HR Data & Data Warehouse Analyst (Hybrid)

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

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.