Sr Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst
Location Richmond VA (Look for nearby candidates within 2030 miles from client location )
Interview Type Both Phone and In Person
Work Arrangement Hybrid (3 days onsite 2 days remote)

Must Have skills: Data Factory v2Data Lake Store Data Lake Analytics Azure Analysis Services Azure Synapse
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
Experience with Azure Databricks
Experience with ESRI ArcGIS

Responsibilities:
Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points
Develop expertise in source system datasets and data lifecycle
Profile source data which may contain a spatial component; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
Elicit record and manage metadata
Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows context diagrams and data flow diagrams
Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing
Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
Identify and group related user stories into themes document dependencies and associated business processes
Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
Create conceptual prototypes and mockups
Collaborate with staff vendors consultants and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate detail and test potential and implemented solutions
Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives test plans and test cases and executing test cases
Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress

Qualifications Required:
The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts
5 years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process
Exceptional experience writing complex sql queries for Sql Server and Oracle
Experience with Azure Databricks
Experience with ESRI ArcGIS
Experience with enterprise data management
Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server)
Experience with reporting systems operational data stores data warehouses data lakes data marts
The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Required:
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

Require/Desire Skills
Advanced understanding of data integrations. Strong knowledge of database architectures
Work closely with data analysts data scientists and other data consumers within the business in an attempt to gather and populate data
Strong analytical and problem solving skills Ability to build strong relationships both internally and externally
Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts Ability to effectively prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects
expertise in Data Factory v2Data Lake Store Data Lake Analytics Azure Analysis Services Azure Synapse
strong SQL scripting skills
strong skills conducting spatial data analysis