Senior Business Analyst - Basic Science and Clinical Research

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we are looking for strategic thinkers who will help assure the security and compliance of UT Southwestern. With a career in our Information Technology department at UT Southwestern, you will be able to help with our mission to provide exceptional clinical care and create cutting-edge research programs as you grow your IT and security career. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a life-changing career!

Job Summary

As a member of the Information Resources (IR) team, the Senior Business Analyst plays a pivotal role in catering to the Basic science research community as well as serving as back up for the Clinical Research community at UT Southwestern. In this role you will provide high-quality service to researchers, staff, and students and for the day-to-day operations, support, and management of the following research applications critical to research administration operations: Basic Science Animal Research Management System (Topaz Elements), Clinical Trials Management System (Velos), and Florence eBinder System. You will collaborate with department leaders, business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand specific needs and initiatives and manage the design and development of solutions to ensure alignment with organizational goals and needs. This role requires you to stay informed of advancements in research technologies and tools that enhance the experience and optimize operations for the research community. This position requires someone who is structured and organized in their approach, possesses a forward-thinking/continuous process improvement mindset. Our ideal candidate has experience in Basic Science Animal Research Management System (Topaz Elements), Clinical Trials Management System (Velos), or Florence eBinder System.

Education and Experience

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor\'s degree in business administration, computer science, or other related field and five (5) years business systems and/or project experience with exposure to systems or project development and testing, installation, and training.

Job Duties

• Serve as the Business Stakeholder liaison to facilitate application requests, manage issues and problem resolution for the institutional Basic Science.
• Manages projects and serves as primary customer contact. Defines and maintains project plan and schedules.
• Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Provides regular project status reports to customer and internal management.
• Assists business analysts of lower grade to coordinate projects.
• Collects, interprets, and documents specifications required to develop new and revise existing software applications.
• Develops and implements operational plans for new and existing business computer applications.
• Participates in development of project proposals for customers.
• Coordinates testing of new applications and changes to existing applications to ensure integrity and quality of data while providing and/or assisting in training of system users. 
• Defines and develops test scenarios.
• Documents and tracks status of application errors and related issues in problem log.
• Assists programmers and business analysts of lower grade in analyzing and resolving problems.
• Compiles complete, concise, and comprehensive policies and operation procedures to assist in communicating issues to applicable management staff.
• Develops new system administrative procedures required, utilizing new functionality resulting from systems changes.
• Assists in developing and implementing business strategies in departments to improve operational processing and productivity.
• Monitors development of specifications and establishes priorities for accomplishing design and testing of various projects.
• Reviews, develops, recommends, and implements activites, programs, or functions as assigned.
• Maintains and tracks accounts assigned to projects or programs.
• Develops and maintains project plans. 
• Provides project status reports. Records time spent on projects to meet cost-recovery requirements.
• May supervise lower level analysts.
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit: https://jobs.utsouthwestern.edu/why-work-here/diversity-inclusion.