Business Data Analyst

Job Title: Business/Data Analyst
Position: Senior Software developer
Experience:6+ yrs
Main location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full Time

. Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand business objectives, processes, challenges, and requirements.
. Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
. Translate business requirements into user stories, use cases, process flows, and technical/data requirements.
. Perform data analysis, profiling, validation, and reconciliation across multiple data sources.
. Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and actionable insights.
. Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, KPIs, and performance metrics to support business decision making.
. Write and execute SQL queries for data extraction, analysis, validation, and troubleshooting.
. Work with business and technical teams to define data mappings, business rules, transformation logic, and data quality requirements.
. Support data integration, migration, and ETL/ELT initiatives by validating source to target mappings and transformation rules.
. Perform data quality assessments and identify data inconsistencies, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
. Create process documentation, including current state and future state workflows.
. Partner with developers, data engineers, architects, QA teams, and product owners throughout the solution delivery lifecycle.
. Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by developing test scenarios, validating results, managing defects, and coordinating business sign off.
. Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
. Communicate analytical findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
. Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and data driven decision making

Essential skills: 

. Strong experience in business analysis and data analysis.
. Strong requirements gathering, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
. Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear functional and technical requirements.
. Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.
. Proficiency in SQL for querying, analyzing, and validating data.
. Experience working with databases and data platforms such as: SQL Server Oracle Hadoop
. Experience defining and monitoring KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and reports.
. Familiarity with REST APIs and system integrations for data analysis and validation.
. Experience creating: Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs) User stories and acceptance criteria Process flows Data mapping documents Source to target mappings
. Proficiency with requirements and collaboration tools such as: Jira Confluence
. Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
. Experience supporting UAT, defect management, and production validation.
. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
. Strong presentation and stakeholder management capabilities.
. Ability to work effectively across business, data, and technology teams.
. Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high quality results within established timelines.