Business Analyst (Data Program)

Business Analyst (Data Program)

Location: Kansas City, MO

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: $50.00 $55.00 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

The Technology Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in the client's data transformation journey. This role focuses on bridging the gap between business priorities and technical implementation across data platforms, pipelines, and governance solutions. Partnering with Product Owners and delivery teams, the analyst will refine business stories into actionable technical requirements, enabling delivery of high-value, scalable data products. The position requires exceptional communication, technical fluency, and the ability to navigate complex business and IT landscapes to create alignment across stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between the business stakeholders, product owners, and technical delivery teams translating concepts into language that is easily understood by both parties.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of your team's technical systems and your business stakeholders' processes.
• Elicit user and technical requirements for new initiatives and ad hoc requests from multiple internal business practices.
• Refine business requirements into detailed technical requirements and acceptance criteria for data pipelines, platform capabilities, and governance tooling.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to align requirements with platform standards, data mesh principles, and compliance needs.
• Support design of CI/CD pipelines, observability practices, and data transformation workflows.
• Ensure requirements support data-as-a-product and platform-as-a-product principles (scalability, reusability, security, compliance).
• Ensure projects stay on track towards deliverable commitments, occasionally completing trade-off analysis to influence product decisions.
• Apply critical thinking to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of agile development methodology and practices
• Ability to write technical acceptance criteria and partner closely with both product owners and engineers
• Familiarity with data platforms, data governance, and modern data stack tooling such as GCP, Confluent, Kafka, and Apigee
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence or other agile software

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or applicable years of experience in lieu of degree

Required Experience

• Minimum 4 years technical business analysis experience

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This client is a 100% employee-owned infrastructure engineering, architecture, and construction firm with more than 125 years of history building critical infrastructure across energy, aviation, water, telecommunications, transportation, and healthcare sectors. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and operating from 75+ offices across the country and internationally, the firm employs more than 14,500 employee-owners and generates over $7.4 billion in annual revenue. Teams span civil and structural engineers, architects, environmental scientists, construction managers, program management professionals, and technology specialists who engage with complex, consequential projects requiring deep technical expertise and creative problem-solving.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-13768 Industry: Data & Analytics

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