Business Data Analyst

Immediate need for a talented Business Data Analyst. This is a 06-12 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Ann Arbor, MI(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-29746

Pay Range: $53 - $55/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Requirements & Definition
• Lead discovery with business and technical stakeholders to understand data use cases, decision drivers, and analytical outcomes.
• Translate business needs into data‑focused requirements, including source systems, grain, key dimensions, metrics, calculation logic, and data quality expectations.
• Produce clear, executable Jira tickets and user stories for data pipelines, transformations, models, views, and datasets.
• Define acceptance criteria covering data correctness, completeness, timeliness, and usability.
• Maintain durable documentation such as data definitions, process flows, assumptions, and decision logs.
• Execution & Delivery Support
• Actively support Data Engineers during build and test phases by answering requirement and business‑logic questions in real time.
• Help resolve data ambiguity, edge cases, and scope gaps uncovered during implementation.
• Partner with TDMs to support sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery readiness for data workstreams.
• Participate in standups, planning sessions, and retrospectives as a core delivery team member.
• Collaboration & Platform Alignment
• Partner with Solution Architects to ensure requirements align with platform standards, architectural patterns, and long‑term scalability goals.
• Coordinate across upstream source teams and downstream consumer teams (BI, analytics, ML, operations) to surface dependencies and impacts early.
• Help ensure data solutions preserve business intent while fitting within established Data Platform and governance frameworks.
• Continuous Improvement & Enablement
• Improve consistency and quality of data tickets, documentation, and handoffs to reduce rework and clarifying cycles.
• Contribute to retrospectives and process reviews to strengthen data delivery patterns and BA practice maturity.
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and reuse within data discovery and documentation processes.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key skills; Business Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Data Engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5 years of experience in business analysis, data analysis, or delivery roles supporting technical teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and the data delivery lifecycle (ingest → transform → serve).
• Hands‑on experience working with Data Engineering and Platform teams.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, data modeling or diagramming tools (Visio/Lucidchart), and analytics or observability tools (e.g., Power BI, Splunk, Grafana).
• What Sets You Apart
• Ability to reason about data from business outcome → metric → data requirement.
• Comfort operating in technically complex environments without needing to write production code.
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to data detail and downstream impacts.
• Proven ability to create clarity, alignment, and momentum across cross‑functional data teams.
• Passion for continuous improvement and building durable, scalable data solutions.

Our client is a leading IT Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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