56 information technology jobs found in Cambridge

Job Summary: The Associate Data Scientist will work closely with Opportunity Insights’ Founding Director, Executive Director, faculty, and senior researchers and staff to transform large administrative and program datasets into reproducible analyses, statistical models, and decision-support tools. The position helps translate complex research findings into accessible metrics, visualizations, and reports for internal leadership and external partners, including policymakers and practitioners. This position will report to Raj Chetty, Opportunity Insights’s Founding Director. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Analyze large, complex administrative and program datasets in support of specific research projects, and contribute to the design, development, and enhancement of OI’s broader data infrastructure. Construct robust statistical models to produce statistics, such as those in the Opportunity Atlas, from confidential microdata, ensuring the application of appropriate privacy...

The Operational Accounting & Systems Manager reports to the Associate Director of Accounting and is a key member of the CSFA management team. This role directs, coaches, and provides hands-on guidance to the accounting team responsible for operational real estate accounting. The Operational Accounting & Systems Manager ensures strong internal controls and full compliance with GAAP, University and Campus Services accounting policies and applicable laws and regulations. The role is also responsible for driving process improvement and efficiency through effective use of technology and automation. Success in this position requires strong leadership, independent judgment, critical analysis, clear communication, advanced technical accounting systems skills, and innovative problem solving. The Operational Accounting & Systems Manager successfully collaborates with a wide range of university partners, including (but not limited to) Harvard University Housing & Real Estate,...

Position Summary Reporting to the Assistant Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, the Manager works closely with faculty, academic leadership, alumni, and external partners to develop educational initiatives that advance the School's academic mission and extend the reach of HDS scholarship and teaching to local, national, and global audiences. The position leads the development and growth of professional and lifelong learning opportunities offered during the summer, January Term (J-Term), and throughout the academic year, while supporting a portfolio of faculty-driven academic programs, lectures, conferences, workshops, symposia, and other public-facing educational initiatives. This role combines faculty engagement, partnership building, operational leadership, assessment, and strategic planning, with responsibility for creating high-quality in-person, online, and hybrid learning experiences that strengthen HDS's educational impact and support institutional priorities. The...

Harvard Law School’s Faculty Support Services Department (FSS) is dedicated to providing approximately 200 faculty members and instructors with the high-quality assistance they need to successfully teach, conduct research, and advance scholarship. While each assistant works directly with members of the faculty—often acting as a liaison between students, other instructors, and various Law School and University administrative departments—our department comprises a collaborative and supportive team of assistants who are committed to collecting and sharing the most effective methods of administrative support.   Faculty Support Services seeks an Executive Assistant (EA) who can fulfill this dual role as an independent problem-solver and enthusiastic team member. As the Executive Assistant you will:   Perform a wide range of administrative duties for a highly active faculty member, supporting their teaching, travel, research and external activities.  Serve as a key contact for a...

Job Summary: The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is a university-wide initiative dedicated to interdisciplinary research focused primarily on the quantitative social science of population change, socioeconomic development, and public health. Our goal is to produce population-based evidence that will better inform policies needed to create healthy and resilient societies. The HCPDS is seeking a full-time, experienced Research Assistant (RA) to support our field-based activities for its NIH-funded study, Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies in South Africa (HAALSA). HAALSA began as a community-based longitudinal cohort study nested within the heath and socio-demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in Agincourt, South Africa. The goal of this research project is to explore aging in South Africa, with focal areas in cognitive health, cardiometabolic disease, HIV and HIV treatment, public policies, social determinants of health, and health...

About The  Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative  (H&LS) is dedicated to addressing systemic inequities by developing and advancing visible, lasting, and effective actions grounded in Harvard’s educational mission and guided by the findings and recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery. Sara Bleich, Vice Provost for Special Projects, leads the implementation of the recommendations from the Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery. Job   Summary The Senior Program Manager (Sr. PM) is responsible for the comprehensive oversight of H&LS's programmatic portfolio. The portfolio encompasses programs directly managed by H&LS and those funded by H&LS but administered by other Schools/units across the University. Reporting directly to the Director of Administration (DA), the Sr. PM provides strategic direction and management to ensure all programs are successfully launched,...

The Technical Support Engineer is responsible for the operational execution, stability, and day-to-day health of the Network, infrastructure, services, and supporting systems. This role ensures that IT systems and associated services are reliable, secure, compliant with institutional requirements, and responsive to user needs. This position is a senior individual contributor to the Network Infrastructure team, providing technical support across a diverse portfolio of services including Network Services. Success in this role requires strong operational effectiveness, broad technical depth, excellent customer engagement skills, and the ability to resolve complex technical issues.  This position includes participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Service Context Execute operational support for enterprise services in alignment with TPS and HUIT standards. Provide advanced (Tier 2 / Tier 3) technical support for Network systems, including...

Job Summary: Labor Relations Data and Reporting Analyst at Harvard leveraging strong analytical, communication, and people skills. This role plays a key role in delivering analytics to leaders responsible for strategy and decision-making. A critical aspect of this role is the focus on union data, where you will analyze union membership trends, contract metrics, and other union-related information to inform strategic decisions. Job Specific Duties: Collect, analyze, and disseminate union data across various business subject areas within Harvard. Provide support on diverse analyses and reporting services, including conducting complex statistical and quantitative analyses and presenting data through written reports, oral presentations, and graphical displays. Conducts specialized analysis of union staff data to identify trends and insights, providing actionable recommendations to HR leadership and union representatives. This position will support a variety of operations...

Job Summary: Design, plan, and implement software and data services that support and enrich research productivity and reliability. Develop software and data services with researchers to ensure that modern standards of reproducible research are kept. Job-Specific Responsibilities: This position reports to the Director of Data Science and Product Research at IQSS and, occasionally, co-reports to other Directors of IQSS depending on specific products. This position manages the design, the implementation and delivery of QA processes, programs and policies for several products at IQSS: those developed or forked by our development and IT teams. In particular, this position supports both the Dataverse open source project and its instance called Harvard Dataverse Repository. It may also support other IQSS products, as needed.  It is responsible for the execution and coordination of QA testing activities, performs troubleshooting, and identifies and reports issues to the...

The Senior Software Engineer / Architect will contribute to the strategic direction of the University's financial management systems, with a primary responsibility supporting the enterprise Oracle EBS and EPM environments. This position will report to the Director of Administrative Systems, as a part of the university central IT unit, HUIT. Lead comprehensive applications/web development for highly complex projects; typically work as part of a team to implement complex business solutions. Deliver strategic and expert coding; focus on overarching development strategy for a large, complex, multi-faceted application. May manage a number of projects simultaneously. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Participate fully in software development life cycle Lead development of technical solutions to deliver business requirements Participate in long term strategic planning for the application portfolio(s) Establish and maintain internal/external stakeholder relationships Abide by and...

Reporting to the Service Owner, CRM Consulting Services, the Salesforce CRP Tech Lead will be responsible for the development and functional expansion of the Catalog, Registration, and Payment (CRP) module of Harvard’s Learning Experience Platform (LXP). The LXP has been created to allow groups across Harvard to deliver best-of-breed online education programs. The Salesforce-based CRP module is intended to be a central service, integrated with the LXP, to allow Harvard groups that do not have their own registration and payment system to offer their LXP courses for sale, direct to individual customers or through business-to-business contracts.  The CRP recently launched with a baseline set of functionality to allow individual purchases of a core set of online courses. Even in that MVP form, the CRP ecosystem includes Salesforce Service Cloud for customer support, Experience Cloud for customer-facing functions such as registration, Certinia (FinancialForce) for financial management,...

Job-Specific Responsibilities: Harvard University is implementing an Anaplan budgeting, forecasting, and planning platform. We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead & Product Owner to own both the technical ecosystem and the product vision for Anaplan across the University—spanning architecture, integrations, security, performance, model design, and roadmap/feature prioritization. This role combines deep financial planning and analysis (FP&A) expertise with product management and consulting skills. You will partner with the Office of Financial Strategy & Planning, school and unit finance teams, IT, and external partners to design, prioritize, and deliver a scalable, intuitive, and well-governed planning platform in a highly decentralized environment. Key Responsibilities Technical Ownership & Architecture Serve as primary technical owner of Harvard’s Anaplan environment (architecture, workspaces, security, performance). Design the end-to-end technical...

Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to delivering service and technological solutions in support of teaching, learning, research and administration.  We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth in their ability to collaborate and innovate across disciplines – and depth in specific areas of expertise. HUIT offers opportunities for IT professionals to learn and work in a unique technology landscape and service-focused environment. If you are a technically proficient, nimble, user-focused, and accountable IT professional who also connects with the importance of collaborating well in a team environment, we are looking for you! The Change Manager provides dedicated, end-to-end process ownership for Harvard University Information Technology’s (HUIT) Change Management practice. Reporting to the Senior Director of IT Service Management & Operations, this role is responsible for the governance,...

Design, plan, and implement software and data services that support and enrich research productivity and reliability.  Develop software and data services with researchers to ensure that modern standards of reproducible research are kept. Job-Specific Responsibilities: The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is hiring a Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE) to support a portfolio of faculty-led research projects under the HDSI–AWS Impact Computing Alliance. This role is designed for an engineer who thrives in research settings and enjoys translating scientific goals into robust, efficient, and reproducible AI/ML systems. Rather than being tied to a single lab, the RSE will provide shared, cross-project engineering support—helping multiple teams accelerate discovery by building and optimizing machine learning infrastructure, improving performance on modern hardware (including AI accelerators), and enabling scalable execution in AWS and HPC environments. Projects may span...

The Associate Director, Payroll Operations and Shared Services reports to the Director of Tax, Payroll, and Policy and leads central payroll processing, payroll operations compliance, and consistent payroll service delivery across central and shared services environments. The role serves as the University’s senior payroll operations and compliance subject matter expert, supporting accurate, timely, controlled, and policy-compliant payroll across schools and units.  This position manages the central payroll processing and customer service teams and establishes the standards, controls, escalation paths, training, and performance measures needed to support consistent payroll service delivery across central and emerging shared services environments. As the shared services model evolves, the role is expected to assume expanded direct management and/or functional oversight responsibilities for payroll shared services.  The role partners with Human Resources, school and unit finance...

Job Summary: Under the supervision of the Office for Community Support, Non-Discrimination, Rights and Responsibilities (CSNDR) SHARE Associate Director and Senior Clinical Services Coordinator with a dotted line to the Associate Director for Administrative Operations, the Administrative Coordinator provides a wide range of administrative support to the Sexual Harassment/Assault Resources & Education (SHARE) Team to ensure smooth daily operations of the confidential clinical space. While ensuring a smooth day-to-day workflow for the SHARE offices, this position also triages a stream of ad hoc, often urgent and time sensitive, requests from multiple sources. As a critical, front-facing member of the SHARE Team, the Administrative Coordinator is expected to work in a well-organized and professional manner with discretion and sensitivity. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Staff the front desk to serve as first point of contact within the office; direct visitors to staff...

Responsible for the daily coordination of services performed by a team of skilled Fire mechanics and Electricians, providing fire safety services in facilities located within a generally defined area of the Harvard campus. Installs, maintains, inspects and tests building life-safety equipment and systems, including fire alarm panels, detection and signal devices (smoke and heat detectors, lights and audible alarms), water and chemical-based suppression systems, portable fire extinguishers, fire escapes and hydrants.  Job-Specific Responsibilities: Performs all required installation, maintenance and repair, inspection and testing of life safety equipment in accordance with applicable standards and requirements of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and the Massachusetts State Building Life Safety Codes and/or established compliance requirements of the Authority Having Jurisdiction.  Interprets and updates mechanical plans, drawings and prints as necessary.  Assists...

Reporting to the Director for Residential Dining Operations, the Senior General Manager provides leadership and oversight to the Freshman Dining Hall, Summer School Dining Program and the Fly-By/Grab & Go.  This position has primary responsibility for all operational aspects of a quality dining service program, and for providing maximum customer satisfaction to students, Freshmen Dean, faculty, affiliated departments and University guests.    Job-Specific Responsibilities: Operational Management Lead exempt management team and non-exempt service staff in the overall management of the Freshman Dining Hall, Summer School Dining Program and the Fly-By/Grab & Go; in full compliance with all food, occupational safety rules and regulations and customer service expectations.  Ensures high standards are consistently met via the implementation of all HUDS and University quality assurance policies and procedures related to food, sanitation, equipment and facility maintenance...

Job Summary: The Macklis Lab is directed toward (1) understanding molecular controls and mechanisms over neuron sub-type development, diversity, axon guidance-circuit formation, and degeneration in the cerebral cortex, and (2) applying developmental controls toward brain and spinal cord regeneration and directed differentiation for in vitro therapeutic and mechanistic screening. Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator and senior lab personnel, the laboratory technician will focus on one or more of the following areas: molecular biology, including cloning and CRISPR gene editing; mouse genetics, husbandry, behavior, neuroanatomy, and surgery; cell culture, including directed differentiation of stem cells into neurons and brain organoids; microscopy, tissue processing, CLARITY, and image analysis. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Typical Duties: 1. Perform standard tests and procedures, using developed approaches; 2. Under specific direction from...

The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL) seeks an Operations Coordinator, who will further the GPL’s mission by working closely with other members of the GPL’s operations team to advance critical functions supporting GPL staff, including hiring and training, events, and operations. They will report to the Senior Director of Operations and work closely with GPL program leads and the Director of Strategic Operations. About the Government Performance Lab: The mission of the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL) is to accelerate progress on difficult social problems by improving how state and local governments across the country deliver services to their residents. Our team collaborates closely with government innovators in developing and testing ways to create more just and effective service systems in areas including child and family wellbeing, public safety and justice, and homelessness and housing. To date, the GPL has engaged with 110...

Job Summary: The Office of Physical Resources and Planning (OPRP) provides integrated planning and design services, construction management, and facilities renewal, maintenance, and operations for the FAS campus. To support this mission, OPRP uses a range of specialized IT systems and applications to manage day-to-day operations The Area Manager of the Science Center and 20 Garden Street is responsible for directing a wide range of support functions and all activities related to building operations, building systems, maintenance, services, and budget control within the complex. The Science Center is a 350,000-square-foot facility that houses three primary academic departments: History of Science, Mathematics, and Statistics. It is also home to the Cabot Science Library; the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and Putnam Gallery Museum; the FAS Data Center; HUIT Computer Services; Adaptive Technology; Clover Restaurant; the Harvard Yard Mail Center; Lecture...

Job Summary: The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security and diplomacy, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy. The Belfer Center was named a “Center of Excellence” by the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program in 2021 – the last year of its ranking program – in recognition of the Center’s six consecutive years as the world’s #1 university-affiliated think tank. The Center has a dual mission: (1) to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, environmental policy, and international affairs intersect; and (2) to prepare future generations of leaders for these arenas.    The Fellowships and Operations Manager plays a key role in supporting the Belfer Center’s fellowship portfolio at...

Job Summary: The Executive Assistant is a unique role at Harvard FCU. Reporting to the President & CEO, the Executive Assistant role is the central connection for staff, members, and partners to connect with the President & CEO, senior leadership, and our Board of Directors (including our Supervisory Committee).  In this role you will be championing company culture, managing schedules, assisting with correspondences and presentations, planning events, and acting as the point of contact for the CEO, Senior Team, and Board of Directors.  Job-Specific Responsibilities: Executive & Senior Team Support Serve as primary point of contact and gatekeeper for the President & CEO, managing calendars, priorities and daily workflow. Plan, schedule, and manage calendars for all senior team leaders, including scheduling meetings, resolving conflicts, and ensuring appropriate prioritization. Prepare senior team members for meetings by coordinating agenda,...

Job Summary: This full-time confidential exempt position is responsible for managing data integrity and ensuring the availability of high-quality biographical data for fundraising and engagement activities, reporting and analytics. Of key importance is the ongoing work to add new records to the Alumni Affairs & Development (AA&D) CRM, Advance, in particular the import of information from the University’s Student Information System (SIS). This work enables the creation of alumni records as students graduate and creates the foundation of AA&D’s work to engage and raise funds from its alumni. Using multiple data sources and software tools, the manager will also explore, recommend, and carry out biographical data integrity projects to ensure high-quality CRM data is available as colleagues undertake alumni outreach efforts, donor solicitation plans, and reporting and analysis of outcomes to support data-driven strategies within AA&D. The Data Integrity Manager...