Job Description -
Job Title : Senior Mortgage Data/Business Analyst
Location: McLean, VA (5-Days onsite)
Locals Preferred
May require to attend in person interview if requested.
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Senior Mortgage Data Analyst / Business Analyst to support a large-scale enterprise data transformation initiative for a leading financial services client.
This role is ideal for a business-focused analyst who understands mortgage business processes, enterprise data, and modern cloud data platforms. You'll partner with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to ensure business processes are accurately represented within a modern enterprise data ecosystem.
The ideal candidate combines strong business analysis skills with deep experience supporting core mortgage sourcing or servicing operations and can translate business needs into data requirements that enable enterprise modernization
What You'll Do
Perform data lineage, data profiling, and source-to-target data mapping across enterprise systems to understand how data supports business processes and target-state capabilities.
Define business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria for enterprise data enablement teams.
Analyze current-state and future-state business processes and identify transformation opportunities across enterprise mortgage applications.
Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into enterprise data solutions.
Analyze event-driven and entity-based data models while identifying business impacts, transformation rules, and data gaps.
Support enterprise data governance initiatives by documenting business rules, metadata, critical data elements, and business glossaries.
Coordinate QA and UAT activities to ensure delivered solutions satisfy business requirements.
Support modernization initiatives involving enterprise mortgage sourcing and servicing applications.
Utilize AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and other approved LLMs to improve business analysis, documentation, and data analysis efficiency.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, or Data Analysis experience supporting enterprise technology or data transformation initiatives.
Experience supporting enterprise mortgage data transformation or modernization initiatives.
Experience within regulated financial services or secondary mortgage organizations.
Strong experience with Business process analysis, Requirements elicitation, Data lineage, Data profiling, Source-to-target mapping, Data quality analysis, and Enterprise data governance
Experience defining requirements for cloud-based data platforms and modern data ingestion architectures.
Working knowledge of event-driven architectures, entity-based data models, and enterprise data architecture concepts.
Experience supporting Agile delivery using Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar tools.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, and documentation skills.
Bonus Points For
Experience working with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Experience with Agile delivery methodologies, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar requirements management tools.
Experience supporting enterprise data modernization or large-scale legacy system transformation initiatives.