IT Business Data Analyst Sr

Job Summary

An IT Business Data Analyst is a business-facing data professional who bridges business knowledge and enterprise data architecture. This role partners closely with Data Architects, Data Engineers, and business stakeholders to define, document, and govern enterprise data. Responsibilities include translating business concepts into governed data definitions, ensuring clarity around data meaning, lineage, ownership, and reportability, and contributing to the establishment of trusted, high-quality data foundations through data cataloging, data dictionaries, and governance practices. Scope, autonomy, and leadership expectations vary by level.

This position reports to the IT Data Platform Manager and is positioned as drives deliverables, operates independently.

Duties and Responsibilities/Essential Functions

• Drives cross-functional partnership with Data Architecture, Data Engineering, and IT Platform leadership to define and evolve enterprise data specifications, data products, and reporting structures aligned to business strategy and governance standards.
• Drive requirements definition and alignment across business domains, engaging senior stakeholders and SMEs to resolve ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and ensure consistency in data definitions and reportability.
• Establish and enforce standards for enterprise data artifacts, including data dictionaries, business definitions, domains, and business rules, ensuring consistency, scalability, and usability across domains.
• Act as a domain and cross-domain data steward leader, ensuring alignment to enterprise naming standards, governance policies, and consistent definitions; mentor and guide other analysts and stewards in best practices.
• Drive identification, prioritization, and resolution of data quality and data definition issues, driving root cause analysis and partnering with Data Owners and Engineering to implement sustainable fixes.
• Define and standardize Data Transfer Specifications and mapping practices, ensuring reusable, scalable patterns for source-to-target mappings, transformation logic, and data lineage across systems.
• Drive enterprise data catalog adoption and quality, establishing expectations for business context, data classification, stewardship, and usage guidance to improve discoverability and trust in data assets.
• Facilitate and lead strategic working sessions across business and technical teams, aligning on current-state and future-state data models, resolving cross-domain dependencies, and enabling cohesive data product design.
• Ensure enterprise alignment on data classification and reportability standards, including governance of sensitive and regulated data (e.g., PII, PHI, PCI), in partnership with security, compliance, and governance teams.
• Translate complex business needs into scalable, enterprise-ready data specifications, ensuring alignment with medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and downstream data product and analytics requirements.
• Influence data architecture and governance decisions by providing deep business context, identifying gaps, and recommending improvements that enhance data quality, usability, and business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.

• Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or Data Governance Analyst supporting enterprise data initiatives.
• Strong business domain knowledge with demonstrated ability to translate business concepts into structured data documentation.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining: data dictionaries, source-to-target mappings, and data catalogs or metadata repositories.
• Proven experience working with business subject matter experts.
• Experience in technical writing, with the ability to translate ambiguous business input into clear, structured documentation.
• Working knowledge of relational data concepts (tables, columns, keys, relationships) sufficient to collaborate effectively with Data Engineers.
• Ability to operate in an agile, evolving environment with changing requirements and priorities.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across technical and business teams.
• Strong documentation and knowledge transfer capabilities such as process maps and user guides.
• Adaptability and flexibility in response to evolving technologies, organizational priorities, and agile delivery models.
• Prior role as a data steward or governance lead.
• Familiarity with Microsoft data and analytics tools, including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBi.
• SharePoint or similar platforms for documentation and collaboration
• Certifications or training in Business Analysis, Data Governance, or Data Management (e.g., CBAP, CDMP, DAMA-DMBOK familiarity).

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies: 

• Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.
• Nimble Learning: Actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning opportunities.
• Collaborates: Works effectively with colleagues and team members.
• Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer Focus: Supports data solutions that meet business needs.
• Resourcefulness: Seeks guidance and uses resources efficiently to solve problems.
• Manages Ambiguity: Operates effectively even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes, contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  Work beyond 40 hours per week may be required. 

Cirrus is dedicated to a drug free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Our Benefits: Cirrus provides a range of exciting benefits, including:

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, vision, dental, with additional dependent coverage options
• Employer-Paid Coverages: Group term life, short- and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts: FSA and HSA offerings with company contributions to HSA
• Well-being: Calm Health, Employee Assistance Program, and wellness incentives through medical provider
• 401(k) Plan: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after 90 days, with 100% vesting at 1 year of service
• PTO: Various PTO plans starting at 100 hours accrued within the first year
• Additional Time off Benefits: Paid holidays, 2 weeks of Paid Parental leave, paid time for funeral leave and jury duty
• Career Development: Tuition reimbursement program and professional growth opportunities
• Exclusive Discounts: Cirrus Store, partner and marketplace discounts available
• Community & Engagement: Company and employee clubs at various locations

These benefits are designed to support your well-being, growth, and enjoyment at Cirrus!