What are the responsibilities and job description for the Master Data Analyst position at IT Business Consulting?
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 progressQualificationsRequired :
- 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 customersPreferred : Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
- Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete
