Senior Business Data Analyst – SQL & Enterprise Analytics

Senior Business Data Analyst - SQL & Enterprise Analytics

Location:Austin TX
Work Arrangement:Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote

Need locals no relocation

Experience:8 Years
Interview:Microsoft Teams

Position Overview

The client is seeking a highly experienced Senior Business Data Analyst to support complex enterprise technology data and reporting initiatives within a large public-sector environment.

This is a hybrid Business Analyst Data Analyst position. The successful candidate must be equally comfortable leading requirements discussions with business stakeholders and working hands-on with complex SQL data profiling validation source-to-target mapping business rules KPIs and data lineage.

This is not a traditional Business Analyst position focused primarily on meetings and documentation. Strong hands-on SQL and data analysis experience are core requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation through stakeholder interviews workshops and facilitated sessions.
• Analyze and document complex business and data requirements.
• Develop detailed Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and functional/data requirements for technical teams.
• Perform hands-on data analysis using advanced SQL.
• Profile and validate large datasets and investigate data-quality issues.
• Perform source-to-target mapping and document data transformations.
• Define data elements definitions business rules and data dictionaries.
• Document data lineage and support enterprise data-governance initiatives.
• Analyze and document current-state (as-is) and future-state (to-be) business processes.
• Create process flows and data-flow diagrams.
• Perform gap analysis between existing processes/data and desired future-state outcomes.
• Define business measures metrics and KPIs.
• Partner with reporting and analytics teams to establish reporting specifications and data-source requirements.
• Support User Acceptance Testing including developing test scenarios and test cases from documented requirements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders data engineers architects application teams and reporting teams throughout the SDLC.

Critical Required Qualifications

• 8 years of Business Analyst / Business Data Analyst experience within enterprise IT environments.
• 8 years of hands-on SQL experience including complex queries joins aggregations validation and ad hoc data investigation.
• 8 years of data analysis including profiling validation data definitions and business-rule documentation.
• 8 years of requirements gathering and documentation.
• 8 years analyzing and documenting business processes including as-is/to-be process flows and data-flow diagrams.
• 8 years translating requirements into BRDs and functional/data requirements.
• 8 years defining business metrics measures and KPIs.
• 8 years performing business and data gap analysis.
• 8 years supporting UAT including test-case and test-scenario development.
• Experience working within formal enterprise SDLC processes.
• Bachelors degree in Business Administration Information Systems or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent written verbal facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.

What Were Really Looking For

The strongest candidate will demonstrate all three areas:

Business Analysis Hands-On Data Analysis Advanced SQL

Candidates should be able to move comfortably from a requirements workshop into the datawriting SQL to investigate an issue validating the results documenting business rules and lineage and then translating those findings into requirements that engineering and reporting teams can implement.

Experience withinTexas state government another public-sector organization or a large enterprise environmentfollowing formal SDLC processes would be particularly valuable.

Preferred Experience

• Enterprise data governance
• Source-to-target mapping
• Data lineage
• Data dictionaries
• Enterprise reporting and analytics
• Data-quality initiatives
• Process reengineering
• Cost/benefit and ROI analysis
• Buy-vs.-build analysis
• Project management experience
• PMP certificationis a plus.

Work Location

Candidates must already belocal to the Austin Texas area. The expected schedule isthree days onsite and two days remote with Tuesdays and Thursdays remote. Candidates currently outside Texas who plan to relocate should not be submitted

Required Skills:

SQLData AnalysisBRDsBusiness Analysis