Senior Business Analyst with a background in Data Analytics to elicit, analyze and validate business needs for data and analytics initiatives for a utiliti

Our client is looking for a Senior Business Analyst with a background in Data Analytics to elicit, analyze and validate business needs for data and analytics initiatives for a utilities client

**This is a hybrid role in Edmonton or Calgary**

Must haves:

• 7+ years experience as a Business Analyst delivering data centric initiatives and analytical projects
• Translating business questions into data requirements and measurable product outcomes.
• Shaping backlogs for data platforms/data Lakehouse features and analytics use cases.
• Defining user stories and acceptance criteria for data pipelines, models, semantic layers, dashboards, and self‑service analytics.
• Partnering with Data Architects and Data Engineers on solution design (data modeling, integration patterns, data quality, governance).
• Leading or supporting UAT focused on data accuracy, performance, and reliability of analytical products.
• Documenting processes, lineage, and product artifacts so stakeholders can trust and use the insights
• Shaping backlogs for data platforms/data lakehouse features and analytics use cases.
• Defining user stories and acceptance criteria for data pipelines, models, semantic layers, dashboards, and self‑service analytics.

Nice to haves:

• Certification in business analysis (e.g., CBAP, CCBA).

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnering with Data Architects and Data Engineers on solution design (data modeling, integration patterns, data quality, governance).
• Leading or supporting UAT focused on data accuracy, performance, and reliability of analytical products.
• Documenting processes, lineage, and product artifacts so stakeholders can trust and use the insights.
• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Collaborate with Data architects and Engineers to document the proposed solutions to meet business needs.
• Create and maintain documentation for data and analytics solutions, products and processes.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements- verbally or through written documentation - to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members