6 month to start contract.
95% Remote but the candidates will be onsite likely 1-2 times per month at one of the following locations : Rosslyn VA , Irving TX, Stamford CT or Ft. Myers FL
About this role:
Our client has exciting career opportunities for a Business Analyst within the Data Strategy and Enablement group. This role will provide support for business processes (including but not limited to Enterprise, Account and Person data management) with a focus on Government, Public Sector and Education.
What you'll do:
- Drive data quality initiatives on improving the accuracy of our Government, Public Sector and Education account data that s leveraged in critical business processes throughout the enterprise with focus on organization hierarchy structures
- Collaborate across business and technical teams, both on site and offshore, to create business deliverables such as Data flow diagrams, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, User Stories and User Acceptance Tests
- Obtain understanding of relevant business area(s), technical options, limitations, costs and risks to communicate tradeoffs and recommend solutions or suggest alternatives to proposed solutions to shape requirements
- Independently drive critical data workshops with business and IT stakeholders to develop requirements and execution process while managing dependencies across teams
- Review data records/attributes on a periodic basis and to ensure data quality and curate data insights that will ultimately improve the transparency and value of data across Gartner
- Ensure quality through adherence to and supporting processes and procedures, including the maintenance of documentation on shared file systems
- Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted; define and execute test cases
- Provide support to other business analysts, business process owners and project managers to help drive business initiatives
What you l'l need:
- 6+ years of experience as a Business/Data Analyst; prior experience in working in Data Warehouse, Master Data Management, Analytics environment a plus
- Knowledge of Government/Public sector organizations, hierarchies and structure required
- Knowledge of Education organizations, hierarchies and structure a plus
- Expert level communication with both technical and non-technical personnel, both oral and written
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills including ability to clearly and concisely gather, interpret, analyze and document Business Process, User and Data Functional requirements in a structured way
- Ability to breakdown complex business problems and workflows into meaningful components that are understandable by various levels
- Well versed with in utilizing tools such MS Excel, MS Word, Google Suite, MS Visio, Lucid Chart, JIRA, Confluence
- Advanced SQL Skills Required
- Basic understanding of data analysis tools and techniques is a plus
- Experience with business intelligence and data visualization systems is a plus (Tableau, Power BI)
- Data governance experience is a strong consideration
- Knowledge and experience with Scrum/Agile methodology
- Completed Bachelors Degree required for consideration
