Lead Business Analyst

GDH; Springdale (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GDH seeks a Lead Business Analyst to bridge business strategy and data-driven solutions, translating complex requirements into scalable analytics, reporting, and AI-enabled capabilities. You will partner with business and technology stakeholders to define initiatives, modernize reporting, and support analytics to improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities include leading cross-functional teams, defining roadmaps, data governance, KPIs, and stakeholder communication, while mentoring team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, product ownership, analytics, or related field.
• Experience supporting large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience developing business capability and application roadmaps.
• Proficiency with SQL and cloud-based analytics platforms such as BigQuery or comparable technologies.
• Experience with reporting and visualization platforms such as Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology leaders to define analytics strategies, roadmaps, and data-driven solutions.
• Gather, document, refine, and prioritize business requirements, including current-state and future-state process mapping.
• Translate business needs into actionable data, reporting, dashboard, analytics, and AI requirements.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving business stakeholders, data teams, architects, developers, and vendors.
• Support enterprise reporting modernization, including migration from manual reporting processes to scalable analytics platforms.
• Collaborate with data architecture and engineering teams to support data modeling, integration, governance, and deployment activities.
• Develop business cases, evaluate opportunities and risks, and recommend solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Facilitate meetings, presentations, and working sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.
• Establish key performance indicators and success metrics to measure adoption, business value, and solution performance.
• Support technology initiatives throughout requirements analysis, solution design, testing, implementation, and change management.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members and promote consistent business analysis and analytics practices.

Skills

SQL

BigQuery

Power BI

Agile

Waterfall

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or related field

Tools

Jira

Clarity

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Job description

Role Summary

The Lead Business Analyst bridges business strategy and data-driven solutions by translating complex requirements into scalable analytics, reporting, and technology solutions. This role partners with business and technology stakeholders to define initiatives, modernize reporting capabilities, and support analytics and AI solutions that improve operational efficiency and informed decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology leaders to define analytics strategies, roadmaps, and data-driven solutions.
• Gather, document, refine, and prioritize business requirements, including current-state and future-state process mapping.
• Translate business needs into actionable data, reporting, dashboard, analytics, and AI requirements.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving business stakeholders, data teams, architects, developers, and vendors.
• Support enterprise reporting modernization, including migration from manual reporting processes to scalable analytics platforms.
• Collaborate with data architecture and engineering teams to support data modeling, integration, governance, and deployment activities.
• Develop business cases, evaluate opportunities and risks, and recommend solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Facilitate meetings, presentations, and working sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.
• Establish key performance indicators and success metrics to measure adoption, business value, and solution performance.
• Support technology initiatives throughout requirements analysis, solution design, testing, implementation, and change management.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members and promote consistent business analysis and analytics practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent education and practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, product ownership, analytics, or a related field.
• Experience supporting large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience developing business capability and application roadmaps.
• Proficiency with SQL and cloud-based analytics platforms such as BigQuery or comparable technologies.
• Experience with reporting and visualization platforms such as Power BI.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling methodologies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with project and work management tools such as Jira, Clarity, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Relevant education, training, certifications, or equivalent practical experience.

Publishing Pay Range: $120,000.00 – $130,000.00 Annually

This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.