Business Analyst for Research Systems

$65,000 - $75,000/Yr

University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Minneapolis, MN

Educational Services

About the position

The University of Minnesota is seeking a Business Analyst for the Research & Innovation Office (RIO) to support and maintain research administration systems. This role focuses on providing ongoing support for a new grants management system utilized by UMN researchers to submit proposals and receive awards from external funding sources. The Business Analyst will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure the system meets business needs and aligns with strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Provide full-time business analysis and technical support for a new enterprise research system.
• Map current and future-state business processes and align technology solutions with business strategies.
• Analyze and document business needs to create detailed business/functional requirements and technical specifications.
• Provide quality assurance/testing for users of the system, including developing functional and UAT test plans and scripts.
• Execute test plans and document test scripts, statistics, metrics, and results.
• Maintain test plans and scripts to ensure they remain current over time.
• Provide training and technical guidance to less experienced staff.
• Develop a working knowledge of RIO business units and enterprise research technology systems.
• Update technical user guides and create job aids to support the system.
• Coordinate regulation-driven development of the system.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and two years of relevant experience or master's degree or a comparable combination of education, training, and/or experience equal to six years.
• Familiarity with the software development cycle.
• Experience with waterfall and agile development methodologies.
• Experience with business process mapping.

Nice-to-haves

• Business Analysis Certificate.
• Experience working in research, sponsored projects, and/or higher education.
• Experience working with data regulated by federal, state, and/or local law, policy or agreement.
• Application UI, UX, database query knowledge and/or data analysis experience.
• Quality assurance/testing experience; writing and executing manual and automated test scripts.
• Proficiency working with service request ticketing systems.

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary range of $65,000-$75,000 based on education, experience, and qualifications.
• Flexible work location options including fully remote, partially remote, or entirely in the office.