Senior Business Analyst (Metadata management with Data Governance)

Roles & Responsibilities

- Engage with business stakeholders to understand business processes, reporting requirements, KPIs, regulatory requirements, analytics use cases, and data needs.

- Conduct requirement workshops and translate business requirements into clear functional and data requirements.

- Develop Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and data requirements.

- Identify the business data elements required to support reports, dashboards, analytics, and downstream applications.

- Ensure requirements are traceable from the original business need through implementation and validation.

Skill/Requirement

1. Business Analysis & Requirement Gathering

- Strong experience in requirement gathering, stakeholder management, and conducting workshops.

- Expertise in preparing BRDs, FRDs, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

2. Data Analysis & Source-to-Target Mapping

- Strong experience in data analysis and source-system analysis.

- Expertise in Source-to-Target Mapping (STTM).

3. Data Ingestion & Data Engineering Concepts

- Good understanding of enterprise data ingestion processes.

- Knowledge of full loads, incremental loads, Change Data Capture (CDC), batch, and near-real-time processing.

4. Data Transformation & Data Modelling

- Strong understanding of data transformation and business-rule implementation.

- Knowledge of relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architecture.

5. Data Governance & Metadata Management

- Experience working on data governance initiatives.

- Understanding of Critical Data Elements (CDEs), data ownership, data stewardship, and data domains.

- Exposure to Collibra, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, or Alation is preferred.