What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at PY DATA, INC.?
Multiple Business Analyst
Hybrid Westlake, TX or North Carolina or Smithfield RI or Merrimack, MA or Boston, MA
6 months
Business Analyst Profile
Overall need: Approximately 7 BAs, with different allocations across trading, reporting, UI, backend, API/external transmissions, and other areas.
Core skills across the BA population
- Strong data analysis and data fluency
- Data lineage and data mapping
- Understanding of systems of record and system changes
- Translating data/system findings into clear business and functional requirements
- Experience with data flows, APIs, and business logic
- Ability to partner closely with engineering and technical teams
- Strong SQL capability
- Ability to analyze current-state environments and identify gaps
- Strong communication and requirements documentation
Trading-focused BAs
- Financial services/trading experience is preferred but not required
- Strong technical aptitude; systems analyst background is a plus
- Understanding of regulatory environments
- Data lineage/mapping experience
- Ability to work through complex systems and dependencies
- Comfortable going deep technically and then translating findings for business stakeholders
Reporting-focused BAs
- 1 2 resources may specifically focus on reporting
- Strong data skills plus ability to understand reporting/user needs and insights
- Experience with Oracle databases
- Power BI
- Adobe Analytics
- SQL
Important secondary skill: discovery/networking
The team emphasized that candidates need to be:
- Curious and naturally investigative
- Comfortable reaching out across the organization to find answers
- Strong relationship builders
- Comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns
- Able to independently discover information rather than waiting for requirements to be handed to them
Salary : $45