Business Analyst (Data Quality)

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Business Analyst (Data Quality) for a contract assignment with one of our premier Research and Advisory services clients in Stamford CT, Irving, TX or Ft. Myers, FL .

Responsibilities :

The firm has an exciting career opportunities for a Business Analyst within the Data Strategy and Enablement group. This role will provide support for business processes (including but not limited to Enterprise, Account and Person data management) with a focus on Government, Public Sector and Education.

• Drive data quality initiatives on improving the accuracy of our Government, Public Sector and Education account data that's leveraged in critical business processes throughout the enterprise with focus on organization hierarchy structures.
• Collaborate across business and technical teams, both on site and offshore, to create business deliverables such as Data flow diagrams, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, User Stories and User Acceptance Tests.
• Obtain understanding of relevant business area(s), technical options, limitations, costs and risks to communicate tradeoffs and recommend solutions or suggest alternatives to proposed solutions to shape requirements.
• Independently drive critical data workshops with business and IT stakeholders to develop requirements and execution process while managing dependencies across teams.
• Review data records / attributes on a periodic basis and to ensure data quality and curate data insights that will ultimately improve the transparency and value of data across the firm.
• Ensure quality through adherence to and supporting processes and procedures, including the maintenance of documentation on shared file systems.
• Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted; define and execute test cases.
• Provide support to other business analysts, business process owners and project managers to help drive business initiatives.

Required Skills :

• 4-6+ years of experience as a Business / Data Analyst; prior experience in working in Data Warehouse, Master Data Management, Analytics environment a plus.
• Knowledge of Government / Public sector organizations, hierarchies and structure required.
• Expert level communication with both technical and non-technical personnel, both oral and written.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills including ability to clearly and concisely gather, interpret, analyze and document Business Process, User and Data Functional requirements in a structured way.
• bility to breakdown complex business problems and workflows into meaningful components that are understandable by various levels.
• Well versed with in utilizing tools such MS Excel, MS Word, Google Suite, MS Visio, Lucid Chart, JIRA, Confluence
• dvanced SQL Skills Required.
• Data governance experience is a strong consideration.

Preferred Skills :

• Knowledge of Education organizations, hierarchies and structure a plus.
• Basic understanding of data analysis tools and techniques is a plus.
• Experience with business intelligence and data visualization systems is a plus (Tableau, Power BI).

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