Master Data Analyst

 

Description:

Job: Master Data Analyst - In Person interview

Location : 1401 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219

***MUST HAVE PREVIOUS WORKING EXP WITH STATE/FEDERAL CLIENT.

Interview mode: In Person Only

Candidate must be able to work onsite 3 days a week.

Local candidates in Richmond, VA, strongly preferred due to onsite requirement

**local candidates strongly preferred due to onsite requirement

**candidate must have experience working in data management as an analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and data flows.

• Develop expertise in the customers’ datasets and data lifecycle.

• Profile source data; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution.

• Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts.

• Conduct data attribute mapping back to the data source.

• Elicit, record, and manage metadata.

• Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams.

• Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing.

• Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff.

• Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management.

• Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes.

• Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog.

• Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.

• Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions.

• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress

Qualifications

Required:

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts.

• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology.

• 5+ year of experience writing complex queries to analyze data.

• Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories.

• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process.

• Experience with enterprise data management.

• Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server).

• The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers.

 

Preferred:

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

• Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking

• Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete