Master Data Analyst

1401 E Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219

Long Term Contract

$50 per hour W2

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

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: 7 Years

· Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

· Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle

· Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology

· Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories

· Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development

· Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq)

· Experience with large, multi-module systems

· Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)

· Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)

· Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

· Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking

· Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete

· Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or Certified Data Professional (CDP)

· Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certificationdip

Job Type: Contract

Compensation package:

• 1099 contract

Experience level:

• 10 years
• 11 years
• 8 years
• 9 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person