Senior Business Data Analyst (Azure)

Job Description

We are looking for a highly analytical and detail-oriented Technical Business Analyst to join our Data Engineering team. This role is essential in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions, ensuring that data-driven initiatives are accurately scoped, documented, and delivered. The client is in the middle of a data center migration to Azure and a home grown ecosystem with many integration issues. The ideal candidate will be a self starter that is able to take the design, break it down into development stories, create a ticket, and follow through the process in a data engineering workflow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit and document detailed business and technical requirements. Translate business needs into clear, actionable specifications for data engineering teams.

• Workflow & Process Diagramming: Create and maintain process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, and system interaction models. Visualize current and future state workflows to support solution design and gap analysis.

• Business Rules Documentation: Identify and document business rules governing data processing, transformation, and validation. Ensure rules are clearly communicated and traceable throughout the project lifecycle.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a liaison between business and technical stakeholders, developers, and QA testers. Provide clarification and support throughout the design, development, and testing phases. Builds strong, collaborative relationships with team members and stakeholders.

• Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing Support: Assist in reviewing test cases and validating implementation against requirements. Participate in defect triage and resolution discussions.

• Project Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation including user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices. Ensure documentation is version-controlled and accessible to relevant teams.

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Skills and Requirements

• 5-8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst in IT or data engineering projects.

• Strong understanding of data concepts including ETL, data warehousing, and data governance.

• Proficiency in diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart, BPMN).

• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience working in Agile, Waterfall or hybrid project environments is a plus. • Familiarity with SQL and data modeling concepts including Azure MySQL and CosmoDB.

• Familiarity with Cloud storage models including DataLake and Blob storage.

• Experience with Cloud Data Platforms (e.g., Mainly Azure but also familiar with AWS and GCP).

• Knowledge of data privacy and compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).