Sr. Technical Business Analyst

The BA owns requirements gathering, translates business needs into technical specifications, maintains data lineage and technical design documentation, and drives execution discipline across Agile delivery —tracking JIRA status, coordinating releases, and closing the loop on meeting follow-ups. This is not a passive documentation role —the Technical BA is expected to challenge ambiguous requirements, identify gaps between what business asked for and what engineering built, and escalate risk early.

Technical Business Analyst
The Technical Business Analyst acts as the connective tissue between business stakeholders, data governance, and engineering teams on Data Management initiatives. The BA owns requirements gathering, translates business needs into technical specifications, maintains data lineage and technical design documentation, and drives execution discipline across Agile delivery —tracking JIRA status, coordinating releases, and closing the loop on meeting follow-ups.

This is a regulated environment, so the role also carries responsibility for ensuring requirements and documentation meet audit and compliance standards. This is not a passive documentation role —the Technical BA is expected to challenge ambiguous requirements, identify gaps between what business asked for and what engineering built, and escalate risk early.
Responsibilities
Requirements & Documentation

• Lead requirements gathering sessions with business and technical stakeholders for Data Management projects
• Document clear Business Requirements with acceptance criteria in BRDs or on JIRA tickets
• Co-author Technical Design Documents, ensuring they trace back to approved business requirements
• Maintain Data Lineage documentation (source-to-target mapping, transformation logic, ownership) sufficient to withstand audit/regulatory review
• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix linking business asks? BRDs/JIRA tickets? Technical design? Test cases

Delivery & Coordination

• Serve as a primary liaison between business users and the data management team
• Schedule and facilitate requirements sessions, design reviews, and status meetings;capture meeting minutes and drive action items to closure
• Track project and task progress across the delivery lifecycle;proactively flag slippage, scope creep, or unresolved dependencies
• Create, groom, and track JIRA tickets (epics/stories/tasks);ensure status accuracy for leadership reporting
• Assist Project Managers in coordinating planned releases, stakeholder announcements, and post-release validation

Governance & Quality

• Ensure technical designs fully satisfy documented business requirements before sign-off (gatekeeping function, not just facilitation)
• Support data governance/stewardship projects, including source-of-truth lineage, metadata documentation, and data quality issue triage
• Support audit and compliance requests by producing accurate, current lineage and requirements artifacts on demand
• Identify and escalate risks, ambiguous requirements, or conflicting stakeholder asks before they become delivery problems

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Project Managers to establish project priorities and guide delivery
• Manage competing priorities across multiple concurrent projects/stakeholders without dropping commitments
• Communicate status, risks, and blockers clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership

Required Qualifications

• 5–8 years working as a Technical BA
• 4+ years working within Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum/Kanban)
• 2–4+ years hands-on SQL experience (Oracle and SQL Server required;MongoDB or other NoSQL a plus)
• 4+ years of data analysis, profiling, and troubleshooting experience —able to independently query and validate data, not just describe it
• 4+ years writing Business Requirement, Technical Design, and Data Lineage documentation
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business asks into precise technical requirements
• Strong meeting facilitation skills —able to drive a room of stakeholders with conflicting priorities to a decision
• Proven multi-tasking across concurrent projects with competing deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including comfort presenting to senior stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated industry (utilities, financial services, insurance, healthcare) with attendant audit/compliance documentation requirements
• Previous experience with data governance or data stewardship initiatives
• Exposure to Ab Initio MDM is a big plus
• JIRA/Confluence administration-level proficiency
• Prior experience supporting production incident/problem management processes

Success Metrics
3 months:

• Owns requirements intake for one or more active workstream
• BRD and lineage documentation templates adopted
• JIRA backlog for owned areas is accurate and reflective of current status

6 months:

• Demonstrated one or more instances of catching a requirements/design mismatch before it reaches production
• Release coordination process running with minimal escalations
• Stakeholders across business and engineering report the BA as a reliable single point of contact