Master Data Analyst (8002) - Morton

Position Title: Master Data Analyst
Position Status: 12-month contract with rolling extensions 
Schedule: HYBRID
Overview: Our client is looking for a Master Data Analyst for a HYBRID position based out of Richmond, VA.                         
 
Responsibilities:

• Seeking a Master Data Analyst with demonstrated experience in data analytics to work as a key member of Business Analysis and Testing Support 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. 
• 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.
• Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points.
• 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.
• 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.
• Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases.
• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress.

Requirements:

• 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.
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs.
• 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).
• Experience with reporting systems – operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts.
• 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.

About Our Client: Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains a drug-free workplace by both policy and practice. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, or the presence of a non-job-related medical condition. Employment and personnel practices conform to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding non-discrimination. While the Company is committed to following this principle in every facet of employment, all employees share in the responsibility to promote and foster a favorable work environment.