Data Business Analyst at Cloud Decisions, London, to £450 per day
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What you'll do
- Leading discovery workshops with operational, forecasting, product, IT and data stakeholders.
- Capturing current-state processes, systems, workflows and data flows.
- Identifying bottlenecks, manual processes, risks and improvement opportunities.
- Developing future-state processes and operating-model recommendations.
- Gathering and documenting functional, non-functional and business requirements.
- Producing process maps, BPMN diagrams, data-flow diagrams, user stories and requirements backlogs.
- Analysing data ownership, quality, stewardship, lineage, metadata and governance requirements.
- Supporting the creation of data dictionaries, business glossaries, KPI definitions and data-quality rules.
- Working with architects and data engineers to validate requirements and define acceptance criteria.
- Facilitating playback sessions and securing stakeholder agreement on key deliverables.
- Supporting UAT, business readiness and solution validation where required.
What they're looking for
- At least five years' Business Analysis experience.
- Previous experience supporting data, analytics or platform-transformation programmes.
- Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience documenting complex business processes and data flows.
- A solid understanding of data governance, lineage, quality and ownership.
- The ability to translate between business stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.
- Experience producing structured, delivery-ready documentation.
- Confidence operating in ambiguous environments with Legacy systems and limited existing documentation.
- Availability to complete an 11-day, non-consecutive engagement.
Nice to have
- Microsoft Fabric.
- Azure Data Platform.
- Microsoft Purview.
- Data warehousing.
- Power BI.
- Data migration or modernisation.
- Data life cycle and governance frameworks.
- Telecommunications, research or data-product environments.
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
Business Analyst - Data Platform Transformation
Contract: 11 days, delivered on a non-consecutive basis
Rate: Up to £450 per day
IR35: Outside IR35
Location: London/Hybrid
We're supporting one of the UK's most respected Azure specialist MSPs as they shape a strategic data platform transformation programme.
They need an experienced Business Analyst who can get up to speed quickly, lead focused discovery sessions and bring structure to a complex environment involving Legacy systems, undocumented processes and significant volumes of data.
You'll bridge the gap between operational stakeholders and technical delivery teams-turning ambiguous requirements into clear process maps, data requirements and actionable recommendations that will directly influence the future platform design.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading discovery workshops with operational, forecasting, product, IT and data stakeholders.
- Capturing current-state processes, systems, workflows and data flows.
- Identifying bottlenecks, manual processes, risks and improvement opportunities.
- Developing future-state processes and operating-model recommendations.
- Gathering and documenting functional, non-functional and business requirements.
- Producing process maps, BPMN diagrams, data-flow diagrams, user stories and requirements backlogs.
- Analysing data ownership, quality, stewardship, lineage, metadata and governance requirements.
- Supporting the creation of data dictionaries, business glossaries, KPI definitions and data-quality rules.
- Working with architects and data engineers to validate requirements and define acceptance criteria.
- Facilitating playback sessions and securing stakeholder agreement on key deliverables.
- Supporting UAT, business readiness and solution validation where required.
Key Deliverables
Your outputs are likely to include:
- Discovery and gap-analysis reports.
- Current and future-state process documentation.
- Business requirements and user stories.
- Business process and data-flow diagrams.
- Data lineage and governance documentation.
- Data dictionaries and business glossaries.
- Stakeholder analysis and acceptance criteria.
- Business-readiness recommendations.
What We're Looking For
- At least five years' Business Analysis experience.
- Previous experience supporting data, analytics or platform-transformation programmes.
- Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience documenting complex business processes and data flows.
- A solid understanding of data governance, lineage, quality and ownership.
- The ability to translate between business stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.
- Experience producing structured, delivery-ready documentation.
- Confidence operating in ambiguous environments with Legacy systems and limited existing documentation.
- Availability to complete an 11-day, non-consecutive engagement.
Desirable Experience
Exposure to any of the following would be beneficial:
- Microsoft Fabric.
- Azure Data Platform.
- Microsoft Purview.
- Data warehousing.
- Power BI.
- Data migration or modernisation.
- Data life cycle and governance frameworks.
- Telecommunications, research or data-product environments.
- Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart or Miro.
This would suit a senior Business Analyst who enjoys complex discovery work, knows how to uncover hidden dependencies and can quickly turn stakeholder knowledge into practical deliverables.
Apply now or contact Cloud Decisions for a confidential conversation.
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