Business Analyst - Heavy Data focus

W2 Business Analyst – Heavy Data Focus McLean VA- onsite 3 days per week 6 month contract (CTH) Start/End Dates: 3/11/2025 - 9/10/2025 Tax Work Location: Headquarters 1 Job Title: Information Technology - IT Business Analyst Senior Location: Hybrid - Tuesday through Thursday - McLean, VA Assignment Type: Contract to Hire Duration: Opportunity for conversion following an initial 3-6 month Must Have Qualifications: Must have a strong analytical mindset, be comfortable taking the initiative, and be a proactive problem solver. The ideal candidate would be a quick learner who is motivated to hit the ground running. A solid understanding of querying and/or databases is required - to the extent that they must able to apply their own experience and knowledge to work with business and/or technical needs. Prior experience working with developers and/or technical teams is required. Must be proficient with MS Office Suite (specifically Excel, PowerPoint, and/or Word). Excellent written and verbal communication is key. Demonstrated experience collaborating and communicating effectively across various business areas, levels of experience and technical literacies is required. Schedule: Some flexibility will be required to accommodate occasional after hours and/or weekend support - this time would be comped throughout the pay period and would not equate to overtime. Shortlisting Deadline: 1/31 Supplier Vetting Questions: 1) Please describe a situation where you were required to coordinate and communicate effectively across multiple audiences. Who were the audiences? What was your approach? Looking back, what would you do differently? 2) Please describe a situation where you were required to address come confusion and/or miscommunication when working with a technical team and/or audience. What was the situation? What was your approach to resolving the issue? 3) Please describe your personal "tool-kit" for working effectively with stakeholders. What does your tool-kit include & how has it helped you? Please provide specific examples from your recent experience. Assists the Product Owner by updating mapping documents, business models and communicating with stakeholders regarding prioritized user-stories and write acceptance criteria in conjunction with product team for each sprint, making sure each story aligns to our Objectives and Key Results. Analyze complex data sets in JSON and XML formats to identify trends, patterns, and insights that drive business strategy and decision-making. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical solutions. Develop and maintain organized data repositories, ensuring data integrity and accessibility for analysis. Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency enhancements, proposing actionable solutions based on data analysis. Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks and deadlines to ensure timely completion of deliverables. Maintain clear and concise mapping documentation of analysis processes, methodologies, and findings for future reference. Enjoys troubleshooting a product/data questions. Works as a facilitator in meetings to bring tech and non-tech partners together to innovate and tackle problems Use applications in various Non-production environments to test and demo product features Understands and proactively utilizes Modern Delivery practices. Actively participates in all agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, refinement sessions, demo's, etc.) Actively uses and is passionate about available technology to help build product. Applications include JIRA, Excel for pivot tables/data analytics, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio Justinmind wireframes Understands/quickly learns the basic tenets of credit and underwriting technology at Freddie Mac Works with technical delivery team members and Single-Family Operations to define technical requirements in acceptable criteria Comfortable being responsible to create Business Operational Readiness documentation to support all releases. Qualifications: 5-7 years of financial services work experience, preferably combined with agile software development Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience Mortgage related experience preferred, and moderate to strong MS Office and Excel data analytics skills Experience working with and using Agile/Scrum methodology with active participation in Agile ceremonies. Certification from Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or Scrum Alliance preferred but not required Strong presentation skills, including ability to facilitate meetings and work across Product teams Comfortable learning, using and updating change control documentation per Change Management policies, procedures & processes Support team in development process by working to define and test requirements based on product knowledge Strong proficiency in data entities in context of SQL, JSON/XSD schemas, numeric, strings, enumerated, date and timestamps. Ability to understand and document Data Relationships ( such as one to many, many to many etc.),cardinalities of relationships, primary unique keys, constraints for data attributes of different types, understanding of NULL data, defaulting of data Basic querying data skill in both relational and NoSQL databases (preferably Mongo DB) using database UI Client applications (e.g. Rapid SQL or any other, Compass for MongoDB database or similar). Perform as an active contributor throughout Product development by supporting both the Product Owner and developers Ability to partner across the Freddie Mac organization to support Product team goals Syntricate Technologies