Master Data Analyst
*Local to Richmond, VA preferred
*This is a hybrid position with 3 days/week onsite
Description:
- The clients’ Business Integrated Solutions Division BISD is seeking a Master Data Analyst with demonstrated experience in data analytics to work as a key member of Business Analysis and Testing Support team.
- This analyst will support teams working in Agile Sprint as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle SDLC.
- Responsibilities include analyzing problems documenting business processes and data lifecycle, developing data requirements user stories, and acceptance criteria and testing.
- The client is a fast-paced organization with very high standards for work quality and efficiency.
- This position is expected to handle multiple projects and remain flexible and productive despite changing priorities and processes.
- Ongoing improvement and efficiency are a part of our culture and each team member is expected to proactively contribute to process improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points
- Develop expertise in the customers datasets and data lifecycle
- Profile source data review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
- Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
- Elicit record and manage metadata
- Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows context diagrams and data flow diagrams
- Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing
- Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
- Utilize progressive elaboration map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
- Identify and group related user stories into themes document dependencies and associated business processes
- Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
- Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
- Collaborate with staff vendors consultants and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate detail and test potential and implemented solutions
- Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives test plans and test cases and executing test cases
- Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts
- 5 years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
- Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
- Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories
- Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process
- Experience with enterprise data management
- Expertise with Microsoft Office products Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server
- Experience with reporting systems – operational data stores data warehouses data lakes data marts
- The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
Preferred Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Certified Business Analysis Professional CBAP and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner CSPO Certification
- Certified Data Management Professional CDMP
- Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Required 10 Years
- Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle, Required 5 Years
- Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology, Required 5 Years
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