Data Analytics Business Analyst (Full-Time Remote, North Carolina)

About this role

The Data Analytics Business Analyst gathers and documents business and technical needs for data and analytics projects, converts them into analytical specifications and test plans, assists in building and validating dashboards, reports, and predictive models, and safeguards data quality and HIPAA compliance across all analytical solutions.

This position is full-time remote. Selected candidate must reside in North Carolina and be willing to travel to the home office (Morrisville, NC) foronsite team meetings as needed.

Responsibilities & Duties

Elicit and Document Analytics Requirements

• Lead discovery meetings to capture business objectives, key performance indicators (KPIs), and reporting needs
• Capture data source requirements, frequency, granularity, and any service level expectations (e.g., refresh windows)
• Produce requirements artifacts such as Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), data modeling diagrams, and acceptance criteria that define the desired analytics outcomes
• Analyze and Profile Data Perform data profiling on source systems (e.g., relational databases, data lakes, SaaS APIs) to understand completeness, consistency, and distribution of fields
• Conduct gap analysis to identify missing attributes or mismatches against reporting specifications
• Document data quality issues, propose validation rules, and define reconciliation procedures that support accurate analytics

Translate Requirements into Analytical Specifications

• Develop detailed functional and technical specifications for data models, dimensional schemas (star/snowflake), and analytical pipelines (ETL/ELT, data wrangling scripts, BI tool configurations)
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and BI developers to align design patterns, naming conventions, and reusable components
• Ensure specifications address scalability, security (including HIPAA related data handling), and maintainability of analytical solutions

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