Business Data Analyst

This is a 12-month contract position based in Austin, Texas, available on a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). You will support enterprise business and data analysis initiatives, with a focus on requirements gathering, business-process analysis, data analysis, SQL, documentation, reporting, and user acceptance testing throughout the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities Gather and analyze business requirements through stakeholder meetings, workshops, and interviews. Create business requirement documents (BRDs), functional requirements, business rules, process flows, and data-flow documentation. Perform data profiling, validation, source-to-target mapping, and complex SQL analysis. Define and document KPIs, metrics, data dictionaries, and data lineage. Perform business and data gap analysis. Support data governance, reporting, and analytics initiatives. Develop user acceptance testing scenarios and test cases based on business requirements. Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and reporting teams. Qualifications Required 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Data Analyst in enterprise IT or government environments. 8+ years of experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements within formal SDLC processes. 8+ years of experience with business-process analysis, including current-state (as-is) and future-state (to-be) process flows. Strong experience in data profiling, validation, data elements, and business rules documentation. Extensive hands-on experience with complex SQL, including joins, aggregations, and data validation. Strong stakeholder-management and requirements-elicitation skills. Experience creating business requirement documents and functional/data requirements documents. Experience defining KPIs, metrics, and reporting requirements. Experience performing gap analysis.Experience supporting user acceptance testing and test-case development. Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Preferred Experience working with an HHS agency or healthcare environment. PMP certification. Project management experience. Experience working in large government or enterprise environments. #J-18808-Ljbffr