Business Analyst 3

Aquent (United States); Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent partners with a global technology leader to optimize a critical operational platform, delivering data-driven insights and scalable Power BI dashboards. You will translate business needs into precise system requirements and support governance, testing, and rollout across regions.

Join a mission-critical environment focused on reliability, data quality, and continuous improvement of commissioning workflows that impact global infrastructure projects.

Qualifications

• Strong Power BI and analytics development experience.
• Proven business systems/requirements translation skills, including gathering stakeholder needs and translating them into documented business, system, or reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide systems and analytics support for the commissioning platform used by business and partner teams.
• Translate field and regional needs into clear platform specifications, requirements, and user stories.
• Maintain data model and business rules to ensure reliable Power BI dashboards and reports.
• Support governance meetings, steering committees, and stakeholder engagement.
• Triage and prioritize platform enhancement requests, tracking status and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate regional testing, prepare training materials, and support adoption.
• Collaborate with business, regional leads, quality, and engineering to align workflows.
• Assist data quality efforts, including data taxonomy alignment and QA checks.
• Develop reporting outputs and leadership dashboards from platform data.

Skills

Power BI

Analytics development

Requirements translation

Job description

Aquent is partnering with a global technology leader renowned for pioneering advancements that shape the future of digital infrastructure. This organization is at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower businesses and individuals worldwide. Joining this team means contributing to a mission-critical environment where your expertise directly impacts the reliability and efficiency of foundational technology services.

Are you a highly analytical and detail-oriented professional with a passion for optimizing business processes and data-driven insights? We are seeking a talented individual to join a dynamic team and play a pivotal role in enhancing a critical operational platform. In this exciting opportunity, you will be instrumental in translating complex business needs into actionable system requirements, ensuring seamless functionality, and driving continuous improvement for essential commissioning workflows. Your contributions will directly influence data quality, reporting accuracy, and the overall efficiency of vital infrastructure projects, making a tangible impact on global operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide dedicated systems and analytics support for a key operational platform used by business and partner teams to track commissioning work, quality items, issues, project readiness, reporting, and related workflows.
• Ensure the operational platform effectively serves business needs by translating field and regional requirements into clear specifications, organizing improvement requests, supporting testing of new features, enhancing data quality, and promoting consistent platform adoption.
• Maintain the business rules and data structure supporting the platform to ensure reliable information for Power BI dashboards, regional reporting, executive updates, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support governance meetings, steering committee preparation, stakeholder engagement, follow-up, and action tracking for the operational platform.
• Manage incoming requests for platform improvements, including intake, triage, prioritization, status tracking, and translation into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate user testing and release readiness activities, including developing test scenarios, coordinating regional testers, tracking defects, retesting, preparing training materials, and providing adoption support.
• Partner with business, regional leads, quality, and engineering teams to confirm platform workflows support real business processes such as issues, non-conformance reports (NCRs), audits, inspection test plans (ITPs), turnover, closeout, and commissioning readiness.
• Support data quality and business-side database cleanup, including ensuring consistent field usage, taxonomy alignment, reviewing duplicate or legacy data, performing QA checks, and escalating structural data issues.
• Build and maintain reporting outputs from platform data, including Power BI dashboards, KPI definitions, regional readiness views, commissioning progress, open issues, non-conformance reports (NCRs), lessons learned, and leadership reporting.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Strong Power BI and analytics development experience.
• Proven business systems/requirements translation skills, including gathering stakeholder needs and translating them into documented business, system, or reporting requirements.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience or working knowledge of mission-critical commissioning processes, particularly within data centers or similar complex infrastructure environments.
• Understanding of how commissioning activities are planned, tracked, validated, and reported across multiple stakeholders.
• Prior experience with large technology organizations.
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) activities.