Senior Business Data Analyst

Hybrid Every other week onsite/5 days in either Westlake, TX, Smithfield, RI or Merrimack, NH Our client is seeking a Senior Business Data Analyst to drive the enablement of large-scale, event-driven platforms and services. In this role, you will leverage a blend of business, data, and technology expertise to help clients integrate messaging and streaming solutions. The organization is advancing event-driven data platforms and governance at enterprise scale. The team partners with cross-functional stakeholders to accelerate onboarding, reduce risk, and improve data integrity through actionable standards and enablement. The role supports exceptional customer experiences by aligning architecture, security, and product objectives. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. Rate: $55.00 to $65.00/hr. w2 Responsibilities • Drive enablement of event-driven platforms and services for client teams. • Guide onboarding to data streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka or Artemis. • Review solution architectures and integration patterns for data quality, security, and compliance risks. • Facilitate data governance processes including metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, retention, and access controls. • Collaborate with platform engineering, security, architecture, and product teams to align on standards and decisions. • Apply AI tools to accelerate governance tasks, summarize designs, and surface anomalies. • Design repeatable intake processes, readiness checklists, decision logs, and onboarding playbooks. • Lead design reviews, working sessions, and remediation coaching with an enablement mindset. • Use SQL and profiling tools to validate data quality, schema compatibility, and downstream impacts. • Create high-quality documentation such as architecture review notes, governance assessments, onboarding guides, and FAQs. • Promote operational clarity with transparent intake paths and readiness criteria. • Advance quality and consistency for schema lifecycle hygiene across event-driven solutions. Experience Requirements • 3 to 5+ years in business or data analysis, data governance, or platform enablement. • Proficiency with SQL and data profiling for validation and impact analysis. • Hands-on experience onboarding teams to data or streaming platforms such as Kafka or messaging systems such as Artemis or equivalent. • Proven ability to assess architectures and integration patterns for data quality, security, and compliance. • Experience facilitating data governance across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, retention, and access controls. • Background collaborating with platform engineering, security, architecture, and product teams. • Familiarity with regulated environments and enterprise data standards such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, or CCPA. • Experience using AI or ML tools to automate or enhance governance activities. • Exposure to event-driven architectures, pub or sub design, and schema management such as schema registry. • Experience building and maintaining documentation, workflows, and onboarding playbooks. • Ability to interpret solution diagrams, sequence flows, and integration designs and identify gaps and noncompliance. • Strong grasp of data classification, lineage, stewardship, access provisioning, retention, encryption, and audit requirements. • Process design skills to build scalable intake processes and decision logs. • Stakeholder management skills to translate technical constraints into business risk and align with platform standards. • Excellence in documentation for reviews, assessments, and guides. • Comfort with Jira or Azure DevOps, Confluence or SharePoint, data catalog and lineage tools, and CI or CD-adjacent workflows. • Strong facilitation and communication skills to lead reviews and coach teams. Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (noreply@eliassen.com, 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process. Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality. 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