Senior Business Data Analyst - Blend360

BLEND360 is an award-winning, new breed Data Science Solutions Company focused on powering exceptional results to our Fortune 500 clients. We are a growing company—born at the intersection of advanced analytics, data, and technology.

We are currently looking for a Lead Business Data Analyst to join our client’s Marketing Data Engineering team in the Data and Analytics business unit.  We are looking for someone who can understand the client’s data analysis & sourcing needs, who has experience designing and building enterprise data assets and essentially helping the team build data pipelines using Next-Gen tools & new capabilities.

The Details:

• Duration: 9+ month contract role
• Hybrid (Chicago, Illinois)
• Benefits:  We offer benefits to our full-time consultants, including Health, Vision, Dental, 401K plan, Life Insurance, Pretax Commuter Benefits, and an incredibly supportive team cheering you on!

What you will do:

In this role, you will be responsible for achieving operational excellence and ensuring that our client aligns their data growth to the Data Management and Data Governance frameworks.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Be the solution wide functional and data subject matter expert on large scope projects.
• Elicit objective criteria for solution acceptance and ensure mapping and traceability from desired capabilities through to candidate solution presented for acceptance.
• Be an ongoing solution advocate to ensure enhancements and future development roadmap conforms to solution design and client business objectives.
• Communicate and collaborate with IT application and data architects / SMEs as required for business and IT mapping and creation of roadmaps for implementing technology solutions relevant to executing on specified strategy.
• Able to assemble, analyze and evaluate data to make appropriate and well-reasoned recommendations and decisions to support the business and project teams. 
• Partner with business and technology teams to develop data applications. Identify business data ingestion and processing frameworks. Coordinates and obtains data application requirements from the business. Translates business requirements to development teams. Assist with development and testing processes. Coordinate data application and model deployments and validations.
• Ensures data governance policies are followed by implementing and validating data lineage, quality checks, classification, etc.
• Provides support for deployed data applications and analytical models. Identifies data problems and guides issue resolutions.
• Assists with the development of models, analytic processes, and reports. Provides guidance on the development of data consumption processes.
• Take primary ownership for written requirements specifications, from initial creation, through change management and solution delivery.
• Interface with the business and technology teams to support the design and delivery of medium to large scale integrated marketing solutions.
• Provides data and technical consulting during data application design. Provide technical consulting on data composition and data engineering.
• Lead and drive conversations with technical and business stakeholders to design and validate design against requirements.
• Interpret client enterprise marketing strategies and translate into operational execution of marketing technology solutions.
• Elicit requirements from business stakeholders which are essential to define capabilities required for executing business strategy.
• Able to quickly develop and maintain relationships within the organization and/or with external partners, and understand the unique needs of each partnership.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information technology or related.
• 4+ years’ work experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, next generation databases, or related.
• 7+ years of experience with writing detailed requirements specifications for IT solution delivery with a significant database component or database focus - consisting of at least 100 distinct enumerated requirements.
• 7+ years of experience as a business requirements analyst with full lifecycle software implementations involving large databases.
• Advanced SQL skills – Able to navigate a full database solution including writing queries to aggregate data for deep insights. 
• Deep experience in CRM, Customer Data & Customer Identity solutions
• The ability to create technical documentation (including Visio documentation of overall business solution) required. 
• Skilled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio 
• Agile/Scrum project experience, especially utilizing Jira.
• Domain experience with marketing analytics and financial services
• Exhibits intense curiosity, to dig beneath the superficial and identify facts.
• Excellent problem-solving skills to move toward a project’s successful completion 
• Strong blend of business acumen and technical aptitude

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. 

The starting pay range for this role is $50- $54 per hour. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance. BLEND360 also offers a competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families. You can look forward to a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, and EAPs.    

A diverse workforce is a strong workforce  
To deliver growth at BLEND360 and for our clients, we believe as a Talent Solutions Company, we have a responsibility and unique opportunity to positively impact the workforce. Diversity has played a critical role in our history, our growth, and continues to have a profound impact on our success.  We are determined to have equality in the workplace, within our team and as an extension of our clients’ team.   

This is not the work of the moment, and this requires continued learning and purposeful actions.  We are investing resources to understand and improve the sourcing, selection, and retention of the talent we hire, and ultimately the workforce we provide for our clients. We will communicate our journey in the spirit of transparency and shared learning.