Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location requirements/Schedule: Remote in EST

Location/s: Dorchester MA open to remote.

Start Date: ASAP

Bonus/Benefits: NO

Type of contract: C2C W2 Contract to Hire C2C

Duration: 3 months to start POSSIBLE EXTENSION

Visa: USC GC

How many interviews: 2

Interview Process: Video

Important Skills: STEWARD DATA GOVERNENCE

Must Haves: SEE BELOW

Certifications must have or nice to have: Nice to have.

Job Description

Resource will be part of a fast paced dynamic Data Governance team. Bringing their deep knowledge of enterprise data assets business processes and Data Governance disciplines the successful candidate will join our Data Stewardship team in working to embed best in class data governance across Retail and Commercial businesses. They will coordinate closely with data owners and technology partners to establish common data definitions data management processes and data quality rules for data assets.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare for and participate in periodic data owner forums both within and across functional business units to discuss prioritization initiative status and issue resolution.
• Maintain the Business Glossary of data asset definitions.
• Identify track and document the Data Lineage of the data assets.
• Profile the data assets and build the business rules in partnership with the business that define fitforpurpose Data Quality ensuring that these data quality rules are built out in Informatica Data Quality tool.
• Be responsible for the ongoing review of Data Quality results and work with business and technology partners to resolve data issues and perform root cause analysis of underlying issues.
• Partner with technology to ensure that governed data assets are made available to the wider enterprise in our company data repositories.
• Create and maintain business process flows and data mappings.
• Help embed a datadriven mindset across the organization (e.g. mentor and educate data users as needed)

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Experience developing business process flows data standards and definitions
• Demonstrated ability to build out a Business Glossary and to map and track Data Lineage
• Strong SQL skills to profile data and perform ongoing data analyses
• Experience with the Informatica suite of Data Governance tools is strongly preferred
• Advanced knowledge and experience using statistical packages for analyzing data sets (Excel Access SPSS)
• Demonstrated data analysis data presentation and data development skills.
• Project management experience managing multiple project streams and delivering results across crossfunctional teams.
• Overall: Experience with Data Management / Chief Data Office Organizations specifically in a Data Stewardship function for the execution of deliverables such as data quality rules business glossary and lineage. Subject Matter Expertise in the lines of business Retail/Commercial or Risk/Finance organizations.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with databases and data analytical/statistical tools (SQL Access).
• Familiarity with Informatica products (Axon EDC IDQ) preferred.

Soft Skills:

• Ability to independently hold meetings and communicate with senior level Business and IT partners.
• Ability to selfmanage project deliverables and timelines delivering work that meets the standards and requires little revision

Core Requirements:
6 years of experience
Knowledge of Data Management / Data Governance principles
Data Quality writing identification of Key Data Elements
Previous work experience in a Chief Data Organization or similar
Project Management
SQL Development
XML
BSA