NEWPosted 6 hours ago
Job ID: JOB_ID_4164
Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst
Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid – Onsite Tuesday and Wednesday required)
Employment Type: 12-Month Contract (Extendable)
Citizenship Requirement: GC or USC
Interview Process: 2 Zoom Interviews
About the Role:
Zeal Hire is seeking a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our client’s team. This role requires a blend of business acumen and technical expertise to support the requirements gathering and functional design of an enterprise-level cloud-based data platform. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring the data architecture is scalable, efficient, and meets business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Business & Data Analysis: Gather, analyze, and document requirements for the data repository project, understanding data sources, business needs, and reporting requirements from finance departments. Partner with Finance, HR, and ITS stakeholders to understand business processes, data definitions, and reporting needs. Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications for data ingestion, transformation, and consumption. Create and lead systems requirement documentation standards, including Use Case modeling and User Story creation. Collaborate with the data architect to ensure the planned data repository meets business requirements.
- Data Lake & System Integration: Contribute to the design and evolution of an AWS-based data lake architecture. Work closely with data engineers and architects on integrations using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, S3, Athena, Lake Formation, and QuickSight. Conduct data profiling and data quality analysis using SQL and Python. Develop and maintain mapping documents and source-to-target specifications. Support API-based, batch, and event-driven integrations across enterprise systems.
- Delivery & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, data engineering, analytics, and ITS teams. Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. Create test plans, execute unit testing, and UAT activities for data and integration initiatives. Ensure solutions align with institutional priorities, data governance standards, privacy requirements, and compliance obligations. Communicate technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical personnel.
- Governance, Security & Documentation: Support data governance practices, including data definitions, lineage, access controls, and auditability. Ensure appropriate handling of sensitive financial and payroll/personnel data (PII/PHI). Produce clear, thorough documentation including requirements, data models, process flows, and test scenarios.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Information System, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst or similar role, preferably in data-centric environments.
- Solid understanding of AWS data services (Glue, Lambda, S3, QuickSight or similar).
- Strong experience with financial systems, including budget and planning, payroll, and personnel data.
- Proven experience supporting data integration and analytics platforms, preferably in a cloud environment.
- Strong proficiency in SQL for data querying, analysis, and validation.
- Strong knowledge of Python for scripting and data manipulation tasks.
- Experience with data warehousing, data lakehouse or data lake concepts, ETL processes, and data modeling.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience with tools such as Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian Confluence and SQL Case Tools.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in higher education, specifically finance subject area or other complex enterprise environments.
- Understanding of data governance and concepts such as data architecture, data security, and data quality.
- Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
Key Deliverables:
- Business Requirement Document
- Functional Requirements and User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria and Success Measures
- Source-to-Target Data Mapping
- Business Data Definitions and Glossary
- Functional Specifications and Data Integrations
- Transformation and Business Rule Definitions
- Interface and API Requirement Documentation
- Security and Access Requirements
- Reporting and Analytics Requirements
- Semantic layer and Metric Definitions
- Dashboard and Report Specifications
- Data Classification and Sensitivity Documentation
- Privacy and Compliance Requirements
- UAT Test Scenarios and Expected Results
- Business Validation and Sign-off Artifacts
- Process Flows and Current/Future State Diagrams
- End-User and Stakeholder Documentation
- Knowledge Transfer and Training Materials
Special Requirements
GC or USC required. 2 Zoom Interviews. Onsite Tuesday and Wednesday required. 10/10 Communication skills is a MUST. LinkedIn With Picture. At least 8 or more years of experience. Local and willing to go onsite Tues and Weds.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $70 – $90 per year (Estimated)
Location: Oakland, CA
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Recruiter / Employer: ZealHire Inc.
Email: deep@zealhire.com
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