Technical Business Analyst

Technical Business Analyst-(Contract 1099)

At DI, we provide Data & Analytics expertise to drive measurable business outcomes, often solving complex business problems for our clients. Our data analytics advisory services enable our customers to transform data into insights by driving a culture of empowerment and ownership of results. Our team consists of highly motivated individuals passionate about learning, understanding, collaborating, and intellectually curious.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Technical Business Analyst with a passion for data and technology to join our team on a contract engagement. In this role you will serve as the connective tissue across concurrent data platform and emerging technology workstreams — facilitating discovery, translating stakeholder requirements into actionable artifacts, and ensuring architectural decisions made in one workstream are properly reflected in others.

Responsibilities

• Lead structured discovery workshops with client engineering and product leadership to elicit, document, and validate business and technical requirements across data platform and technology workstreams.
• Compile and maintain detailed requirements matrices documenting data types, system interfaces, processing frequencies, and dependency classifications across source systems and downstream consumers.
• Own scope tracking and MVP boundary management — document, log, and protect agreed scope as it is confirmed with client stakeholders, ensuring any changes are captured through formal change control processes.
• Consolidate and maintain business glossaries, metadata standards documentation, and data governance artifacts, coordinating with architects and data leads to ensure consistency and readiness for client handoff.
• Act as the coordination bridge across concurrent workstreams, ensuring that data contracts, canonical definitions, and platform architecture decisions are reflected consistently across all active workstreams.
• Facilitate technical feasibility workshops, track open questions and unresolved dependencies, and escalate risks to the project lead in a timely manner.
• Translate complex technical architecture concepts into clear written requirements, functional specifications, and interaction models that can be validated by both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Support the Program Manager in maintaining the decision log, action item tracker, risk register, and stakeholder communication cadence across all active workstreams.
• Produce clear, structured written artifacts throughout the engagement — requirements documents, workshop summaries, dependency logs, and scope protection records — that are used directly in client deliverables.
• Assist with light project management responsibilities including milestone tracking, status reporting, and coordination of cross-team dependencies to keep delivery on schedule.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst or requirements analyst on data, analytics, or technology platform engagements, preferably within a consulting or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate structured discovery workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders and produce clear, usable requirements artifacts from those sessions.
• Experience with AWS data platform engagements preferred — familiarity with cloud data architecture concepts such as medallion lakehouse patterns, data governance frameworks, metadata management, and data quality practices is a strong plus.
• Exposure to AWS services (S3, Glue, Redshift, DataZone, Lake Formation) in a project context is preferred; hands-on implementation experience is not required but direct AWS familiarity strengthens the candidate's ability to contribute from day one.
• Light project management experience including milestone tracking, action item management, status reporting, and dependency coordination across multi-workstream engagements.
• Strong written communication skills with a proven ability to produce structured documentation — requirements documents, functional specifications, scope logs, and workshop summaries — suitable for direct use in client deliverables.
• Ability to manage context across multiple concurrent workstreams and serve as an information bridge between separate technical teams working on related but distinct problems.
• Comfortable operating in a Phase 0 or architecture-and-planning engagement mode — producing planning and requirements artifacts rather than delivering production systems.
• Familiarity with emerging technology domains such as edge computing, IoT, or AI/ML systems is a plus but not required.
• Excellent stakeholder management and organizational skills, with the ability to track open questions, decisions, and dependencies across a fast-moving consulting engagement.

If you are a driven Technical Business Analyst with strong data platform experience, a talent for translating complex technical problems into clear requirements, and the organizational discipline to keep multiple workstreams aligned and on track, we invite you to apply.

Work Environment:

• Remote work from home.
• Hours of work and days are generally Monday through Friday. Specific business hours will depend on client needs.

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• The person in this position must occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, library stacks, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and printer.
• The person in this position frequently communicates with clients and coworkers. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

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