Senior Data Platform Analyst (GCP Onboarding Lead)

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Business Analyst to guide data source onboarding for a GCP-based data platform. You will lead stakeholder alignment, define requirements, and coordinate with engineering teams across a distributed workforce in India, Central and Eastern Europe, and Germany.

You will own the delivery plan, manage risks, and keep priorities aligned as data ingestion and integration efforts progress, ensuring timely decisions and clear communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis or technical delivery coordination across business and engineering teams.
• Proactive approach with a strong sense of ownership.
• Understanding of data integration, ETL/ELT, and batch and real-time ingestion.
• Working knowledge of GCP, particularly BigQuery and Cloud Storage.
• Understanding of how on-premises data sources connect securely to cloud platforms.
• SQL skills to explore data and support requirements analysis and validation.
• Awareness of data security, compliance, governance, and data quality considerations.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and maintain alignment across teams
• Clarify data requirements, dependencies, and expected delivery timelines
• Coordinate analysis and onboarding activities with engineering teams
• Maintain a clear view of what is planned, what is progressing, and where decisions or support are needed
• Proactively address blockers and risks, involve the right people, and involve the right people, and
• Keep stakeholders informed and follow actions through to completion
• Align different priorities across business and engineering teams and move discussions towards clear decisions
• Raise concerns constructively with clear communication

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Data integration

GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Storage)

SQL

Ownership

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

ETL/ELT tools

Data pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Business Analyst to guide data source onboarding for a GCP-based data platform. You will lead stakeholder alignment, define requirements, and coordinate with engineering teams across a distributed workforce in India, Central and Eastern Europe, and Germany.

You will own the delivery plan, manage risks, and keep priorities aligned as data ingestion and integration efforts progress, ensuring timely decisions and clear communication with stakeholders.