Senior Data Platform Business Analyst - Governance & Insights

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

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst (Data Platform) to partner with stakeholders and data teams to translate business needs into actionable data requirements. You will govern data definitions, lineage, and metadata across enterprise platforms in a regulated financial services context.

Responsibilities include documenting data models, maintaining the data dictionary, and ensuring alignment with governance standards while enabling secure, auditable access for analytics and

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Product Owner, or similar data-focused role.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into enterprise-scale data requirements.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, data dictionaries, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead elicitation, analysis, and documentation of data-related business requirements for enterprise data initiatives.
• Translate business needs into data elements, metrics, hierarchies, transformations, and access patterns.
• Own and maintain the enterprise data dictionary and business glossary.
• Collaborate 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 liaison between business stakeholders and data delivery teams to resolve definition conflicts.
• Support backlog refinement and prioritization to ensure actionable requirements for development.
• Identify and remediate data quality and governance issues.
• Support regulated fintech and financial services use cases with auditability and sensitive data handling.

Skills

Data requirements translation

Data governance

Enterprise data platform

Oracle & cloud data warehouses

ETL tools (Informatica)

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Informatica

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst (Data Platform) to partner with stakeholders and data teams to translate business needs into actionable data requirements. You will govern data definitions, lineage, and metadata across enterprise platforms in a regulated financial services context.

Responsibilities include documenting data models, maintaining the data dictionary, and ensuring alignment with governance standards while enabling secure, auditable access for analytics and