Lead Data Analyst, AI-Driven Data Platform

raymondjames; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Benefits package including medical, â

Dental, vision coverage

Job summary

Raymond James seeks a Lead Technical Data Analyst to own requirements and data-mapping for our AWS data platform. You will translate business needs into clear, testable user stories and collaborate with engineers, risk analysts, and platform teams.

The role embraces AI-assisted data analysis inside the IDE, with emphasis on data quality, dimensional modeling, and UAT. This hybrid position is based in St. Petersburg, FL and includes shaping data strategy across risk and finance teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a business analyst in data, BI, or data-integration projects.
• Strong understanding of data warehouse concepts: ETL/ELT, dimensional modeling, star schema, SCD types.
• Solid SQL; comfortable reading and validating queries across Oracle, SQL Server, or cloud engines.
• Familiarity with one or more AWS data services.
• Experience writing acceptance criteria, source-to-target mappings, and data dictionaries.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum, Jira, and Confluence.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Curiosity about using AI assistants to raise the quality and speed of analysis.
• Experience in financial services or risk/data analytics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document business and data requirements as user stories, PBIs, BRDs, and acceptance criteria.
• Build source-to-target mappings and data dictionaries for Oracle, SQL Server, vendor files, and cloud data products.
• Define data quality and reconciliation rules with engineering and ensure they are testable.
• Support dimensional modeling decisions: facts, dimensions, SCD Type 1/2, and table classifications such as temporal, append-only, and snapshot.
• Validate delivered data products against requirements and support UAT.
• Coordinate across risk, data engineering, and platform teams; keep requirements and documentation organized in ADO / Confluence.
• Help shape the backlog and sprint priorities for the BA workstream.
• Use AI tooling to speed up mapping, requirements drafting, test-case generation, data analysis, and review tasks.

Skills

SQL

Data warehousing

AWS data services

Agile/Scrum

Documentation

Stakeholder management

AI tooling

Data mapping

Education

Bachelor's in Business Administration

Bachelor's in Computer and Information Science

High School Diploma

Tools

ADO/Jira

Confluence

Job description

Raymond James seeks a Lead Technical Data Analyst to own requirements and data-mapping for our AWS data platform. You will translate business needs into clear, testable user stories and collaborate with engineers, risk analysts, and platform teams.

The role embraces AI-assisted data analysis inside the IDE, with emphasis on data quality, dimensional modeling, and UAT. This hybrid position is based in St. Petersburg, FL and includes shaping data strategy across risk and finance teams.