Senior Business & Data Analyst – Remote

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

Job summary

LMI Consulting, LLC is seeking a Business / Data Analyst at Level III to deliver trusted assessment and reporting for VA Agile and Atlassian Cloud initiatives. You will analyze Jira usage, survey data, and interview findings, and translate results into clear, actionable recommendations and portfolio metrics.

You will build dashboards in Excel, Power BI, or Tableau, document baselines, and collaborate with platform and training teams to define onboarding and learning paths.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business analytics, business administration, information systems, statistics, economics, or related field; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for a Bachelor's.
• 3+ years of relevant business analysis, process analysis, reporting, or quantitative analysis experience.
• Experience with Jira reporting, data extraction, and assessment of workflow/process use.
• Strong Excel capabilities and hands-on Power BI or Tableau skills.
• Ability to conduct stakeholder interviews, document requirements, and validate data quality.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination and satisfy applicable federal vetting requirements.
• Atlassian ACP-120 (Jira Administration for Cloud) or SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) certification.
• Experience organizing interview notes, survey results, and system-generated data into defensible findings and practical business recommendations.
• Ability to write concise requirements, process narratives, KPI definitions, and validation procedures for mixed technical and nontechnical audiences.

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

Requirements writing

Data analysis

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (desirable)

Tools

Jira

Power BI

Tableau

Confluence

Jira Align

Job description

LMI Consulting, LLC is seeking a Business / Data Analyst at Level III to deliver trusted assessment and reporting for VA Agile and Atlassian Cloud initiatives. You will analyze Jira usage, survey data, and interview findings, and translate results into clear, actionable recommendations and portfolio metrics.

You will build dashboards in Excel, Power BI, or Tableau, document baselines, and collaborate with platform and training teams to define onboarding and learning paths.