Senior IT Business Analyst

About Acadia Pharmaceuticals

Acadia is advancing breakthroughs in neuroscience to elevate life. Since our founding, we have been working at the forefront of healthcare to bring vital solutions to people who need them most. We developed and commercialized the first and only FDA-approved drug to treat hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis and the first and only approved drug in the United States and Canada for the treatment of Rett syndrome. Our clinical-stage development efforts are focused on Prader-Willi syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease psychosis, and multiple other programs targeting neuro-psychiatric and neuro-rare diseases. For more information, visit us at Acadia.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

 

Please note that this position is based in San Diego, CA or Princeton, NJ. Acadia's hybrid model requires this role to work in our office on average three days per week.

 Drive impactful IT solutions and optimize business processes as a Senior IT Business Analyst. You'll collaborate with IT Business Partners to define requirements, document processes, and create user-friendly knowledge materials. Whether supporting projects or operational teams, you'll improve communication, training, and technology adoption to enhance efficiency.. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with Business and IT Business Partners to help define and document business processes and requirements, including, but not limited to, data flow, data storage, application usability, reporting and analytics
• Support project management in the implementation of technology solutions according to Acadia’s software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing customer and supplier relationships
• Create training materials, “How To’s,” and knowledge items to ease user adoption of new technology
• Create detailed user acceptance testing (UAT) scripts and facilitate UAT with business partners
• Define, coordinate and execute system integration testing to ensure solutions are built to requirements and specifications
• Facilitate the resolution of Tier 1 and 2 application issues for Business Partners and escalate to vendor support as needed
• Act as operational lead for existing systems, including holding recurring operational meetings with Business Partners and vendors, tracking and evaluating change requests, initiating change controls for implementation of changes, coordinating routine system patches and escalating issues to IT Business Partners
• Conduct source systems data quality analysis as needed
• Uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve issues creatively and effectively, exercising judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results

 

Education/Experience/Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or a related field with 5 years of applied work experience. An equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable job experience may be considered.
• Experience using Veeva (Veeva CRM highly desired)
• Ability to be highly organized, self-motivated, with the capability to prioritize projects and workload
• Previous pharmaceutical experience preferred or a desire to learn in a pharmaceutical environment
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including tact, diplomacy and flexibility
• Excellent skills in defining and documenting processes, requirements, and training materials

 

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, see, talk or hear in a standard office environment. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.

 

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In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for discretionary bonus and equity awards based on factors such as individual and organizational performance. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance, and location. 

Salary Range$107,300—$134,100 USD