Business Analyst

Integrated Resources, Inc ( IRI ); Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 61,992 - 68,880; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Business Analyst (Cloud Governance) in Atlanta, GA. The successful candidate will facilitate cloud governance strategies, ensuring compliance and operational excellence while working closely with technical and business teams. The role requires 5+ years in analytics, proficiency in SQL and familiarity with AWS. This position offers a hybrid work model balancing onsite and remote work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive analytics and data visualization experience.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets to extract meaningful insights.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Define and document requirements for cloud governance standards.
• Analyze cloud governance dashboards to identify trends and risks.

Skills

SQL

AWS cloud platform

Data visualization tools (Databricks, Athena, Tableau)

Lucidchart

Confluence

Jira

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, Economics, Statistics or Engineering

Tools

Excel

Postgres or SQL DB

Job description

Overview

Integrated Resources, Inc (IRI) is providing a base pay range for this role. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$45.00/hr - $50.00/hr

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Job title and location

Job Title: Business Analyst (Cloud Governance)

Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid: 4 days onsite per week, 1 day remote)

What You Will Work On

• The position of Business Analyst (Cloud Governance) is critical in enabling organizations to effectively utilize cloud technologies while ensuring compliance, security, cost efficiency, and operational excellence. This role bridges the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring that cloud governance strategies and capability delivery align with organizational goals and policies/standards.
• With a unique blend of analytical, technical, and communication skills, this position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on achieving our cloud strategy in which governance is critical to driving standardization, cost and risk reduction.
• This position is critical to helping create a culture of compliance and transparency.
• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of working with stakeholders to develop robust requirements documentation and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver products that meet the requirements.

What You Will Do

• Act as a liaison between the cloud governance team, platform owners / business domains, ServiceNow, CIS, and other stakeholders to ensure business requirements and interfaces are fully defined so the engineering team can deliver governance platform capabilities.
• Interface with platform / rule owners across the enterprise to ensure new standards / rules governing the cloud infrastructure are defined and documented with clearly outlined requirements for compliance detection and measurement.
• Partner with the engineering team to design and define clear requirements for delivering policy as code in support of all cloud governance capabilities (including detection, notification, and reporting).
• Aid Cloud Governing Body with standard/rule documentation; facilitation of standard/rule approval, publication and communication; and lifecycle management.
• Work with platform / rule owners to facilitate the exception handling process when standards / rules cannot be adhered to.
• Serve as an empowered liaison to interface with adjacent teams (e.g., ServiceNow, pipeline deployment team, CIS) that are responsible for feeding compliance data into cloud governance, and ensure requirements, design, and delivery expectations are met.
• Analyze cloud governance dashboards and reports to identify trends, inefficiencies, and risks associated with all compliance metrics.
• Present data‑based findings and actionable recommendations to stakeholders (including leaders) to improve compliance metrics, adoption, and cloud governance practices.
• Develop and communicate guidance documents to educate stakeholders on cloud governance principles, capabilities, and best practices.
• Promote a culture of accountability and continuous improvement in cloud governance.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• Proficiency in SQL for querying data for insights.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud platform as it relates to data engineering and data science.
• Familiarity with Lucidchart or other diagramming software.

Analytical Skills

• Ability to analyze complex data sets to extract meaningful insights.
• Experience in data visualization tools like Databricks, Athena, or Tableau.

Communication and Collaboration

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with Confluence and Jira.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive analytics and data visualization experience.
• Experience using tools such as Excel, Database and Data Warehouse applications (Postgres or some SQL DB, Databricks or equivalent) and others to directly query, assess, and analyze data to meet business needs.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Retail, Retail Apparel and Fashion, and Apparel Manufacturing

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