Senior Specialist - Business Analysis

The Opportunity

Data Intelligence Platform,

Responsibilities

• Work directly with client stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business and technical requirements for platform deployment.
• Analyze existing client infrastructure, workflows, and data sources to ensure a seamless platform integration.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and requirement sessions with client teams.
• Act as the primary liaison between clients and engineering during implementation.
• Lead technical and business demonstrations of company solutions for internal teams and external clients.
• Collaborate with solution architects and SMEs to define deployment blueprints and integration plans.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers on the data discovery, document data mapping and flows.
• Act as the primary liaison between clients and engineering during implementation.
• Support platform setup, environment validation, and data onboarding activities.
• Participate in testing and user acceptance sessions, ensuring that deliverables meet client requirements.
• Identify gaps and propose process improvements for smoother deployments.
• Develop templates and best practices for requirement gathering, documentation, and client onboarding.
• Collaborate with product teams to provide feedback on deployment-related feature requests.
• Provide regular status updates and clear communication to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment between client expectations and engineering deliverables.
• Operate within Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) and air-gapped or isolated data centers, adhering to all applicable security protocols and handling procedures.
• Adapt standard BA workflows (elicitation, workshops, status reporting) to classified-environment restrictions, including device control, document classification markings, and need-to-know principles.
• Manage requirements gathering, documentation, and coordination activities under strict information-security constraints, with no access to external networks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in data platform deployment/implementation projects.
• Strong understanding of data management concepts – data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse, batch & streaming pipelines, data governance, data quality, BI tools
• Strong skills in requirements elicitation, documentation, and stakeholder management.
• Strong ability to led complex negotiations and resolved critical issues under pressure through swift and strategic decision-making.
• Strong ability to structure large volumes of information and identify and prioritize key insights.
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven solutions or analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management practices.
• Solid grounding in BA fundamentals: requirements engineering (elicitation, analysis, specification, validation), use-case and user-story authoring, gap analysis, and traceability matrices.
• Strong skills in stakeholder identification, management, and communication planning across diverse technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to facilitate structured workshops (JAD sessions, design sprints) and drive consensus among competing stakeholders.
• Experience producing high-quality deliverables: BRDs, FRDs, process models (BPMN/UML), data dictionaries, and acceptance criteria.
• Strong ability to lead complex negotiations and resolve critical issues under pressure through swift and strategic decision-making.
• Strong ability to structure large volumes of information and identify and prioritize key insights.