Job Title: Business Analyst 3
Location(s): Austin, TX
Job SummaryThe client is seeking a senior Business Analyst to support an Enterprise Information Management (EIM) initiative within a Performance Management and Analytics environment. This role serves as a Metadata Ingestion Analyst and strategic liaison between technical IT teams and business program stakeholders, focusing on metadata acquisition, data lineage, business glossary development, analytics enablement, data governance, and AI-assisted metadata management.
The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in business analysis, metadata management, SQL, data governance, and stakeholder engagement. The role requires translating complex technical concepts into business-friendly language while promoting data literacy, supporting reporting initiatives, and leveraging AI technologies for metadata discovery and enrichment.
Key Responsibilities- Serve as the primary liaison between business users, program teams, technical teams, project sponsors, and subject matter experts.
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements related to metadata acquisition, data cataloging, data lineage, and glossary development.
- Connect enterprise metadata cataloging and lineage systems with source applications, databases, and operational systems.
- Automate metadata collection, ingestion, and update processes for high-value enterprise data assets.
- Translate technical findings, metadata concepts, and data limitations into clear and understandable business language.
- Extract, integrate, analyze, and enrich metadata from multiple complex internal and external data sources.
- Collaborate with business users, analysts, and IT leadership to create reporting solutions, dashboards, and visualizations.
- Support metadata enrichment, glossary validation, and business data lineage analysis initiatives.
- Validate AI-generated outputs and identify potential inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and hallucinations.
- Ensure compliance with data governance standards, reporting requirements, and regulatory policies.
- Promote data literacy across the organization through training sessions, workshops, and user education.
- Develop documentation, tutorials, standards, and best practices for metadata management and glossary usage.
- Partner with data engineering, analytics, governance, and program teams to resolve metadata-related issues and improve data quality.
- Provide guidance on interpreting metadata trends and answering complex business and technical data questions.
- Research emerging AI, metadata management, and data governance technologies and best practices.
- Develop standardized AI prompts, templates, and query strategies for metadata retrieval, reporting, and analytics use cases.
Required Qualifications- 8+ years of experience gathering business requirements and translating complex metadata acquisition and operational requirements into actionable business solutions.
- 8+ years of experience explaining technical findings, metadata concepts, and data limitations to non-technical users and leadership.
- 8+ years of experience working in complex data analysis, senior business analyst, systems analyst, or data liaison roles.
- 8+ years of strong SQL experience including data extraction, manipulation, analysis, and enrichment.
- 8+ years of experience collaborating with business users, analysts, and IT teams to develop data glossaries and perform business data lineage analysis.
- 8+ years of experience with stakeholder communication, presentations, facilitation, and relationship management.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business process analysis skills.
- Experience working within Agile development environments.
Preferred Qualifications- 5+ years of experience with Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse environments.
- 5+ years of experience serving as the primary point of contact for metadata and glossary-related analytics initiatives.
- 5+ years of experience working within Health and Human Services, healthcare, government, or other regulated environments.
- 5+ years of experience with data governance, metadata management, and data quality principles.
- Experience with metadata governance platforms such as Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) and Informatica Axon Data Governance.
- Experience promoting organizational data literacy initiatives.
- 2+ years of experience training, mentoring, and supporting users with varying levels of technical expertise.
- Experience developing AI prompts and leveraging AI tools for metadata discovery and knowledge management.
Key Skills- Business Analysis
- Metadata Management
- Metadata Ingestion
- Data Governance
- Data Lineage
- Business Glossary Development
- Data Cataloging
- SQL
- Data Analysis
- Data Quality
- Business Intelligence
- Data Warehousing
- Reporting & Analytics
- Stakeholder Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Documentation
- Informatica EDC
- Informatica Axon
- AI Prompt Engineering
- AI-Assisted Data Discovery
- Data Literacy Training
- Knowledge Transfer
- Agile Methodology
- Communication & Presentation Skills
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