Business Analyst 4

About Dechen Consulting Group (DCG)

Dechen Consulting Group (DCG) is a rapidly expanding, innovative IT Professional Services and Management Consulting company with a track record of more than twenty-five years in delivering skilled professionals to our clients across diverse sectors.

Opportunity Overview

We are currently seeking a Senior Data Analyst for a C2C opportunity in Virginia. This role has the potential to extend over multiple years, with the chance to transition to a direct hire position with our client. We provide healthcare, vacation, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship/transfer. This role offers excellent prospects for career progression!

Complete Description

Our Client is seeking a Master Data Analyst with demonstrated experience in data analytics to work as a key member of the Enterprise Data Asset team. This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Sprint) to analyze datasets to be made available in a cloud-based data management platform that will support the agency to produce master data with data governance.

Responsibilities Work with the project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points. Develop expertise in source system datasets and data lifecycle. Profile source data which may contain a spatial component; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution. Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts. Elicit, record, and manage metadata. Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams, and data flow diagrams. Client and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing. Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress Qualifications:

Required:

The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process Exceptional experience writing complex sql queries for Sql Server and Oracle Experience with Azure Databricks Experience with ESRI ArcGIS Experience with enterprise data management Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) Experience with reporting systems - operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers Preferred:

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

Skills:

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount of Experience

Candidate Experience

Last Used

Advanced understanding of data integrations.• Strong knowledge of database architectures

Required

10 Years

Work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and other data consumers within the business in an attempt to gather and populate data

Required

10 Years

Strong analytical and problem solving skills,• Ability to build strong relationships both internally and externally

Required

10 Years

Ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts,• Ability to effectively prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects

Required

10 Years

Experience with key data warehousing architectures including Kimball and Inmon, and has a broad experience designing solutions using a broad set of da

Required

10 Years

expertise in Data Factory v2,Data Lake Store, Data Lake Analytics, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Synapse

Required

10 Years

strong SQL scripting skills

Required

10 Years

strong skills conducting spatial data analysis

Required

10 Years

Agency Interview Type:

Both Phone and In Person

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid

We Are a People-Focused Company with a deep emphasis on family values and look forward to working with you.

Contact Manager: Anna Mastrogiovanni