IT Business Analyst Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

About This Role

This role will support global technology initiatives for enterprise data platforms, acting as a critical liaison between business stakeholders, data product owners, and IT delivery teams. The Business Analyst will translate analytical and data-driven business needs into scalable, high-quality data solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong Agile/Scrum and DevOps experience, along with deep exposure to data and analytics initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead for data and analytics initiatives, facilitating ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, data consumers, and product owners to elicit, analyze, document, and validate data and analytics requirements
• Lead stakeholder engagement to support data solution definition, prioritization, and delivery planning across analytics, reporting, and data platform initiatives
• Translate business needs into data-centric functional and non-functional requirements, including user stories and acceptance criteria for EDW, Data Fabric, and Advanced Analytics
• Collaborate with data architects, data engineers, and analytics teams to ensure alignment between business objectives, data models, pipelines, and analytics outputs
• Support initiatives related to data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, and master/reference data
• Enable analytics use cases across finance and project-based business domains, including performance management, forecasting, and operational insights
• Support estimation, roadmap planning, and backlog management for data and analytics products
• Work closely with DevOps and platform teams to support CI/CD for data pipelines, release planning, and deployment activities
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise data standards, security, and compliance requirements
• Facilitate clear communication between business, analytics, and technical teams in a distributed delivery model

Requirements

• Proven experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting data, analytics, or data platform initiatives in an agile environment
• Strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile delivery frameworks, and DevOps practices
• Hands-on experience working with Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW), Data integration / data fabric concepts, BI, reporting, or advanced analytics solutions
• Experience supporting finance and project-based business analytics
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex business questions into actionable data and analytics requirements
• Demonstrated ability to work with distributed global teams across multiple regions and time zones
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting data, analytics, or data platform initiatives in an agile environment

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in contract-to-hire roles or similar transition models
• Scrum Master or Agile certification (CSM, SAFe, or equivalent)
• Experience working in large, matrixed or global organizations

Skills

* Required skills