Senior Data Platform Business Analyst
Azure Databricks
Contract - long term
Melbourne
$650-700 all in, ex GST
We're supporting a major data modernisation program. It needs an experienced Business Analyst with a strong focus on data who is equally comfortable in a requirements workshop and in a technical design discussion about cloud data platforms.
What you'll be doing
- Running discovery sessions and workshops with business leaders, end users, engineers and product owners to define what the new platform must deliver
- Capturing needs as user stories, functional designs, process views, wireframes and mock-ups within an Agile delivery model
- Defining the non-functional side of a Databricks-based platform on Azure: access control and security, connectivity, ingestion patterns, governance, support model, cost controls, performance and scale
- Reviewing the current data landscape and helping shape the future-state design, including data flows, lineage, source-to-target mapping and a staged migration plan
- Writing integration specifications between source systems and the platform
- Making sure reporting needs, especially Power BI, are properly reflected in platform design
- Brokering trade-offs and agreement across competing stakeholder priorities
What you'll bring
- 3+ years as a BA on reporting, BI or data analytics programs (essential)
- Hands-on involvement in Azure data platform initiatives, ideally with Databricks, ADLS, Data Factory and related Azure services
- Confidence documenting technical and non-functional requirements, not just business ones
- Experience assessing legacy data environments and contributing to target-state and roadmap work
- Strong facilitation, negotiation and written communication skills
- Solid grounding in Agile ways of working
Nice to have
- Exposure to Unity Catalog, data governance frameworks or platform cost optimisation
- Prior work on cloud data migrations at enterprise scale
If you've helped take a data platform from whiteboard to delivery and enjoy being the bridge between business and engineering, we'd like to hear from you.
