Lead Business (Data
Reporting) Analyst
Washington, DC (Onsite)
Role Summary
Lead requirements management, reporting strategy, KPI definition, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement for enterprise reporting and analytics initiatives. Act as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
Lead discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and current-state/future-state analysis.
Gather, analyze, prioritize, and document business, data, reporting, and nonfunctional requirements.
Define KPIs, scorecards, business metrics, semantic-model requirements, and reporting standards.
Create epics, user stories, process models, data mappings, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
Lead data validation, reconciliation, discrepancy investigation, and reporting-quality activities.
Partner with architects, data engineers, and BI developers to shape implementable solutions.
Lead UAT planning, execution, defect resolution, traceability, and business sign-off.
Support backlog refinement, release planning, reporting governance, and mentoring of analysts.
Required Skills
Business analysis, requirements management, SQL, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, dbt, dimensional modeling, KPI definition, data reconciliation, UAT, Agile/Scrum and stakeholder management.
Experience
10+ years of Business Analysis experience, including 5+ years supporting or leading reporting and analytics programs.