Senior Business Analyst Data Platform & Analytics ID 79704 Job Title Senior Business Analyst Data Platform & Analytics Category Technology Employment Type

This position is an experienced and strategic Business Analyst to join the Data Platform & Analytics team. This role blends business analysis, light product management, and Scrum facilitation responsibilities to drive the successful delivery of enterprise-wide data products and platform capabilities. Incumbent works at the intersection of business needs and technical execution—translating goals into actionable requirements, helping prioritize delivery, and ensuring the scalable evolution of a modern, cloud-native data platform, and organizational objectives.

Essential Functions And Duties

• Engage business users, data engineers, architects, and BI developers to gather, define, and refine detailed business and technical requirements across diverse initiatives.
• Translate complex business problems into scalable data solutions—spanning ingestion pipelines, curated data layers, and reporting or analytical models.
• Act as a proxy Product Owner, defining product scope, writing epics and user stories, and prioritizing features and enhancements based on stakeholder impact and technical feasibility.
• Serve as a Scrum Master or Agile Lead, facilitating sprint ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), tracking team velocity, and managing work in Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Lead discovery and requirements workshops with stakeholders across finance, operations, supply chain, commercial, and other enterprise teams.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including process flows, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, and user training materials.
• Validate development work through UAT coordination, data testing, and QA, ensuring the final deliverables meet business intent.
• Analyze and troubleshoot data issues using SQL and reporting tools to support quality assurance and root cause analysis.
• Contribute to platform adoption and maturity by supporting change management activities and self-service enablement initiatives.
• Collaborate with platform leadership on roadmap planning, backlog grooming, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Adheres specifically to all company policies and procedures, Federal and State regulations, and laws.
• Display dedication to position responsibilities and achieve assigned goals and objectives.
• Always represent the Company in a professional manner and appearance.
• Understand and internalize the Company’s purpose. Display loyalty to the Company and its organizational values.
• Display enthusiasm and dedication to learning how to be more effective on the job and share knowledge with others.
• Work effectively with co-workers, internal and external customers, and others by sharing ideas in a constructive and positive manner; listen to and objectively consider ideas and suggestions from others; keep commitments; keep others informed of work progress, timetables, and issues; address problems and issues constructively to find mutually acceptable and practical business solutions; address others by name, title, or other respectful identifiers, and respect the diversity of our workforce in actions, words, and deeds.
• Comply with the policies and procedures stated in the Injury and Illness Prevention Program by always working in a safe manner and immediately reporting any injury, safety hazard, or program violation.
• Ensure conduct is consistent with all Compliance Program Policies and procedures when engaging in any activity on the company's behalf. Immediately report any concerns or violations.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Preferred Education

Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field of study or four (4) years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
  
  

Required Experience

• Minimum seven (7) years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or hybrid BA/PM in a data engineering, analytics, or enterprise platform environment [eleven (11) years for non-degreed candidates].
• Demonstrated experience acting as a Product Owner or working closely with product managers and delivery teams to ship platform features or data capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of Databricks and modern ELT/ETL practices in a cloud-native environment.
• Advanced proficiency with SQL for data exploration, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Fivetran, dbt, Azure Data Factory, or other data pipeline tools.
• Deep understanding of Agile delivery frameworks and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Experience working with source system data from platforms like SAP, Salesforce, or Workday, including understanding upstream business processes.
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing or contributing to the delivery of internal data products, self-service analytics environments, or data marketplaces.
• Familiarity with medallion architecture, delta tables, streaming vs. batch pipelines, and Unity Catalog.
• Understanding of data governance, quality frameworks, and metadata management best practices.
• Background in business domains such as finance, supply chain, customer operations, or commercial strategy.
  
  

Required Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messages for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead meetings and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Self-starter with excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and a bias toward action.
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities and fast-paced delivery environments.
  
  

Professional Certification

• CSPO, CAP, CSBA, PMI-PBA or other business analyst certifications a plus