Responsibilities:
• Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and data flows
• 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
• Conduct data attribute mapping back to the data source
• 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
• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
Qualifications
Required:
• 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
• 5+ year of experience writing complex queries to analyze data
• 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)
• 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:
• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
• Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete