant; Arlington, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami; Portland, Maine; Seattle; Silicon Valley, California; Toronto; and Vancouver.Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Boston, MA (Main Campus)time type:
Full timeposted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition id:
R136190**About the Opportunity**The Senior IT Business Analyst is a strategic and hands-on role responsible for analyzing, designing, and delivering business and technology solutions that align with organizational goals. This individual partners with business and IT teams to understand needs, define requirements, and ensure technology solutions are scalable, sustainable, and integrated across systems. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in business process analysis, application integration, and a passion for solving complex problems with technology.Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. The University is unable to work sponsor for this role, now or in the future**Key Responsibilities:*** Partner with stakeholders to gather and document detailed business, functional, and technical requirements.* Analyze current state processes, systems, and infrastructure to identify improvement and integration opportunities.
+ Analyze current degree audit processes to identify gaps and suggest improved processes and workflows.
+ Translate business needs into technical specifications for the software vendor and IT team.* Translate business needs into clear specifications, user stories, and technical requirements for developers and engineers.* Lead initiatives involving system integrations (APIs, middleware, data exchanges) between platforms, applications, and external vendors.* Facilitate solution design sessions with cross-functional teams, ensuring that infrastructure and integration impacts are considered.* Develop business process documentation, data flow diagrams, and systems maps that reflect current and future states.* Support QA/UAT efforts by defining test cases, validating results, and ensuring end-to-end workflows function as expected.* Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure alignment with institutional goals.* Assist in the development of training documentation for internal staff and end users to support system adoption and long-term sustainability.**Qualifications:****Required:*** Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, or related field.* 5+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst, with a focus on enterprise systems and integrations* strong analytical and problem-solving skills.* Demonstrated experience with business process modeling and requirements elicitation.* Strong understanding of API integrations, system interoperability, and middleware technologies.* Experience with business and technical requirements gathering, use case development, and solution documentation.* Proficiency in tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, and MS Office.* Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.**Preferred:*** Master’s degree or MBA.* Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, and ITIL* Experience with enterprise platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, Salesforce, SAP).* Experience with modern practices such as DevOps**Position Type**Temporary**Additional Information**Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit
for more information.All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.**Pay Rate:**90.00Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 14 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 300,000-plus alumni, and 3,000 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
The university’s residential campuses for undergraduate and graduate degrees are located in Boston, London, and Oakland, California. Our research and graduate campuses are in the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant; Arlington, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami; Portland, Maine; Seattle; Silicon Valley, California; Toronto; and Vancouver.Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind. #J-18808-Ljbffr