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 Princeton, NJ or San Deigo, CA. Acadia's hybrid model requires this role to work in our office three days per week on average.
Position Summary:
The Information Technology Senior Analyst, Data Services works closely with IT Business Partners to define and document key processes, requirements, knowledge articles, and user documentation. The IT Senior Analyst will work both on projects and with operational teams to identify communication and training to help ease the introduction of new technologies, and to further improve operational processes.
Primary Duties & 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)
- Create training materials, “How Tos,” 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/or execute system integration testing to ensure solutions are built to requirements and specifications
- Facilitate resolution of Tier 1 and 2 application or data issues for business partners and escalate to vendor support as needed
- Act as operational point person for existing systems and solutions 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
- Define standard operating procedures and perform periodic review activities for systems
Education/Experience/Skills:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems with at least a couple years of applied work experience. An equivalent combination of relevant education and applicable job experience may be considered.
- Strong understanding of SQL and database principles
- Ability to be highly organized, self-motivated with the capability to prioritize projects and workload
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, including tact, diplomacy and flexibility
- Excellent skills in defining and documenting processes, requirements, and training materials
- Previous pharma experience preferred or a desire to learn in a pharma environment
The following considered a plus:
- Working experience with Azure Services, specifically Azure Synapse / Data Warehouse
- Working experience with Veeva CRM or Salesforce
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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What We Do
Our Acadia family of care-ageous warriors aspire to enable brighter moments for patients and their loved ones. For 30 years, 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 approved therapies for hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis and for the treatment of Rett syndrome. Our clinical-stage development efforts are focused on treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease psychosis and neuropsychiatric symptoms in central nervous system disorders.
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Please note that the Acadia Talent Acquisition and HR Team will ONLY interact with a candidate from "Acadia-pharm.com" domain sourced emails. We do not request sensitive personal information, such as a Social Security Number, or payments of any kind during the interview or job offer process. Acadia strongly recommends individuals, who receive email solicitations, to carefully verify the authenticity of the correspondence before responding. Never provide personal information or click on links if you are unsure a communication’s legitimacy. If in doubt, please contact [email protected] to verify.
