Business Analyst - Data

About the job

Senior Data Platform Business Analyst

Azure Databricks

Contract - long term

Melbourne

$650-700 all in, ex GST

We're supporting a major data modernisation program. It needs an experienced Business Analyst with a strong focus on data who is equally comfortable in a requirements workshop and in a technical design discussion about cloud data platforms.

What you'll be doing

• Running discovery sessions and workshops with business leaders, end users, engineers and product owners to define what the new platform must deliver
• Capturing needs as user stories, functional designs, process views, wireframes and mock-ups within an Agile delivery model
• Defining the non-functional side of a Databricks-based platform on Azure: access control and security, connectivity, ingestion patterns, governance, support model, cost controls, performance and scale
• Reviewing the current data landscape and helping shape the future-state design, including data flows, lineage, source-to-target mapping and a staged migration plan
• Writing integration specifications between source systems and the platform
• Making sure reporting needs, especially Power BI, are properly reflected in platform design
• Brokering trade-offs and agreement across competing stakeholder priorities

What you'll bring

• 3+ years as a BA on reporting, BI or data analytics programs (essential)
• Hands-on involvement in Azure data platform initiatives, ideally with Databricks, ADLS, Data Factory and related Azure services
• Confidence documenting technical and non-functional requirements, not just business ones
• Experience assessing legacy data environments and contributing to target-state and roadmap work
• Strong facilitation, negotiation and written communication skills
• Solid grounding in Agile ways of working

Nice to have

• Exposure to Unity Catalog, data governance frameworks or platform cost optimisation
• Prior work on cloud data migrations at enterprise scale

If you've helped take a data platform from whiteboard to delivery and enjoy being the bridge between business and engineering, we'd like to hear from you.