Contract Length: 12 months with the possibility of extending based on performance.
Local candidate only or candidates willing to drive to client site.
HYBRID – Required to be in-person 1 or 2 days a week at the Richmond, VA location)
**local candidates strongly preferred due to onsite requirement
**candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA occasionally
**candidate must have experience working in data management as an analyst
Describe the candidate’s working experience with data as a master data analyst
The client’s 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. 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 userstories 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

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
• 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:

• 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/Desired Skills
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
Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories. Required
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development. Required
Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq). Required
Experience with large, multi-module systems. Required
Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server). Required
Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM). Required
Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers. Required
Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking. Desired
Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete. Desired
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or Certified Data Professional (CDP). Highly desired
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification. Desired