Senior Data & Business Analyst (Hybrid, Austin)

ASSYST; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ASSYST is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a public health data modernization initiative in Austin, Texas. This hybrid role requires 3 days onsite and 2 days remote, with a strict local-candidates requirement.

The role involves eliciting and documenting complex requirements, ensuring traceability, performing gap analyses, and coordinating with both business and IT teams. You will map data flows, support UAT, and contribute to ROI assessments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis with elicitation, documentation, validation, and traceability.
• 8+ years in business process analysis, mapping, current/future-state workflows, gap analyses, and process improvements.
• 5+ years experience liaising between business and IT teams (Architecture, Project Delivery, Application Sustain).
• Strong experience as a Data Analyst analyzing raw data alongside BA duties.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, document, validate, and manage traceability for requirements across business, functional, reporting, data, security, and user-access areas.
• Evaluate business systems and user needs, aligning solutions with business strategies.
• Document current and future workflows, perform gap analyses, and recommend technology applications.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and coordinate reviews between program and technical teams.
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs and program functions for development.
• Develop user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Support data mapping, testing, UAT, and defect resolution.
• Prepare solution options, assess risks, and conduct ROI and cost/benefit analyses.
• Assist Project Manager to keep the project on schedule and within budget.

Skills

Stakeholder facilitation

Requirements elicitation

Data analysis

Traceability

Job description

ASSYST is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a public health data modernization initiative in Austin, Texas. This hybrid role requires 3 days onsite and 2 days remote, with a strict local-candidates requirement.

The role involves eliciting and documenting complex requirements, ensuring traceability, performing gap analyses, and coordinating with both business and IT teams. You will map data flows, support UAT, and contribute to ROI assessments.