Senior Data Platform Analyst

Ascensus; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America. The Senior Business Systems Analyst (Data Platform) partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable data requirements, serving as a bridge between business and technology in a regulated financial services environment.

The Senior BSA leads data requirements across models, integrations, and pipelines with a focus on data definitions, metrics, lineage, and usability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Product Owner, or similar data‑focused role.
• Proven experience translating business needs into enterprise‑scale data requirements.
• Strong experience with enterprise data platforms, including Oracle, Azure, and ETL/integration tools.
• Demonstrated ownership of a data dictionary and/or business glossary.
• Strong understanding of source‑of‑truth principles, data consistency, and governance.
• Experience partnering with data architects and engineering teams in complex environments.
• Financial services or fintech experience, including regulated data requirements.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead elicitation, analysis, and documentation of data‑related business requirements for enterprise data initiatives.
• Translate business needs into clear, data‑specific requirements, including data elements, metrics, hierarchies, transformations, and access patterns.
• Own and maintain the enterprise data dictionary and business glossary, ensuring consistency across teams.
• Partner with Data Architects and Data Engineering to reflect requirements in data models, integrations, and pipelines.
• Document end‑to‑end data flows and lineage from source systems to downstream consumers.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and data delivery teams.
• Support backlog refinement and prioritization to ensure complete, actionable requirements.
• Identify and help remediate data quality, consistency, and access issues.
• Reinforce data governance standards and approved access methods.
• Participate in design reviews, planning sessions, and cross‑functional groups.
• Support regulated fintech use cases, including auditability, security, and sensitive data handling.

Skills

Data governance

Data dictionary

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder communication

Data modeling

ETL tooling

Cloud data warehousing

Oracle

Informatica

Fintech domain understanding

Tools

Oracle

Azure

Informatica

Data governance tools

Job description

Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America. The Senior Business Systems Analyst (Data Platform) partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable data requirements, serving as a bridge between business and technology in a regulated financial services environment.

The Senior BSA leads data requirements across models, integrations, and pipelines with a focus on data definitions, metrics, lineage, and usability.