Lead BA– Market Data Transformation & Zema Enterprise Implementation

About the Role

This organization is seeking a senior business analyst to drive the functional delivery of an enterprise-level market data transformation initiative. The successful candidate will spearhead the definition of business and data requirements, curve management and migration processes, reporting modernization, and business adoption. Acting as a critical liaison, this professional will coordinate efforts across trading, risk, analytics, implementation vendors, architecture, and data engineering teams to ensure a seamless system implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder workshops and define comprehensive requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for data platforms and report deliverables.
• Define curve logic, validation, publication schedules, history, fundamentals, and metadata aligned to enterprise data delivery.
• Define source-to-target mappings, validation, parallel-run, reconciliation, and sign-off controls for migration activities.
• Inventory and rationalize legacy-dependent spreadsheets, models, and reports, establishing functional designs for transition to modern reporting and automated solutions.
• Partner with implementation teams to assess platform capabilities, resolve functional gaps, guide the roadmap, and support system cutover.
• Define future-state workflows, ownership, governance, and support models while leading user acceptance testing and training.
• Establish ownership, data quality monitoring, exception handling, lineage, and audit controls.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field of study.
• Experience: Ten or more years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Consultant, including functional leadership on large-scale transformation programs and facilitation with commercial stakeholders and third-party SaaS implementation teams.

Skills

• Deep commodity trading market data expertise, including pricing, curve construction, fundamentals, and risk workflows.
• Proven experience with data migration, source-to-target mapping, lineage, data quality, and governance frameworks.
• Experience defining requirements for Snowflake, Power BI, and governed self-service reporting platforms.
• Advanced Excel skills, including working knowledge of VBA and macros, with experience remediating end-user computing tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with Zema Enterprise implementations and Morningstar Marketplace migrations.
• Industry experience in energy, LNG, gas, power, or commodity trading environments.
• Background in market data platform modernization and consulting on large-scale transformation programs.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans. We provide an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Additional benefits include an HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP), corporate discount savings, and professional development opportunities such as on-demand training, certification prep, and access to technical and leadership resources.