Remote Jira & Data Analytics Analyst III

LMI; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Business / Data Analyst at the Level III level to produce the trusted assessment and reporting foundation for VA Agile and Atlassian Cloud modernization initiatives. The role blends business process discovery, quantitative analysis, stakeholder interviews, and operational reporting to guide leadership on readiness, sequencing, training, and tool adoption.

The analyst will document current Jira usage, analyze Jira Cloud activity and survey data, and establish an inventory of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business analytics or related field; 4 additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a Bachelor's.

Responsibilities

• Inventory projects, teams, tooling, workflows, user populations, and current-state Jira Cloud configurations.
• Documents current Jira usage and processes, runs readiness surveys and interviews, analyzes Jira and survey data, tracks agile and portfolio metrics, and maintains data quality.
• Develop and administer readiness surveys, structured interviews, and validation workshops with stakeholders.
• Analyze survey results, Jira Cloud activity, Agile maturity, and portfolio measures to classify needs and support delivery-wave sequencing.
• Define metric specifications, data dictionaries, quality checks, and repeatable data collection procedures.
• Build Excel, Power BI, or Tableau analyses and concise findings presentations for operational and leadership audiences.
• Partner with platform and training teams to translate assessment results into onboarding support tiers and learning paths.
• Design and maintain structured assessment tools, interview protocols, process maps, inventories, and documented classification criteria for teams and work-management practices.
• Reconcile survey participation, Jira project data, workforce rosters where authorized, and team-provided information; flag missing or conflicting records.
• Define baseline and follow-up measures for readiness, team maturity, Jira Cloud adoption, training progress, and data completeness, with clear denominators and refresh rules.
• Produce traceable findings readouts, dashboards, and prioritized recommendations that explain assumptions, exceptions, and data-quality limitations.
• Collaborate with engineers and platform administrators to validate source-to-report mappings and ensure metrics remain accurate after configuration changes.

Skills

Stakeholder interviews

Data analysis

Requirements documentation

KPI definitions

Data quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in business analytics or related field

Tools

Jira

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Confluence

Jira Cloud

Job description

LMI is seeking a Business / Data Analyst at the Level III level to produce the trusted assessment and reporting foundation for VA Agile and Atlassian Cloud modernization initiatives. The role blends business process discovery, quantitative analysis, stakeholder interviews, and operational reporting to guide leadership on readiness, sequencing, training, and tool adoption.

The analyst will document current Jira usage, analyze Jira Cloud activity and survey data, and establish an inventory of