Business Data Analyst

Danta Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

Major holidays

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Danta Technologies seeks a Business Analyst to support data, reporting, and analytics initiatives. You will elicit and document requirements, translate them into data models and BI specifications, and collaborate with data architects and engineers to deliver dashboards and reporting solutions.

Responsibilities include validating KPIs, supporting Agile ceremonies, and ensuring traceability across the delivery lifecycle. Preference for strong communication and financial domain experience.

Qualifications

• Experience as a BA supporting data, analytics, BI, or data platforms.
• Strong requirements elicitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into data/reporting specs.
• Familiarity with Power BI and data visualization.
• Knowledge of Azure Data Platform technologies is desirable.
• AGile/Scrum delivery and backlog management experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, validate, and prioritize requirements for data, reporting, dashboards, and analytics.
• Translate business requirements into functional requirements, user stories, and data/reporting specs for implementation.
• Analyze current processes, KPIs, metrics, and dashboards to identify gaps and improvements.
• Define KPIs, reporting logic, dashboards, and visualization needs with stakeholders.
• Work with Data Architects, Data Engineers, BI Developers, and app teams to translate requirements into data models and reports.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability from objectives to testing and acceptance in Agile delivery.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, UAT, and defect triage.
• Develop business scenarios and validation criteria for data solutions with QA and validation teams.
• Facilitate communication between business and technical teams to resolve ambiguities and gaps.
• Provide recommendations for enhancements, modernization, and improved data accessibility.
• Create BA artifacts, BRDs/FRDs, user stories, data dictionaries, and KPI definitions.

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements Elicitation

Stakeholder Management

Data Reporting Concepts

Power BI Experience

Data Platform Basics

Tools

Power BI

Azure Data Platform

Azure Databricks

PostgreSQL

Job description

Employment Eligibility Statement

Due to specific project and client requirements, this position is open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders). Sponsorship is not available at this time.

Employment Eligibility Statement

Due to specific project and client requirements, this position is open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders). Sponsorship is not available at this time.

Danta Technologies evaluates all candidates in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and EEOC guidelines. All hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Must Have Experience

• Business / Data Analyst from a Financial Background
• Experience with Data Analysis
• Experience with Data Transformation
• Experience with Data Dashboards
• Experience building financial reports
• Experience working with Data Architects to build Data Dashboards/ Data Reports.

Job Description

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and product teams to elicit, analyze, document, validate, and prioritize business, data, reporting, dashboard, and analytics requirements through interviews, workshops, and working sessions.
• Translate business requirements into functional requirements, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, process flows, and data/reporting specifications suitable for technical implementation.
• Analyze existing business processes, information flows, reporting solutions, KPIs, metrics, and dashboards to identify gaps, improvement opportunities, and data/reporting needs.
• Support the definition and validation of KPIs, business metrics, reporting logic, dashboard requirements, filters, drill-downs, visualization needs, and analytical requirements.
• Work closely with Data Architects, Data Engineers, BI Developers, and application teams to ensure business requirements are accurately translated into data models, datasets, data transformations, reporting solutions, and analytical capabilities.
• Analyze data requirements including source-to-target business rules, data definitions, mappings, transformations, reconciliation rules, data quality requirements, and business validation criteria.
• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability, ensuring alignment between business objectives, requirements, user stories, solution design, development, testing, and acceptance. Requirements and traceability management are explicitly included in the TOR business analysis scope.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, requirement clarification, demos, UAT, defect triage, and business acceptance in an Agile delivery environment.
• Partner with QA and Data Validation teams to develop business scenarios, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, expected results, and data validation/reconciliation criteria for reporting and analytics solutions.
• Facilitate communication between business and technical teams, proactively resolving requirement ambiguities, dependencies, data issues, and functional gaps throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support evaluation of existing and proposed solutions and provide business-focused recommendations for enhancements, modernization, automation, reporting improvements, and improved data accessibility.
• Prepare and maintain high-quality BA artifacts including BRDs/FRDs where applicable, user stories, process flows, data dictionaries/business glossaries, KPI definitions, requirements traceability matrices, reporting specifications, and UAT documentation.
• Support production enhancements and continuous improvement by analyzing incidents, reporting discrepancies, data-quality issues, and recurring business problems and translating them into actionable requirements.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as a Business Analyst supporting data, reporting, analytics, BI, or enterprise data platform initiatives.
• Experience in requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, business process analysis, user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability.
• Strong understanding of data and reporting concepts, including KPIs, metrics, data models, data quality, reconciliation, data lineage, and reporting/business rules.
• Working knowledge of Power BI or comparable BI/reporting platforms, with the ability to translate business needs into dashboard and visualization requirements.
• Familiarity with enterprise data environments such as Azure Data Platform, Azure Databricks, PostgreSQL, data lakes, data pipelines, and integration solutions is highly desirable, as these technologies form part of the MIGA Data Platform engineering scope.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery, backlog management, sprint ceremonies, UAT, and the software/data development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, stakeholder communication, and facilitation skills.
• Experience working with complex financial, investment, portfolio management, risk, or development-finance systems and reporting environments

Notes

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

Danta offers a compensation package to all W2 employees that are competitive in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, the option to elect healthcare insurance (Dental, Medical, Vision), Major holidays and Paid sick leave as per state law.

The rate/ Salary range is dependent on numerous factors including Qualification, Experience and Location.