Data Governance & Analytics Business Analyst

Datamatics Technologies

Dubai

On-site

AED 180,000 - 320,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Datamatics Technologies is seeking a Business Analyst in Dubai to collaborate with customer stakeholders and project teams. You will translate business requirements into actionable functional requirements for data and analytics, supporting data catalogue, data modelling, remediation, dashboards, KPI definitions, and semantic mapping.

The role bridges business and technical teams, ensuring ownership, glossary content, and validation requirements align with business objectives.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, or related field.
4-7 years of experience as a Business Analyst in data, analytics, governance, or digital transformation projects.
Proven experience in gathering requirements and stakeholder management.
Experience with data governance, cataloguing, metadata, data quality, or data management initiatives.
Strong understanding of business glossary, data ownership, classification, CDEs, KPIs, and data definitions.
Ability to translate business requirements into clear technical and functional specs.
Excellent analytical, documentation, communication, and presentation skills.
Experience preparing BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process flows, and UAT documentation.

Responsibilities

Engage with customer stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document business requirements.
Define and maintain business terms, definitions, and rules.
Identify Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and their significance.
Facilitate data ownership, stewardship, and accountability.
Support data classification and governance scope.
Develop and maintain business glossaries with consistent terminology.
Define semantic mappings between business concepts and data elements.
Gather KPI definitions, calculation logic, and reporting requirements.
Translate requirements into functional specs and user stories for technical teams.
Collaborate with data engineers, data architects, BI developers to implement requirements.
Validate data catalogue and metadata with business context.
Participate in data modelling discussions and data remediation initiatives.
Review dashboards to ensure KPI accuracy and definitions.
Coordinate stakeholder reviews, walkthroughs, and sign-offs.
Prepare BRDs/FRDs and acceptance criteria; support UAT; maintain traceability.