Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data Integration (Data Connect) (FTE / Onsite Interview)

NTT DATA, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 97,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Services in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data Integration (Data Connect) to lead data integration initiatives. The role focuses on requirements discovery, backlog management, and coordinating onboarding to the Data Connect platform with cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates will have 7+ years in business analysis or data delivery, strong collaboration skills, and hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence in an Agile setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years in BA/ Systems Analysis or data delivery.
• Minimum 5+ years gathering and documenting business requirements.
• Minimum 4+ years in Agile environments with SDLC practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and requirements sessions with business stakeholders and product teams.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate requirements for onboarding, data feeds, and platform capabilities.
• Translate business needs into backlog items with scope and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate onboarding to Data Connect from intake to handoff.
• Manage JIRA backlog items and support release planning related to data platforms.

Skills

Data integration

Requirements gathering

Backlog management

Agile delivery

stakeholder management

JIRA

Confluence

cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering / Business / Data Management

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

ETL/ Data integration tools

Job description

Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data Integration (Data Connect) (FTE / Onsite Interview)

Date: Sep 23, 2026

Location: Charlotte, NC, US

Company: NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization,

We are currently seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data Integration (Data Connect) (FTE / Onsite Interview) to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC), United States (US).

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery and requirements sessions with application teams, Product Owners, business stakeholders, platform engineering, production support, and Data Connect product teams to understand data integration needs.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements for application onboarding, data feeds, data flows, access, scheduling, notifications, and platform capabilities.
• Create and maintain business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process flows, and supporting analysis.
• Translate business needs into clear and actionable backlog items with defined scope, dependencies, assumptions, business rules, and validation criteria.
• Facilitate requirement walkthroughs, backlog refinement sessions, prioritization discussions, solution alignment meetings, and stakeholder working sessions.
• Coordinate application onboarding to the Data Connect platform from initial intake through requirements, implementation, testing, release readiness, and operational handoff.
• Guide application teams in understanding platform standards, supported integration patterns, controls, environment requirements, and implementation expectations.
• Partner with architects, engineers, developers, QA, platform specialists, and production support teams to clarify requirements and resolve functional and technical questions.
• Manage feature, enhancement, and application onboarding intake in partnership with application leads and Data Connect stakeholders.
• Maintain JIRA backlog items to ensure requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and supporting information are complete and ready for estimation, prioritization, development, testing, and release.
• Support release planning by evaluating prioritized backlog items, production issues, enterprise mandates, strategic initiatives, business commitments, funding, dependencies, and downstream impacts.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, testing status, change readiness, implementation activities, and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate system integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, business validation, and stakeholder sign-off activities.
• Partner with engineering and production support teams to investigate and triage data-flow failures, access issues, datasource problems, scheduling behavior, performance concerns, and production incidents.
• Collect supporting evidence, document business impact, track ownership, and communicate root-cause findings, remediation plans, status, and closure.
• Support operational readiness reviews, deployment planning, release instructions, implementation communications, and post-production validation.
• Prepare concise project and release status updates, decision materials, issue summaries, and stakeholder communications for delivery teams and leadership.
• Maintain onboarding guides, user documentation, FAQs, process documentation, and platform communication materials.
• Identify opportunities to improve requirements intake, application onboarding, documentation, platform adoption, delivery transparency, and stakeholder experience.
• Serve as the primary functional liaison between business stakeholders, consuming applications, Data Connect product teams, technology teams, and production support.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Functional Analysis, Systems Analysis, Product Analysis, Data Management, or Technology Delivery.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business and functional requirements.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, process flows, use cases, and business requirements.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience working in Agile delivery environments with backlog management, refinement, prioritization, and SDLC practices.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience using JIRA, Confluence, or similar requirements and delivery-management tools.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience coordinating application onboarding, system integration, implementation, or enterprise technology delivery.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience coordinating SIT, UAT, defect management, business validation, release readiness, and production implementation activities.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data integration, data movement, data warehousing, relational databases, and data validation concepts.
• Strong understanding of data integration flows, interfaces, feeds, scheduling, dependencies, data quality, and operational controls.
• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders and translating complex technology and data concepts into business-friendly language.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into clear backlog items, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and actionable delivery tasks.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, identify dependencies, surface risks, facilitate decisions, and drive issues through resolution.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business users, Product Owners, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to independently manage requirements and functional-analysis activities from intake through implementation and operational handoff.
• Ability to explain previous project experience in terms of business need, personal contribution, functional analysis, technical collaboration, and delivered outcomes.

Travel:

This position may require occasional travel based on business and project needs. The candidate should be available to participate in onsite meetings, stakeholder workshops, and team sessions when required.

Degree:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Data Management, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Nice to Have;

• Experience working with enterprise data integration, orchestration, or data management platforms.
• Experience supporting Treasury, Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Data Governance, or Financial Services initiatives.
• 3+ years of SQL experience for data analysis, validation, troubleshooting, and reconciliation.
• Experience with ETL, Informatica, Oracle/Oracle Exadata, Hadoop, Spark, APIs, data lineage, data quality, monitoring, and orchestration.
• Exposure to Autosys, Airflow, CI/CD, Ansible, Jenkins, Python, or similar technology delivery tools.
• Experience supporting enterprise platform modernization, production controls, data retention, archival, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Experience working with data governance, regulatory controls, audit requirements, or other regulated technology environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale application onboarding and platform adoption initiatives.
• Knowledge of data integration patterns, APIs, batch processing, event-driven integration, and enterprise data flows.
• Experience with JIRA/Confluence administration, dashboards, reporting, and delivery governance.

#LI-NorthAmerica

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is $96,800.00 - $145,200.00. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, lifeand AD\&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners.NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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