Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to gather, analyze, document, and validate business and technical requirements.
• Translate business needs into actionable user stories, features, epics, and acceptance criteria for Agile delivery teams.
• Partner with Azure Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Data Engineers, Developers, and Data Analysts to refine requirements and support solution implementation.
• Support enterprise data platform initiatives, including data ingestion, integration, transformation, analytics, reporting, and governance capabilities.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning, and technical discussions with cross-functional teams.
• Manage and prioritize work items using Azure DevOps or Jira while ensuring traceability from business requirements through implementation.
• Develop process flows, workflow diagrams, data flow diagrams, business process documentation, and functional specifications.
• Analyze existing business processes and identify opportunities for automation, modernization, and improved data management.
• Identify technical dependencies, risks, assumptions, and constraints across multiple initiatives.
• Cook with Quality Assurance and business stakeholders during testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and production readiness activities.
• Support Agile delivery by tracking requirements through implementation and validating delivered functionality meets business objectives.
• Prepare project documentation, executive briefings, status reports, and technical documentation as required.

Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technical Analyst, or similar role supporting enterprise IT initiatives
• Experience supporting enterprise data platforms, data modernization, business intelligence, analytics, or cloud-based data solutions
• Experience gathering and documenting complex business and technical requirements
• Experience translating business requirements into user stories, features, epics, and acceptance criteria for Agile delivery teams
• Experience managing Agile backlogs using Azure DevOps or Jira
• Strong understanding of Agile software development methodologies
• Experience working directly with technical engineering teams to deliver cloud-based solutions
• Understanding of Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Power BI (Azure-native), and Azure SQL Database
• Understanding of ETL/ELT pipeline concepts in cloud environments
• Understanding of cloud cost and consumption models, including compute and storage tiers and how usage translates to cost
• Experience supporting and implementing Cloud-Specific Data Governance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences