Senior Business Analyst – Data & Analytics

🔥 12 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

📉 Data Analyst

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Data Elephant

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Data Elephant is a Vancouver-based data and analytics consultancy founded in 2022 that helps organizations modernize data infrastructure and platforms to enable self-service reporting, advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning. They offer end-to-end services including data strategy, cloud migration, data engineering (warehouses, lakes, lakehouses), governance, BI, MLOps, and GenAI proof-of-concept and training, partnering with cloud and analytics providers like AWS, Databricks, and Microsoft. Data Elephant serves enterprise clients across industries (energy, mining, finance, transportation, retail, sports, public sector) and positions itself as a trusted advisor delivering measurable business outcomes through collaboration and long-term partnerships.

📋 Description

• Lead requirements discovery sessions with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, data engineers, architects and analytics teams • Translate business needs and subject matter expertise into clear, complete and technically actionable requirements • Document current-state and future-state business processes, data flows, business rules and reporting requirements • Develop source-to-target data mappings, transformation rules and data definitions • Analyze data to validate requirements, identify quality issues and clarify expected business outcomes • Create epics, features and user stories with acceptance criteria, technical context and measurable outcomes • Break complex initiatives into appropriately sized and sequenced stories that delivery teams can estimate and complete within a sprint • Identify and document dependencies, assumptions, risks, blockers and required decisions • Ensure requirements are reviewed, refined, approved and formally signed off before development begins • Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning and requirements walkthroughs • Maintain a delivery-ready backlog and help sequence work based on dependencies, priorities and team capacity • Support engineering and analytics teams throughout delivery by answering questions and resolving ambiguity • Coordinate business validation, user acceptance testing and final stakeholder approval • Establish and promote standards, templates and best practices for requirements and user-story development • Help business stakeholders understand proposed approaches, sequencing and requirements decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Significant recent experience as a Senior Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst or Data Business Analyst supporting modern data and analytics programs • Strong understanding of modern cloud data platforms and analytical architectures • Hands-on experience with data mapping, data analysis, data transformation requirements and source-to-target documentation • Working knowledge of medallion architecture, including bronze, silver and gold data layers • Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical work implementable by data engineers, BI developers and architects • Extensive experience developing complex user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows and requirements documentation • Strong understanding of Agile delivery, backlog management, story sizing, sprint readiness and dependency management • Experience identifying gaps, challenging unclear requirements and driving decisions to closure • Ability to provide recent, relevant examples of complex user stories and requirements templates contributing to successful delivery • Excellent facilitation, communication and stakeholder-management skills • Confidence working with senior stakeholders and highly experienced subject matter experts • Understanding of data and analytics technology sufficient to communicate effectively with technical teams and produce implementation-ready requirements