Business Analyst 3 #: 25-13971

Description: WHQ, open to relocation but please provide a detailed moving plan. They must be able to start in person - NO exceptions Contract dates will adjust to start date. HM is OOO for wellness week, but will look at resumes once returns to office. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Business Analyst Job Description For Cloud Governance Role Overview and Responsibilities The position of Business Analyst (Cloud Governance) is critical in enabling organizations to effectively utilize cloud technologies while ensuring compliance, security, cost efficiency, and operational excellence. This role bridges our client between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring that cloud governance strategies and capability delivery align with organizational goals and policies/standards. With a unique blend of analytical, technical, and communication skills, this position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on achieving our cloud strategy in which governance in critical to driving standardization, cost and risk reduction. This position is critical to helping create a culture compliance and transparency. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of working with stakeholders to develop robust requirements documentation and working with the engineering teams to deliver products that meet the requirements. Key Responsibilities • Act as a liaison between cloud governance team, platform owners / business domains, ServiceNow, CIS, and other stakeholders to ensure business requirements and interfaces are fully flushed out so that the engineering team can deliver governance platform capabilities. • Interface with platform / rule owners across the enterprise to ensure new standards / rules governing the cloud infrastructure, are defined and documented with clearly outlined requirements for compliance detection and measurement. • Partner with engineering team to design and define clear requirements for delivering policy as code in support of all cloud governance capabilities (detection, notification, and reporting). • Aid Cloud Governing Body with standard / rule documentation; facilitation of standard/rule approval, publication and communication; and lifecycle management. • Working with platform / rule owners, facilitate exception handling process when standards / rules cannot be adhered to. • Serve as empowered liaison to interface with adjacent teams (e.g. Service Now, pipeline deployment team, CIS) that are responsible for feeding compliance data into cloud governance, and ensure requirements, design, and delivery expectations are met. • Analyze cloud governance dashboards and reports to identify trends, inefficiencies, and risks associated with all compliance metrics. • Present data based findings and actionable recommendations to stakeholders (including leaders) to improve compliance metrics, adoption, and cloud governance practices. • Develop and communicate guidance documents to educate stakeholders on cloud governance principles, capabilities, and best practices. • Promote a culture of accountability and continuous improvement in cloud governance. Required Skills And Qualifications Technical Expertise • Proficiency in SQL for querying data for insights. • Familiarity with AWS cloud platform as it relates to data engineering and data science. • Familiarity with lucid or other diagramming software. Analytical Skills • Ability to analyze complex data sets to extract meaningful insights. • Experience in data visualization tools like Databricks, Athena, or Tableau. Communication and Collaboration • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. • Strong collaboration skills to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams. • Experience with Confluence and Jira Education and Experience • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field. • 5+ years of progressive analytics and data visualization experience • Experience using tools such as Excel, Database and Data Warehouse applications (postgress or some sql db, databricks or equivalent) and others to directly query, assess, and analyze data to meet business needs Success Metrics The effectiveness of the Business Analyst (Cloud Governance) can be measured by: • Successful implementation of governance policies/standards utilized across the organization. • Successful implementation of cloud governance platform capabilities as defined by platform/rule owners and cloud governance engineering team initiatives. • Successful delivery of data based metrics for decision making. • Positive feedback from stakeholders on cloud governance initiatives.