Associate, Registry & BI Product Development

American College of Cardiology; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

American College of Cardiology seeks a Senior Business Data Analyst to blend business analysis with vendor certification for NCDR BI products. You will manage vendor onboarding, coordinate certification activities, and validate functional requirements across registries.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and Agile collaboration with IT, QA, and vendors. A Bachelor’s degree and health-care data experience are preferred. Remote-friendly hybrid work supported.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to explain complex requirements clearly.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and evolving registry submission standards.
• Demonstrated business analysis skills: eliciting, documenting, validating requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Independent, proactive work style with strong stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for vendors during certification, including scheduling calls and tracking progress.
• Coordinate certification cycles for new and existing vendors across NCDR registries.
• Lead functional walkthroughs to verify workflows, data entry, exports, and controls.
• Document issues and communicate findings to vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Prepare updated vendor certification packages with change documents and specs.
• Maintain accurate records of vendor certification status in NCDR systems.
• Elicit stakeholder requirements via interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Create wireframes/mockups to illustrate design and translate requirements into functional specs.

Job description

FUNCTION AND SCOPE: The Senior Business Data Analyst position functions as a hybrid business analyst + product/vendor specialist role supporting NCDR Registry and BI products within IT Division.

Responsibilities

Vendor Certification and Coordination

• Serve as the primary point of contact for vendors during the certification process, including scheduling certification calls, managing test cycles, and tracking progress to completion.
• Coordinate and execute certification activities for new and existing vendors across NCDR registries, including registry upgrades and new registry onboarding.
• Lead functional walkthroughs during vendor demonstrations to verify required workflows, data entry capabilities, exports, and system controls.
• Document issues, defects, and gaps identified during certification; communicate findings clearly to vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Support continuing certification activities for vendors during registry enhancements, minor releases, and major upgrades.
• Assist in preparing and releasing updated vendor certification packages, including change documents and revised technical specifications.
• Maintain accurate records of vendor certification status and ensure certified vendors are properly documented in NCDR systems and listings.

Business & Requirements Analysis

• Bring best practice and commitment to problem solving including skills to diagnose, evaluate and resolve complex problems and queries, and elevate as appropriate according to defined processes.
• Elicit stakeholder requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Possess the ability to distill information based on specific user/business needs as well as decompose high level feature requirements into detailed functional requirements.
• Capture, define, analyze, and translate functional and non‑functional business requirements into activity diagrams, system use cases and supplemental specifications that contribute to effective software development.
• Create wireframes and/or mock‑ups to graphically represent the functionality under design.
• Author requirements in the form of pseudocode (SQL logic) for the development and traceability of clinical metrics.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Coordinate requirements walk‑through and sign‑offs, verifying with user representatives/stakeholders that use cases and process models accurately portray specific business needs.
• Provide subject‑matter expertise for NCDR Registry products.
• Work with the quality assurance team to validate system acceptance and user acceptance test plans and test scripts to ensure error‑free applications, tools, and reports. Assist in analyzing testing results throughout the project.
• Work closely with the technical team to ensure functional requirements are accurate and complete. Ensure detail design documents accurately reflect customer needs and expectations.
• Promote continuous improvement by proactively identifying opportunities to streamline certification workflows, strengthen documentation, and improve data quality.
• Stay current with evolving technologies and industry best practices to recommend practical enhancements to tools, processes, and vendor integration approaches.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex requirements to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, cross‑functional environment while meeting deadlines.
• Strong aptitude and willingness to learn new technologies, tools, and evolving registry submission standards.
• Demonstrated business analysis skills, including eliciting, documenting, and validating functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills to diagnose issues, evaluate options, and elevate appropriately using defined processes.
• High attention to detail and a track record of producing quality deliverables (requirements, workflows, test artifacts, and status tracking).
• Ability to work independently and proactively, with strong follow‑through in coordinating with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Customer‑focused approach with the ability to build trusted partnerships and ensure a high‑quality vendor onboarding/certification experience.
• Working knowledge of data concepts and logic (e.g., ability to read/write SQL or SQL‑style pseudocode) to support metric definitions, validation, and traceability.
• Experience working in an Agile software development lifecycle, including collaboration with technical and QA teams to support UAT/SAT planning, execution, and defect triage.

Desired Qualifications

• Business analyst training or certification.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• 6+ years of business analysis experience and requirements documentation in software development.
• 2+ years of experience in Use Case diagramming, Business Process Mapping, Sequence and Activity diagramming, and UML required.
• 2+ years working with large datasets/databases.
• Proficiency with SQL and ability to understand XML/JSON document structure.
• Experience in multi‑tier web application architecture, preferably for data capture.
• Health Care industry experience (patient data collection and reporting).

About Us

At the American College of Cardiology, we bring our hearts to work. We are a 500‑person organization dedicated to transforming cardiovascular care and improving heart health for all for more than 75 years. We are committed to supporting our more than 60,000 members and their patients around the globe and ensuring our staff have a positive environment of teamwork, collaboration, professionalism and excellence.

What We Offer

ACC offers world‑class benefits and a culture of work‑life balance, including medical, dental, vision, basic life, short‑ and long‑term disability, and supplemental options, generous paid time off, tuition assistance, a competitive 10% retirement contribution after a year of service, and more.

EEO Statement

ACC is proud to be an equal‑opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all candidates and employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and veterans. ACC is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact Katie Sarreal, HR Business Partner at [e-mail] or (202)375‑6351.