Senior Data Governance & Analytics Analyst

esri; Redlands (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Esri in Redlands, CA is seeking a senior Business Analyst who can drive discovery, requirements engineering, data analysis, and migration validation across Finance and HR data domains.

You will translate business needs into implementation-ready technical specifications, coordinate with data engineers, and support governance, security, reconciliation, UAT, and audit-ready documentation throughout Fabric migrations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct business analysis experience supporting data, analytics, BI, or data warehouse initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into functional specifications, data mappings, acceptance criteria, and test plans.
• Intermediate to advanced querying and analysis skills using SQL Server tools and Excel.
• Knowledge of dimensional modeling concepts, semantic models, reporting layers, measures, KPIs, and data lineage.
• Experience supporting data validation, reconciliation, defect triage, UAT, and production readiness for critical reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills adaptable to SMEs, engineers, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance, HR, and technical stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document requirements.
• Facilitate workshops to understand current-state processes, reporting needs, data warehouse usage, pain points, controls, and objectives.
• Translate requirements into implementation-ready specifications, including mappings, transformation rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Create and maintain project documentation: data dictionaries, data models, and traceability matrices.
• Collaborate with data engineers to define business rules, resolve gaps, and support development planning.
• Design and coordinate validation activities for migrated data products using reconciliation, testing, and defect tracking.
• Establish data quality, validation, parity reporting, and monitoring solutions using BI tools.
• Document governance, security, and compliance requirements including RBAC, PII, retention, lineage, and audit needs.
• Lead UAT planning, script development, readiness assessments, and post-migration validation support.

Skills

Data analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

SQL

Power BI

T-SQL

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

BA/BS in Information Systems, Analytics, or similar

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Power BI

SQL Server

Data dictionaries

Job description

Esri in Redlands, CA is seeking a senior Business Analyst who can drive discovery, requirements engineering, data analysis, and migration validation across Finance and HR data domains.

You will translate business needs into implementation-ready technical specifications, coordinate with data engineers, and support governance, security, reconciliation, UAT, and audit-ready documentation throughout Fabric migrations.