Apollo ITS
Apollo ITS is hiring: Master Data Analyst in Richmond
Apollo ITS, Richmond, VA, United States, 23214
Title: Master Data Analyst
Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months
Type: Contract
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Job Description:
Qualifications Required:
Preferred:
Required Skills
Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months
Type: Contract
Note
- Local candidates strongly preferred due to onsite requirement
- Candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA occasionally
- Candidate must have experience working in data management as an analyst
Job Description:
- 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
- Client and document requirements and userstories 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
Qualifications Required:
- 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
Preferred:
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
- Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
- Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete
Required Skills
- Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle
- Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology