Business Analyst, HR Data & Data Warehouse - Contract

Vertex Pharmaceuticals LLC; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals LLC in Boston is seeking a Business Analyst for HR Data & Data Warehouse to translate business needs into data requirements. You will help design, build, and validate HR data within the enterprise warehouse, collaborating across HR, IT and Data Engineering.

Key focus areas include ensuring data governance, data quality, and enabling analytics with trusted datasets. This is a hybrid W2 role requiring 3–5 years of BI/analytic experience in HR data environments.

Qualifications

• Requires 3–5 years as a Business Analyst or Data Analyst.
• Experience with HR data, HR systems, or enterprise data platforms preferred.
• Snowflake, SQL, data governance or metadata familiarity is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support HR data analytics workstreams for integrations and ongoing monitoring.
• Collaborate with HR, IT and Data Engineering to capture requirements for the data warehouse.
• Analyze current data flows and define future-state processes aligned with governance.
• Translate business needs into technical specs for data modeling and ETL.
• Assist Snowflake-based data warehouse development with queries and validation.
• Conduct data quality assessments and establish validation rules.
• Partner with data governance leads to operationalize standards and controls.
• Document data mapping and functional specs for maintainability.
• Assist in evaluating data cataloging tools to improve governance.
• Provide analytics support with validated, trusted datasets.

Skills

SQL

Data validation

Data profiling

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Communication

Requirements gathering

HR data knowledge

Data governance

Data modeling

Tools

Snowflake

PowerBI

Tableau

Alation

Collibra

Job description

Job Description

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

Key Responsibilities

• 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 Experience

• 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.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• 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 Requirements

• Familiarity with People Data, HR Data Governance frameworks or data stewardship practices preferred.
• Data or analytics related-related certifications are a plus

Pay Range

$68-$73