Job Title: Business Analyst II Job Location (Onsite, NO REMOTE): Cary, NC or Carrolton, TX
Responsibilities: The Business Analyst II is a critical partner to the Product Owner/Product Manager and Scrum Team, responsible for translating strategic goals into actionable product requirements and measuring the overall effectiveness of modernization initiatives. This role provides data-driven insights and process support, ensuring goals related to feature delivery, process efficiency, and risk mitigation are met and continuously tracked.
The Business Analyst II will:
Translate data-driven insights into actionable recommendations, partnering with Product Owners to ensure analysis results in measurable strategic or operational improvements.
Establish post-implementation tracking to measure and validate the actual business value and impact realized from product changes or strategic recommendations.
Proactively identify and communicate emerging risks, optimization opportunities, or performance gaps to Product Leadership, translating complex analytical findings into clear business implications for strategic decision-making.
Partner with the Product Owner to define, document, and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements for development.
Actively participate in backlog grooming and prioritization sessions to ensure a well-defined and ready-to-deliver backlog.
Support the Scrum Team by testing functionality as it’s being delivered and ensuring it meets the defined acceptance criteria.
Engage directly with business stakeholders and end-users to understand, document, and prioritize new features and enhancements.
Lead the triage and troubleshooting of production issues, collaborating with engineering and business teams to ensure timely resolution and root cause analysis.
Analyze and report on the effectiveness of the data governance tool/function, measuring its contribution to accelerating time-to-insight and building data trust.
Track data quality and integrity metrics during Data Ingestion & Lineage (Legacy to Snowflake via Pennypipe), including supporting automated reconciliation tests.
Develop and monitor KPIs related to the Policy & Governance Framework to demonstrate progress in Risk Mitigation and Compliance.
Develop metrics to monitor the rate of automatic resolution for failed Pennypipe replication jobs, ensuring the goal of achieving high Operational Resiliency and "zero business-critical reporting outages" is met.
Support the evaluation of external governance platforms (e.g., DataHub/Collate/Sifflet) with data-driven cost-benefit analysis.
Qualifications:
4 Year college degree (Bachelor) or equivalent work experience
Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), including writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and managing a product backlog.
Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, with a proven ability to define, measure, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for complex technical platforms.
Tool Expertise: Tableau, Sigma, Power BI, BI toolset
Proficiency with data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake) and SQL, BI tool analytics (e.g., Sigma), and an understanding of data governance/metadata concepts.
Experience in monitoring data quality, tracking data lineage, and assessing migration risk.
Ability to synthesize complex analytical findings into clear, concise reports and presentations for both technical and business stakeholders.
Experience with JIRA, Scrum, Kanban, Sprint Planning
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Location
Cary, NC
Job Type
Full-time
Skills
Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Atlassian JIRAunmatched
Backlog Prioritizationunmatched
Business Analysisunmatched
Business Intelligenceunmatched
Business Intelligence Softwareunmatched
Business Strategyunmatched
Cost Benefit Analysisunmatched
Data Analysisunmatched
Data Qualityunmatched
Data Warehousingunmatched
Establish Prioritiesunmatched
Functional Testingunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Kanbanunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Metadataunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Operational Improvementunmatched
Operational Measurementunmatched
Operational Strategyunmatched
Performance Analysisunmatched
Performance Metricsunmatched
Power BIunmatched
Product Backlogunmatched
Product Managementunmatched
Qualitative Analysisunmatched
Quality Metricsunmatched
Quality Monitoringunmatched
Quantitative Analysisunmatched
Reconciliationunmatched
Replication and Remote Mirroringunmatched
Requirements Managementunmatched
Risk Analysisunmatched
Risk Managementunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
Snowflake Schemaunmatched
Sprint Planningunmatched
Strategic Analysisunmatched
Tableauunmatched
Technical Presentationunmatched
Test Automationunmatched
Time Managementunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched
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