Senior Data Platform Analyst — Hybrid Data Solutions Lead

Gainsco; Texas; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental benefits

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Parental Leave Policy

401K + Company Match

PTO + Holidays

Job summary

GAINSCO is seeking a Data Platform Analyst III to translate complex business and data needs into clear requirements for enterprise data solutions. This senior role partners with Business, Data Engineering, Architecture, Governance, and Analytics teams to drive data initiatives from discovery through deployment.

You will analyze data sources, processes, integrations, and reporting needs, delivering scalable, reliable, and business-aligned solutions while mentoring other analysts.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Business, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, data analysis, data platform delivery, project management, or a related field is required.
• 1+ years of experience in the Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance or financial services industry is required.
• Experience in Personal Auto insurance is preferred.
• 2+ years of experience supporting complex, cross-functional data or technology initiatives is preferred.
• Experience gathering complex business and data requirements and translating them into functional requirements, technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and source-to-target specifications is required.
• Experience supporting data platform, data integration, modernization, or analytics initiatives throughout the delivery lifecycle is required.
• Experience analyzing source systems, data structures, integrations, transformations, reporting needs, and data-quality requirements is required.
• Experience facilitating discovery sessions and coordinating testing, data validation, defect resolution, and stakeholder approval is required.
• Experience supporting enterprise data solutions involving technologies such as Azure data services, Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka, Fivetran, or Power BI is required.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders, requirements, risks, dependencies, assumptions, and competing priorities.
• Experience mentoring analysts, delivery partners, or business stakeholders on data practices and requirements standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions and translate complex business and data needs into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and source-to-target specifications.
• Partner across business and technical teams throughout planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and transition to production support.
• Document data flows, process workflows, integrations, business rules, lineage, ownership, quality expectations, and reporting requirements.
• Manage the requirements backlog, track risks and dependencies, and resolve requirement gaps or ambiguities.
• Coordinate data validation, reconciliation, defect triage, User Acceptance Testing, and stakeholder approval.
• Mentor analysts and cross-functional partners while improving data literacy, documentation standards, and data platform analysis practices.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Data analysis

Process mapping

User story development

Acceptance criteria

Education

High school diploma

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/ Data Analytics/ CS/ Business

Tools

Azure data services

Snowflake

Airflow

Kafka

Fivetran

Power BI

Job description

GAINSCO is seeking a Data Platform Analyst III to translate complex business and data needs into clear requirements for enterprise data solutions. This senior role partners with Business, Data Engineering, Architecture, Governance, and Analytics teams to drive data initiatives from discovery through deployment.

You will analyze data sources, processes, integrations, and reporting needs, delivering scalable, reliable, and business-aligned solutions while mentoring other analysts.