Business Analyst

Business Analyst (Data Program) On-Site (Kansas City, MO) Contract – Hire The Technology Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in a data transformation journey. This role focuses on bridging the gap between business priorities and technical implementation across data platforms, pipelines, and governance solutions. Partnering with Product Owners and delivery teams, the analyst will refine business stories into actionable technical requirements, enabling delivery of high-value, scalable data products. The position requires exceptional communication, technical fluency, and the ability to navigate complex business and IT landscapes to create alignment across stakeholders. Description: • Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, product owners, and technical delivery teams, translating concepts into language that is easily understood by both parties. • Develop a fundamental understanding of your team’s technical systems and your business stakeholders’ processes. • Elicit user and technical requirements for new initiatives and ad hoc requests from multiple internal business practices. • Refine business requirements into detailed technical requirements and acceptance criteria for data pipelines, platform capabilities, and governance tooling. • Collaborate with architects and engineers to align requirements with platform standards, data mesh principles, and compliance needs. • Support the design of CI/CD pipelines, observability practices, and data transformation workflows. • Ensure requirements support data-as-a-product and platform-as-a-product principles (scalability, reusability, security, compliance). • Ensure projects stay on track toward deliverable commitments, occasionally completing trade-off analysis to influence product decisions. • Apply critical thinking to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree • Minimum 4 years of technical business analysis experience • Knowledge of agile development methodologies and practices • Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence or other agile tools is a plus • Ability to write technical acceptance criteria and partner closely with both product owners and engineers • Familiarity with data platforms, data governance, and modern data stack tools such as GCP, Confluent, Kafka, and Apigee • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills Disclaimer: Brooksource, Medasource, and Calculated Hire are part of the Eight Eleven Group family of companies and operate under Eight Eleven Group, LLC. All employees receive the same benefits, policies, and terms of employment. EEO: We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related conditions), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Benefits & Perks: Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc. Pay Disclaimer: The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.