Candel Therapeutics

Senior IT Business Analyst

Needham, MA
Full Time
Experienced

**This is a hybrid, in office (Needham, MA) role. All candidates must live locally. 

At Candel, our people drive our success. We value diversity, collaboration, and bold thinking in a supportive, mission-driven environment. We are a high performing team; we show up for each other and stay focused on making a difference for patients and families. Our leadership is transparent and empowering, and our culture is built on trust, flexibility, and accountability, encouraging ownership and innovation every day.  

Our Science: Advancing Cancer Immunotherapies  

Candel is a clinical-stage biopharma company developing off-the-shelf, multimodal immunotherapies that stimulate personalized, systemic anti-tumor responses. Our platforms use genetically modified adenovirus and HSV constructs. With positive Phase 3 results for our lead candidate, it’s an exciting time to join us and help bring transformative cancer treatments to patients. Learn more: www.candeltx.com  

Position Summary  
In this newly created role, the Senior IT Business Analyst acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and the IT department, ensuring technology solutions align with business needs. This role involves gathering requirements, analyzing processes, and recommending improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity through technology.  This role will also flex it’s product manager skills to product management of our FileMaker Pro databases on our FileMaker Pro Platform.  This role shall work effectively in a self‑directed capacity, while keeping stakeholders appropriately informed and aligned. 

This is a hybrid role.   
Salary: $166,000 - $180,000 + bonus

Key Responsibilities  

  • Own the end‑to‑end product management of the FileMaker Pro platform and associated databases. 

  • Lead requirements gathering and solution definition by partnering with functional areas to translate business needs into clear, complete, and audit‑ready functional and non‑functional requirements. 

  • Develop and maintain SDLC documentation, including traceability matrices, design and configuration specifications, UAT test scripts, security specifications, validation deliverables, and change control artifacts. 

  • Inform vendor selection and solutioning by translating business and technical requirements into structured RFI/RFP content and participating in vendor evaluations. 

  • Oversee vendor activities and deliverables, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with scope, quality expectations, and regulatory requirements. 

  • Support project planning and execution, including scope definition, meeting facilitation, timeline development, resource coordination, testing, validation, and implementation of new systems or enhancements. 

  • Prepare stakeholder‑ready reports, presentations, and documentation to communicate progress, risks, decisions, and system impacts. 

  • Analyze system and operational data to identify trends, issues, and opportunities for process or system improvement. 

  • Collaborate with Quality and Compliance teams to maintain audit readiness and ensure alignment with GxP practices and internal quality standards. 

Education and Experience: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.  

  • 3–5 years of experience as a Business Analyst in IT or related roles. 

  • Experience with requirements gathering, process mapping, and system implementation.  

  • Experience working on custom software development as a scrum master and/or product manager, preferred 

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

  • Excellent communication and documentation abilities. 

  • Proficiency in tools such as MS Office, Visio, and project management software. 

  • Business acumen and technical understanding. 

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines. 

  • Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. 

  • Certifications such as CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional), PMI-PBA (Professional in Business Analysis) and/or ITIL Foundation are a nice to have 

  • Experience in FDA 21 CFR Part 11, IT SOX, and GxP-regulated environments.  

  • Consulting or small/emerging company experience in the life sciences sector highly desirable.  

    NOTE: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. At this time, the Company does not provide, and will not provide in the future, sponsorship for employment visas. 

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