Business Analyst

Role: Business Analyst


Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid - 2 days(Tuesdays and Thursdays) remote and 3 days on-site)


Duration: Long Term

Job Description


Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective. Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.


Additional job details and special considerations


Strong experience as a Business/Data Analyst performing requirements elicitation, business process analysis, data profiling, source-to-target mapping, data validation, and complex SQL analysis in large enterprise or government environments. Proven ability to document BRDs, functional requirements, business rules, KPIs, data dictionaries, and data lineage while collaborating with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and reporting teams throughout the SDLC. Experience supporting data governance, gap analysis, UAT, and enterprise reporting/analytics initiatives with strong communication and facilitation skills


Minimum Requirements:


Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with strong written and verbal communication skills, along with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst / Business Data Analyst, gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements in an enterprise IT environment, including state government or large enterprise settings following formal SDLC processes.
• 8+ years of experience analyzing and documenting business processes, including current-state (As-Is) and future-state (To-Be) process flows and data flow diagrams.
• 8+ years of experience performing data analysis and documentation, including data profiling, validation, and documenting data elements, definitions, and business rules.
• 8+ years of extensive hands-on experience with SQL, including complex queries, joins, aggregations, data validation, analysis, and ad hoc investigations directly against relational databases.
• 8+ years of experience extensively engaging with business stakeholders to elicit, clarify, and validate requirements through workshops, interviews, and facilitated sessions.
• 8+ years of experience translating business requirements into functional requirements, data requirements documents, and Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) for technical teams.
• 8+ years of experience defining and documenting business measures, metrics, and KPIs, and collaborating with reporting/analytics teams to establish report specifications and data sourcing requirements.
• 8+ years of experience performing gap analysis between current business processes/data and desired future-state outcomes.
• 8+ years of experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including developing test scenarios and test cases based on documented business requirements.