IT Business Systems Analyst IV
Ann Arbor, MI - USA
Job Summary
The Business Analyst (BA) plays a critical role in enabling successful Data Platform and Data Engineering outcomes by translating business objectives into clear deliveryready requirements for data solutions. This role focuses on defining data needs analytical intent downstream use cases and operational expectations ensuring data products are reliable scalable and aligned to enterprise standards. The BA partners closely with Technical Delivery Managers (TDMs) Data Engineers Solution Architects and business stakeholders to drive effective execution across data pipelines platforms and analytics enablement initiatives
Key Responsibilities
Data Requirements & Definition
- Lead discovery with business and technical stakeholders to understand data use cases decision drivers and analytical outcomes.
- Translate business needs into datafocused requirements including source systems grain key dimensions metrics calculation logic and data quality expectations.
- Produce clear executable Jira tickets and user stories for data pipelines transformations models views and datasets.
- Define acceptance criteria covering data correctness completeness timeliness and usability.
- Maintain durable documentation such as data definitions process flows assumptions and decision logs.
Execution & Delivery Support
- Actively support Data Engineers during build and test phases by answering requirement and businesslogic questions in real time.
- Help resolve data ambiguity edge cases and scope gaps uncovered during implementation.
- Partner with TDMs to support sprint planning backlog refinement and delivery readiness for data workstreams.
- Participate in standups planning sessions and retrospectives as a core delivery team member.
Collaboration & Platform Alignment
- Partner with Solution Architects to ensure requirements align with platform standards architectural patterns and longterm scalability goals.
- Coordinate across upstream source teams and downstream consumer teams (BI analytics ML operations) to surface dependencies and impacts early.
- Help ensure data solutions preserve business intent while fitting within established Data Platform and governance frameworks.
Continuous Improvement & Enablement
- Improve consistency and quality of data tickets documentation and handoffs to reduce rework and clarifying cycles.
- Contribute to retrospectives and process reviews to strengthen data delivery patterns and BA practice maturity.
- Identify opportunities for automation standardization and reuse within data discovery and documentation processes.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in Business Information Systems Computer Science or related field.
- 5 years of experience in business analysis data analysis or delivery roles supporting technical teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery and the data delivery lifecycle (ingest transform serve).
- Handson experience working with Data Engineering and Platform teams.
- Experience with Jira Confluence data modeling or diagramming tools (Visio/Lucidchart) and analytics or observability tools (e.g. Power BI Splunk Grafana).
What Sets You Apart
- Ability to reason about data from business outcome metric data requirement.
- Comfort operating in technically complex environments without needing to write production code.
- Strong analytical mindset with attention to data detail and downstream impacts.
- Proven ability to create clarity alignment and momentum across crossfunctional data teams.
- Passion for continuous improvement and building durable scalable data solutions.
Additional Information :
Benefits:
Paid Holidays and Vacation
Medical Dental & Vision benefits that start on the first day of employment
No-cost mental health support for employee and dependents
Childcare tuition discounts
No-cost fitness nutrition and wellness programs
Fertility benefits
Adoption assistance
401k matching contributions
15% off the purchase price of stock
Company bonus
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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