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.