Senior Business Data Analyst

Job Title: Senior Business Data Analyst

Location: Irving, TX, USA
Department: Data & Analytics / Cloud Transformation
Job Type: W2

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Business Data Analyst with strong expertise in cloud-based data transformation and a proven ability to build and manage stakeholder relationships across business and technology teams. The ideal candidate will play a key role in driving the migration of on-premise legacy and mainframe systems to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) while ensuring alignment between business objectives, data strategy, and technical implementation.

This role requires a strategic thinker with a blend of analytical acumen, communication excellence, and hands-on experience in multi-cloud data ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary liaison between business units, data engineering, and cloud architecture teams.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to understand business goals, data needs, and transformation priorities.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and actionable data initiatives.
• Facilitate regular cross-functional meetings, updates, and governance reviews.
• Support and guide the migration of legacy on-prem/mainframe data systems to GCP, ensuring business continuity and data integrity.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and validate data pipelines, mappings, and quality frameworks.
• Assist in defining and documenting data lineage, metadata, and governance standards across multiple cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Perform data-driven analysis to uncover opportunities for process improvement and business value creation.
• Develop business cases, impact assessments, and value realization tracking for cloud transformation projects.
• Ensure all analytical outputs and data solutions align with enterprise data strategy and compliance requirements.
• Work closely with project managers, data architects, and business sponsors to ensure timely delivery of milestones.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of business data processes and analytics maturity.

Required Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years of experience as a Business/Data Analyst, with at least 3+ years in cloud or data transformation projects.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale data migrations from on-prem legacy/mainframe environments to GCP.
• Strong understanding of GCP data services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, etc.) and exposure to multi-cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure).
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing senior leaders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Proficiency in SQL, data modeling, and understanding of ETL/ELT workflows.
• Ability to work in agile, fast-paced environments with distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern data architectures (e.g., Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh).
• Exposure to change management and business process re-engineering during technology transformation programs.
• Professional certifications such as Google Cloud Data Analyst, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), or Agile BA are a plus.