Cloud Business Analyst
Job Summary
Job Description
We are looking for a motivated Business Analyst to serve as a liaison between clients and the Rackspace technical team. The role involves eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business requirements for data ingestion, processing, storage, reporting, and analytics. The ideal candidate will understand business analysis principles, data concepts, and airline operations. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, conducting workshops, analyzing data from various sources, and translating business needs into documentation like user stories and process models. This position requires defining business rules for data transformation, quality, and validation, as well as creating source-to-target data mapping specifications and requirements for reporting and analytics. Effective communication and stakeholder management are crucial to bridge the gap between business users and the technical team.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Admin, Info Systems, or CS
- 5+ years as a Business Analyst on data-centric projects
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent requirements elicitation techniques
- Proficiency in creating BA artifacts (BRDs, User Stories, Process Flows)
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders
- Ability to manage ambiguity and work in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of data modeling principles
Good to have:
- Experience in the healthcare industry (clinical workflows, EHR/EMR systems)
- Specific experience with healthcare platforms (Epic, Cerner, Meditech)
- Proficiency in SQL for data analysis
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience with BI and data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI)
- CBAP or similar Business Analysis certification
12 skills required
Job Details
Position Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Analyst (BA) to act as a critical liaison between our Clients and the Rackspace technical delivery team. The BA will be responsible for eliciting, analyzing, validating, and documenting business requirements related to data ingestion, processing, storage, reporting, and analytics. This role requires a strong understanding of business analysis principles, data concepts, and the ability to quickly grasp the nuances of airline operations (both passenger and cargo) and their supporting systems.
Key Responsibilities:
Requirement Elicitation & Analysis:
- Collaborate closely with client stakeholders across various departments to understand their business processes, pain points, and data needs.
- Conduct workshops, interviews, and document analysis to elicit detailed functional and non-functional requirements for the data platform.
- Analyze data originating from diverse source systems
- Translate business needs into clear, concise, and actionable requirements documentation (e.g., user stories, use cases, business process models, data mapping specifications).
Data Focus:
- Analyse source system data structures and data relationships relevant to business requirements.
- Define business rules for data transformation, data quality, and data validation.
- Develop detailed source-to-target data mapping specifications in collaboration with data architects and engineers.
- Define requirements for reporting, dashboards, and analytical use cases, identifying key metrics and KPIs.
- Contribute to the definition of data governance policies and procedures from a business perspective
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Serve as the primary bridge between the airline client's business users and the Rackspace technical team (Data Engineers, Data Architects).
- Clearly articulate business requirements and context to the technical team and translate technical considerations back to the business stakeholders.
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration sessions.
Documentation & Support
- Create and maintain comprehensive requirements documentation throughout the project.
- Develop process flow diagrams (As-Is and To-Be) to visualize data flows.
- Assist in the creation of test cases and scenarios.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by clarifying requirements and validating results against business needs.
- Support project management activities, including scope management and change request analysis.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, with a proven track record on data-centric projects (e.g., Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Migration, Data Platform implementation).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex business processes and data landscapes.
- Excellent requirements elicitation techniques (interviews, workshops, surveys, document analysis).
- Proficiency in creating standard BA artifacts (BRDs, User Stories, Use Cases, Process Flows, Data Mapping).
- Exceptional communication (written and verbal), presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders at various levels.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and work effectively in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.
- Understanding of data modelling principles.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within the healthcare industry (knowledge of clinical workflows, EHR/EMR systems, medical billing, patient data privacy, care coordination, or public health analytics is a significant plus).
- Specific experience analyzing data from or integrating with systems like Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, or other healthcare-specific platforms.
- Proficiency in SQL for data analysis and querying.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience with BI and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Qlik).
- CBAP or similar Business Analysis certification.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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