Senior Data & Analytics Business Analyst to support data lake and data lakehouse projects in an agile environment

Our client is looking for a Senior Data & Analytics Business Analyst to support data lake and data lakehouse projects in an agile environment

This role requires you to be onsite 2 days/week in Calgary or Edmonton office

Must Haves:

• 7 + years' experience as a Business Analyst
• Ability to liaise between business and technical teams
• Ability to utilize JIRA
• Must have experience supporting Data lake and Data Lakehouse projects
• Must have experience supporting projects in an Agile environment

Responsibilities;

• 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.