Business Data Analyst

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Job Title: Business Data Analyst

Job Location: Austin, Hybrid

Job Summary:

• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals; independently performs a variety of complicated tasks.
• Uses creativity and latitude to analyze, design, and improve business processes and systems.
• Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, and performs cost/benefit analyses of alternatives.
• Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or improve existing systems.
• Confers with organizational personnel to analyze operational procedures, identify problems, and determine input/output requirements.
• Writes detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
• Reviews system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine feasibility of program requests or changes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze existing business requirements to understand current functionalities, data flows, and pain points.
• Elicit, document, and write comprehensive business requirements for new systems or enhancements.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Write Epics and User Stories, including acceptance criteria, to communicate functional and non-functional requirements to development and QA teams.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to align business objectives with system capabilities.
• Document current state processes and identify opportunities for process and system improvements.
• Facilitate workshops, gather information, and present findings to diverse audiences.
• Design and present visual data models, dashboards, and reports to communicate trends, performance, and project timelines.
• Lead data-focused meetings and interviews, document outcomes, and drive resolution of data-related issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a business data analyst in the IT industry.
• Proven ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams to analyze complex data-driven business problems and recommend actionable solutions.
• Experience designing and optimizing data workflows and data management processes using modeling or mapping tools.
• Well-versed in writing Epics and User Stories, including acceptance criteria.
• Experience creating and maintaining data-related documentation, including data dictionaries, business requirement documents, and data mapping specifications.
• Demonstrated ability to design and present visual data models and dashboards.
• Experience leading data-focused meetings and driving issue resolution.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong multi-tasking skills to manage multiple data projects concurrently.
• Working knowledge of eligibility rules for SNAP, Medicaid, and TANF programs; experience interpreting and applying state and federal guidelines.
• Proven experience interpreting and applying policy within an integrated environment.