Business Analyst

Location: Kansas City, MO

On-site Flexibility: On-site

Contract Details:

• Position Type: Contract
• Duration: 6 months
• Hours Per Day: 8.00 Hours Per Week: 40.00

The Technology Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in the client's data transformation journey. This role focuses on bridging the gap between business priorities and technical implementation across data platforms, pipelines, and governance solutions. Partnering with Product Owners and delivery teams, the analyst will refine business stories into actionable technical requirements, enabling delivery of high-value, scalable data products. The position requires exceptional communication, technical fluency, and the ability to navigate complex business and IT landscapes to create alignment across stakeholders.

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, product owners, and technical delivery teams, translating concepts into language that is easily understood by both parties.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of your team's technical systems and your business stakeholders' processes.
• Elicit user and technical requirements for new initiatives and ad hoc requests from multiple internal business practices.
• Refine business requirements into detailed technical requirements and acceptance criteria for data pipelines, platform capabilities, and governance tooling.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to align requirements with platform standards, data mesh principles, and compliance needs.
• Support the design of CI/CD pipelines, observability practices, and data transformation workflows.
• Ensure requirements support data-as-a-product and platform-as-a-product principles (scalability, reusability, security, compliance).
• Ensure projects stay on track towards deliverable commitments, occasionally completing trade-off analysis to influence product decisions.
• Apply critical thinking to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively.

• Bachelor's degree or applicable years of experience in lieu of a degree

• Minimum 4 years of technical business analysis experience

• Knowledge of agile development methodology and practices
• Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence or other agile software tools
• Ability to write technical acceptance criteria and partner closely with both product owners and engineers
• Familiarity with data platforms, data governance, and modern data stack tooling such as GCP, Confluent, Kafka, and Apigee
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Fund

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Job Number: 26-03850