Lead Business Analyst (BFSI Domain)

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Analyst to join our team in building a cutting-edge Enterprise Analytics Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for financial institutions. This role will play a critical role in understanding client business requirements, translating them into technical specifications, and ensuring successful delivery of the data warehouse solution.

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit and document business requirements

  - Conduct thorough needs assessments, gather requirements from stakeholders across different departments (e.g., marketing, finance, operations), and document them clearly and concisely.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications

  - Define data models, identify key performance indicators (KPIs), and create data dictionaries.

• Develop and maintain strong client relationships

  - Build and maintain effective communication channels with clients, ensuring their needs are understood and met throughout the project lifecycle.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams

  - Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, and other team members to ensure successful project delivery.

• Conduct data analysis and prepare reports

  - Analyze data trends, identify insights, and prepare reports to support business decision-making.

• Stay abreast of industry best practices

  - Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in data warehousing, business intelligence, and cloud computing.
• Excellent documentation skills BRD, FRD and Use Cases is a must.

Technical Skills

• Domain Knowledge

  - Banking Domain knowledge is must (Preferably US Banking).

• Business Requirement Gathering

  - More than 5 yrs of experience in Banking / Report requirements and create BRD/FRD

• Banking Process

  - Must be well versed with banking processes, terminologies, rules, regulatory policies and correlate with reporting requirements

• Dashboards & Visualization

  - Familiarity and usage of the reporting tools is must

• Agile Methodologies

  - Experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and tools (Jira, DevOps).

• Data Modeling

  - Experience with dimensional modeling, star schema, snowflake schema is a must.

• Data Warehousing Concepts

  - Understanding of ETL/ELT processes, data quality checks, data profiling is a must.

• Cloud Platforms

  - Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts, familiarity with GCP is a plus.

Qualifications

• A minimum Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in a data-driven environment.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing principles and methodologies.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Proficiency in data modeling and data visualization tools.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus.
• Strong client-facing and interpersonal skills.