Senior Business Analyst - Data Strategy Lead (Remote)

Western National Insurance

Edina (MN)

Hybrid

USD 104,000 - 143,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance plan options

401(k) matching benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Western National Insurance seeks a Business Analyst IV to join the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team. You will lead the requirements lifecycle, translate business needs into data solutions, and guide analysts and Product Teams through best practices and estimation.

Strong SQL, data modeling, and cloud data platform familiarity are essential. The role emphasizes Agile collaboration, documentation, testing, and support for enterprise-level software initiatives with a focus on delivering

Qualifications

Strong SQL skills, including querying, joins, filtering, aggregation, and data validation.
Experience with data warehouses, data lakes, relational databases, and reporting environments.
Understanding of ETL/ELT processes, APIs, data integration, and data movement.
Familiarity with data modeling concepts, including relational, dimensional, and analytical models.
Experience with data quality rules, profiling, reconciliation, and validation.
Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or Databricks.
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Visio, or similar platforms.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills when dealing with ambiguity.
Ability to work independently and carry assignments through completion.

Responsibilities

Collaborates in ticket intake analysis and application troubleshooting.
Participates in work refinement and estimation processes with Product Team members.
Participates in troubleshooting, issue reporting, resolution, and communication of urgent production issues.
Partners with product and change control teams to ensure quality deliverables that provide customer value.
Creates and maintains documentation defined as important by the Product Team or company.
Supports noncore responsibilities as needed to ensure timely delivery of work to customers, including testing, road mapping, and directing deployment.
Collaborates across Product Teams and the enterprise to direct requirements activities for transformational business process and software implementation initiatives.
Applies, develops, and implements a comprehensive toolkit of advanced Business Analyst skills and techniques.
Demonstrates Business Analyst competencies and skill sets focused on creating strategic value for new and future applications.
Executes Business Analyst best practices as defined in the requirements lifecycle with minimal guidance from management.
Applies in-depth expertise to troubleshoot root causes and resolve core problems across the enterprise that affect a wide range of business processes and applications.
Identifies and develops opportunities to improve processes and best practices across Product Teams and directs teams and leadership in implementing process improvements.
Plans, designs, researches, and analyzes strategic business plans, correlates results to identify patterns, and proposes solutions across Product Teams.
Develops metrics and related reporting tools to improve Business Analyst performance against standards.
Mentors and shares knowledge with other team members.
Identifies and leads opportunities to improve or add value to enterprise-level business processes and applications using business cases, metrics, process improvement methodologies, and project management practices to drive change.
Directs the evolution of team-level development best practices, standards, and policies while considering implications for work activities.
Mobilizes action to resolve problems and improve processes at the Product Team and cross-team levels.
Utilizes specialized knowledge, experience, and creative resources to identify a wide range of solutions and draw out solutions from Product Team members.
Guides teams in evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of proposed solutions.
Consistently acts according to our customer experience standards, including responding quickly, maintaining a positive attitude, building rapport, demonstrating empathy, managing the customer’s expectations, using the proper communication channel for the situation, and taking ownership to ensure the customer’s issue is resolved.
Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.