Senior Business Analyst

This role is based in our Newton MA Office 

Position Summary:
The Senior Business Analyst will play a strategic role in bridging the gap between business stakeholders and the Data Intelligence Team (Analytics Reporting and Governance). You will not just gather requirements; you will help shape our data strategy. You must understand business drivers to define requirements for data modeling reporting and self-service analytics.

Crucially this role acts as the Architect of Knowledge for the team. You will define what information needs to be captured to enable our Documentation as Code strategy ensuring our Data Catalog and Central Data Hub are structured accurate and ready for AI-assisted ingestion.

Qualified candidates will have a BS degree as well as 5 years of relevant work experience.

Essential Job Functions:

• Requirements Gathering & Strategy: Work closely with business stakeholders to analyze reporting needs and gather precise requirements for data modeling and dashboarding projects.
• Central Data Hub Enablement: Partner with Analytics Engineers to establish and curate a Central Data Hub. You will define the business taxonomy and access requirements ensuring that data is organized in a way that is intuitive for business users to navigate
• Data Catalog Stewardship: Own the business definition side of the Data Catalog. You will be responsible for maintaining the Business Glossary ensuring that metrics like Churn or Revenue are defined consistently across the organization.
• Documentation Architecture: Define the standard templates and required metadata fields for our data documentation. You will ensure that requirements are written in a structured format that allows our engineering team (and AI tools) to seamlessly convert them into technical documentation (Docs-as-Code).
• Process Definition: Lead the effort to standardize how we capture logic. You wont need to write the code but you must define the inputs required to make the automated documentation process successful.
• Stakeholder Communication: Represent the Data Intelligence team via kickoff presentations and demos translating technical data constraints into business-friendly language.
• Data Quality & UAT: Define acceptance criteria for data accuracy and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure reports and models match the business reality before release.

Competencies:

• Structured Thinking: The ability to organize business needs into clean logical categories and templates.
• Data Literacy: A deep understanding of how data flows how metrics are calculated and how governance protects the business.
• Initiative: Must be able to research and suggest new ideas to improve how we organize and govern data.
• Impact and Influence: Build support for data governance policies and see them through to adoption.
• Communication: Comfortable and effective in communicating to audiences of varying roles explaining why a metric is calculated a certain way to both developers and VPs.

Qualifications :

• Education: BS or equivalent degree.
• Experience: 5 years of Business Analysis experience specifically within Data Analytics or Business Intelligence teams.
• Technical Environment: Comfortable working in a modern data environment (e.g. Cloud Data Warehouses BI Tools).
• Requirement Writing: Exceptional skills in writing detailed data requirements. You must be able to write requirements that are structured enough to be machine-readable/ingested by automation tools.
• Governance: Experience with Data Catalogs (e.g. Alation Collibra or similar) and Business Glossaries.
• SQL Skills: Good database skills to perform SQL queries to explore data verify logic and assist with debugging (Read-level proficiency required).
• Documentation: Strong ability to create workflows diagrams and matrixes that explain complex data lineage.
• Process: Experience working in a Lean/Agile environment specifically adapting Agile specifically for Data/Analytics lifecycles.

Additional Information :

TechTarget Inc. doing business as Informa TechTarget including its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees applicants or any other covered persons because of race color sex (including pregnancy) age national origin or ancestry ethnicity religion creed sexual orientation gender identity or expression status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring training promotion discipline compensation benefits and termination of employment. If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and or in the advertised position please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence.

Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as amended by the ADA Amendments Act and all applicable federal state or local law.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. Thats why we work in-person with each other or with customers and partners three days a week or more. When youre not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces like at an Informa event you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

Our benefits include:

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague groups and networks promoting a positive supportive and collaborative work environment
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When its time for the next step we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 15 days PTO rising to 20 after three years and 25 after six years plus 10 national holidays a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• Competitive benefits including a 401k match health vision and dental insurance parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance mental health first aiders free access to a wellness app and more
• Recognition for great work with global awards and kudos programs
• As an international company the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

The salary range for this role is $USD based on experience.

This posting will automatically expire on 22 January 2026 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time