Data Analyst
Listed on 2026-02-14
-
IT/Tech
Data Analyst, Systems Analyst, Database Administrator
Department
MED-Medical Social Sciences
Salary/GradeITS/79
Target hiring range for this position will be between $80,297 - $100,370 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Job SummaryPerforms tasks related to the design, implementation, support/maintenance, and enhancement of NU's enterprise, vendor, and in-house developed applications in support of the Center’s data collection, integration, storage, and sharing. Documents functional requirements, analyzes requirements in the context of software and data flow/management processes, develops and executes test plans, assists with and documents business process improvement efforts, and works with production issues.
Completes content, process, and procedures for technical and functional system work that is low to medium in complexity. Typically works with senior staff but may coordinate smaller or less complex projects independently.
- Partners with senior analysts, end users and peers to document and analyze functional requirements, identify gaps and alternative approaches to meet requirements, and ensure all deliverables completed (adhering to approved methodology and documentation standards).
- Partners with functional users and technical and reporting staff to determine best approaches, ensuring that approved solutions are implemented in a timely and correct fashion.
- Drafts accurate documentation of process, procedure, and system/application configuration.
- Formulates and executes test scripts, implementation project plans, rolls out communications and training materials.
- Outlines medium complexity use cases.
- Formulates test scripts and performs detailed testing for moderate to complex use cases to ensure that the implemented software functions correctly.
- Collects feedback from users on application performance and escalates moderate to complex critical performance issues with technical resources and management.
- Collaborates with technical, reporting and application resources to analyze and resolve moderate to complex production issues in a timely manner. Provides input into possible solutions based on prior system knowledge and basic analytical skills.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in a major such as computer science, information technology, or related; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
- 2 years functional/business/system analysis or other relevant experience required.
- critical thinking
- database design/ data structure
- decision making
- problem solving
- troubleshooting
- use-case analysis
- Code documentation
- collaboration and teamwork
- functional documentation
- iterative & incremental development
- organizational skills
- workflow development & documentation
- A master's degree or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired.
- Two (2) years in data management or similar experience.
- Two (2) or more years’ experience in managing large data sets.
- Experience extracting data from various systems and modifying it to create views that can be analyzed by the team statisticians and psychometricians.
- Experience creating standard operating procedures and systems for monitoring the flow of data, ensuring that data are clean and properly documented.
- Experience preparing data sets for analysis and for archiving in response to internal and external requests, including documentation.
- Expertise in data management, quality assurance, analysis and reporting.
At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful, competitive, high-quality health care plans, retirement benefits, tuition discounts and more! Visit us at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). to learn more.
Work-Life And WellnessNorthwestern offers comprehensive programs and services to help you and your family navigate…
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).