Data Platform Analyst- (Process/Product analysis)

The Evolvers Group; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Evolvers Group is seeking a Data Platform Analyst to translate business needs into platform requirements and maintain comprehensive documentation. This onsite DC role focuses on process analysis, knowledge management, and cross-functional coordination across business, data governance, and engineering teams.

The ideal candidate has strong writing skills, experience documenting requirements and processes, and a track record of coordinating stakeholders across multiple disciplines.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting business analysis, product analysis, or technology delivery.
• Ability to translate needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Strong written communication for mixed business/technical audiences.
• Experience creating and maintaining requirements documents and SOPs.
• Proven organizational skills for tracking decisions, risks, and action items.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and document use cases and business requirements for the Enterprise Data Platform.
• Lead stakeholder discovery sessions to capture needs, constraints, and outcomes.
• Translate needs into clear requirements, user stories, and process flows.
• Create process maps, SOPs, decision logs, and knowledge articles as needed.
• Support roadmap discussions, sprint planning materials, and governance updates.
• Maintain documentation inventories and ensure clarity, accuracy, and findability.
• Coordinate with product, engineering, security, data governance, and analytics teams to support delivery.

Skills

Business analysis

Process analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation

Cross-team communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Jira

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Visio

Wiki/Documentation tools

Job description

Constant learning and evolution is a way of life at Evolvers. We are always looking for passionate individuals that are ready to evolve in tandem with our team, defining and re-defining each facet of their career life at Evolvers. Our professionals are rewarded for their contributions to our clients, our culture and the overall quest for excellence. We view each of our professionals as a catalyst for growth, for Evolvers, our clients, and for the industry.

Role: Business Case Analyst- Business Case Analyst- (Process/Product analysis)Work Location: Washington, DC (Onsite)Contract: 6+ months contract (possible to extend)Job description: The EDP team is seeking a Data Platform Analyst to support the team with use case analysis, process analysis, knowledge management, process documentation, product documentation, user onboarding, product operations, and stakeholder coordination. This role will help translate business and mission needs into clear platform requirements, process documentation, capability gaps, decision records, and product planning inputs. The ideal candidate is organized, analytical, strong in written communication, and comfortable working across business, technical, data governance, and platform teams. This role will also support knowledge management for the platform by helping organize, maintain, and improve the availability of reusable documentation, decision records, process guidance, and other knowledge assets.

Responsibilities

• Support analysis and documentation of business and mission use cases for the Enterprise Data Platform.
• Conduct or support stakeholder discovery sessions to capture business needs, pain points, desired outcomes, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and product planning inputs.
• Analyze and document current-state and future-state processes related to data intake, data access, data governance, platform usage, analytics workflows, and operational support.
• Develop process maps, workflow diagrams, decision trees, RACI matrices, SOPs, and process guides as needed.
• Identify process gaps, bottlenecks, unclear ownership, handoff issues, and opportunities for standardization or improvement.
• Support the definition of repeatable platform processes, including intake, prioritization, data product onboarding, access requests, issue escalation, documentation management, and stakeholder communication.
• Support the Platform Product Owner with backlog organization, intake tracking, prioritization inputs, dependency tracking, and action item follow-up.
• Track platform requests, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, open questions, and next steps.
• Prepare and maintain product documentation, process documentation, capability descriptions, requirements documents, decision logs, meeting summaries, and knowledge articles.
• Organize documentation so that platform teams and stakeholders can easily find current information.
• Review existing documentation for clarity, consistency, completeness, and usability.
• Convert technical input from engineers, architects, security, and governance teams into clear business-facing documentation.
• Support preparation of roadmap discussions, sprint planning materials, stakeholder reviews, demos, governance forums, and leadership updates.
• Assist with creating executive-ready summaries, briefing materials, product briefs, capability one-pagers, and stakeholder communications.
• Support alignment between product priorities, business needs, technical delivery, governance requirements, and operational readiness.
• Capture meeting notes, decisions, action items, risks, blockers, and follow-up items from platform-related meetings.
• Coordinate with business, product, engineering, security, data governance, cloud infrastructure, analytics, and operational teams to support delivery execution.
• Help identify common needs across use cases to inform reusable data platform capabilities.
• Assist with defining and tracking product metrics, adoption indicators, service health measures, delivery progress, and operational improvement opportunities.
• Maintain documentation inventories and identify outdated, missing, duplicative, or inconsistent content.
• Organize and maintain platform knowledge repositories so that platform teams and stakeholders can easily find current, authoritative information.
• Establish and support documentation and knowledge management practices, including content organization, naming conventions, documentation inventories, review cycles, and archival of outdated content.
• Review existing documentation for clarity, consistency, completeness, accuracy, findability, and usability.
• Identify outdated, missing, duplicative, or inconsistent documentation and recommend updates, consolidation, or retirement.
• Convert technical input from engineers, architects, security, and governance teams into clear business-facing documentation and reusable knowledge assets.
• Prepare and maintain knowledge articles, FAQs, playbooks, reusable templates, process guides, decision logs, and other platform knowledge assets.

Qualifications

• Required Experience:
• Experience supporting business analysis, product analysis, process analysis, product operations, program support, or technology delivery activities.
• Experience gathering, documenting, and synthesizing business needs, user needs, pain points, assumptions, constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Experience documenting current-state and future-state business processes, workflows, handoffs, decision points, and operational procedures.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and product planning inputs.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to create clear documentation for mixed business and technical audiences.
• Experience creating or maintaining requirements documents, process guides, SOPs, meeting summaries, decision logs, issue trackers, and stakeholder materials.
• Ability to identify process gaps, bottlenecks, unclear ownership, handoff issues, and opportunities for standardization.
• Ability to support discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements gathering discussions.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, including the ability to track decisions, dependencies, risks, issues, action items, and open questions.
• Comfort working with technical and non-technical stakeholders across product, engineering, security, data governance, infrastructure, analytics, and business teams.
• Proficiency with collaboration, work management, and documentation tools such as Jira, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Visio, wiki, or similar tools.
• Ability to synthesize complex discussions into concise summaries, requirements, decision records, and action plans.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, process analysis, product analysis, product operations, program analysis, or technology delivery support
• Experience creating, organizing, maintaining, and improving knowledge management assets such as knowledge bases, documentation libraries, FAQs, process guides, decision logs, onboarding references, and reusable templates.
• Ability to organize information into intuitive structures that make it easier for platform teams and stakeholders to find, understand, and reuse current information.
• Experience supporting documentation lifecycle management, including content review, refresh, consolidation, and archival.