Senior Business Data Analyst at nLeague

Job ID: 755005

SR Business/ Data Analyst

Client: State of Virigina Department of Transportation

Location: Richmond, VA

Duration: 12 Months

Master Data Analyst

• The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Information Technology Division (ITD) is seeking a Master Data Analyst with demonstrated experience in data analytics to work as a key member of Enterprise Data Asset team. This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Sprint) to analyze datasets to be made available in a cloud-based data management platform that will support the agency to produce master data with data governance.
• Responsibilities include analyzing source systems which contain a spatial component for candidate datasets; documenting business processes and data lifecycle; developing data requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; and testing strategies.
• VDOT is a fast-paced organization with very high standards for work quality and efficiency. This position is expected to handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes.
• Ongoing improvement and efficiency are a part of our culture, and each team member is expected to proactively contribute to process improvements.

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 mock-ups
• 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

Preferred:

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