Lead Analyst; 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.

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. We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth in their ability to collaborate and innovate across disciplines – and depth in specific areas of expertise.

HUIT offers opportunities for IT professionals to learn and work in a unique technology landscape and service‑focused environment. If you are a technically proficient, nimble, user‑focused and accountable IT professional who also connects with the importance of collaborating well in a team environment we are looking for you!

Our Mission: huit.harvard.edu/about

We empower the Harvard community with essential and transformative technologies to advance education, knowledge, and discovery.

• Human‑centered
• University‑focused
• Innovation‑driven
• Team‑oriented

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.

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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, People Soft 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.

• 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.

• Minimum of seven years’ post‑secondary education or relevant work experience
• Supervisory experience

• 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.
• Demonstra…