Senior Data & Analytics Business Analyst

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.; Falls Church (VA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Intrepid, an SPA Company, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the Defense Health Agency data orchestration initiative. You will gather requirements from mission experts, translate them into technical specifications, and help validate data products across enterprise data pipelines.

You will collaborate with engineers to implement data quality, governance, and catalog artifacts, while supporting agile ceremonies and stakeholder communications. A Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required.
• Master’s degree in Health Informatics or related field.
• 10+ years of BA/data analysis experience in analytics or data integration.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document data requirements from SME across clinical, operational, financial, and readiness domains.
• Translate business questions into technical data requirements, including mappings and rules.
• Profile source systems using SQL to evaluate data availability and quality.
• Define data quality rules and validation criteria with engineering; validate datasets.
• Build and maintain data dictionaries, glossaries, and metadata artifacts for catalogs.
• Perform hands-on data analysis and validation; write transformation queries; support light Databricks pipelines.
• Support user acceptance testing and confirm data products meet needs with mission users.
• Write user stories, manage requirements backlog, and participate in agile ceremonies.
• Serve as the bridge between Government owners, data stewards, and delivery team.
• Escalate data gaps and governance questions with recommended paths.

Skills

SQL expertise

Translate business requirements

Data profiling

Requirements documentation

Agile ceremonies

Education

Master’s degree in Health Informatics

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Python

Tableau

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Intrepid, an SPA Company, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the Defense Health Agency data orchestration initiative. You will gather requirements from mission experts, translate them into technical specifications, and help validate data products across enterprise data pipelines.

You will collaborate with engineers to implement data quality, governance, and catalog artifacts, while supporting agile ceremonies and stakeholder communications. A Secret clearance is required.