Business Analyst

Job Description

Support to drive data governance initiatives that improve data quality, compliance, and usability across the enterprise. Partner with business, technology, and risk teams to define standards, streamline processes, and enable trusted, well-documented data.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Requirements and Analysis: Elicit, document, and prioritize data governance requirements (policies, standards, controls, metrics)
• Data Quality and Controls: Define DQ rules, thresholds, and KPIs; coordinate issue triage, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
• Metadata and Lineage: Support cataloging, business glossary, and lineage capture; ensure ownership and stewardship are assigned.
• Policy and Compliance: Translate regulatory and internal policy needs into actionable controls and procedures.
• Operating Model: Help design RACI, workflows, and approval gates for data ingestion, curation, and access.

Stakeholder Management:

• Facilitate forums with data stewards, product owners, and engineers; track decisions and actions.
• Process Improvement: Map current/future-state processes; identify automation opportunities and standardize best practices.
• Reporting & Documentation: Maintain governance scorecards; produce insights on data health, risk, and adoption. Collaborate with data governance engineers to ensure the runbooks, design documents,

Qualifications:

• Experience in data governance, data management, or business analysis.
• Familiarity with data catalogs (e.g., Informatica CDGC, MS Purview), lineage tools (e.g., Databrick Unity Catalog), DQ platforms (Informatica CDQ), and metadata standards.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills; adept at translating business needs into technical requirements

Must-Have Skills:

• Data governance expertise: Policies, standards, controls, stewardship, operating models (RACI)
• Business analysis: Requirements elicitation, prioritization, process mapping (current/future state)
• Tools proficiency: Data catalog/lineage/DQ platforms (e.g., Informatica IDMC, MS Purview, Databricks Unity Catalog); familiarity with reporting/BI tools, proficiency with MS suite (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel).
• Stakeholder management: Facilitation, consensus-building, decision tracking across business/tech/risk
• Communication and documentation: Craft clear, concise, audience-tailored narratives. Produce structured reports, executive summaries with crisp visuals, consistent definitions, and traceable metrics. Maintain rigorous documentation (decision logs, RACI, policy mappings) with version control, accessibility, and audit readiness.
• Process improvement and automation: Workflow design, standardization, CI/CD awareness
• Analytical thinking: Insight generation, KPI interpretation, anomaly identification.

Nice-to-have Skills—

• Understanding of basic programming language (e.g., SQL & Python) is an asset.

Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the U.S., Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.

Dexian's brands include Dexian DISYS, Dexian Signature Consultants, Dexian Government Solutions, Dexian Talent Development and Dexian IT Solutions. Visit https://dexian.com/ to learn more.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Dexian will on request provide accommodation for disabilities to support your participation in all aspects of Recruitment, Assessment and selection process.

Note: Dexian Canada will, on request, provide accommodations for disabilities to support your participation in all aspects of our Recruitment and Assessment/Selection Processes.

: Dexian Canada will, on request, provide accommodations for disabilities to support your participation in all aspects of our Recruitment and Assessment/Selection Processes.