What are the responsibilities and job description for the Master Data Analyst - In Person - Richmond, VA position at Novalink Solutions LLC?
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Business Integrated Solutions Division (BISD) is seeking a Master Data Analyst with demonstrated experience in data analytics to work as a key member of the Data Management team. This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Sprint) as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Responsibilities include analyzing problems; documenting business processes and data lifecycle; developing data requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; and testing. VDOT is a fast-paced organization with very high standards for work quality and efficiency. This position is expected to handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes. Ongoing improvement and efficiency are a part of our culture, and each team member is expected to proactively contribute to process improvements.
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 :
Preferred :
Requirements
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
Required
Years
Advanced experience in writing complex queries to analyze data
Required
Years
Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle
Required
Years
Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
Required
Years
