Business Analyst at International Rescue Committee

Job Overview/Summary: 

• The IT-Data team is seeking a Business Analyst (BA) to support the Data Transformation Working Group in identifying and standardizing key business definitions. The agreed-upon definitions are then formalized and deployed into the Enterprise Data Catalog, ensuring a single source of truth. This directly supports AI initiatives by providing models with consistent, well-governed terminology, helping improve data quality, accuracy, and the ability to explain AI outcomes. This role acts as a translator between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that business terms, data definitions, and governance requirements are accurately reflected in Databricks data models and analytics platforms.

Responsibilities: 

• Engage with stakeholders to gather insights on business objectives, processes, and pain points.
• Capture, analyze, and document comprehensive business and functional requirements; secure formal approvals.
• Perform gap analysis to compare current processes, client needs, and system capabilities. 
• Document current-state processes and design future-state processes resulting from data transformation initiatives.
• Support project planning, scope definition, and requirement prioritization.
• Participate in solution design discussions and provide business input to ensure requirements are met.
• Map business requirements to technical capabilities and identify system constraints and dependencies.
• Identify and propose new process improvement opportunities. 
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date system documentation.
• Support deployment and ongoing management of the Enterprise Data Catalog.
• Translate business definitions into technical metadata for tables, columns, schemas, and datasets in Databricks / Unity Catalog.
• Link business terms to data assets, dashboards, reports, and other data products.
• Act as liaison between business users and data engineers to translate requirements into technical specifications and support data modeling.
• Work with data owners and stewards to validate data classification and ensure correct application in Databricks/data catalog.
• Assist in mapping and documenting source systems, data pipelines, data products and datasets
• Participate in testing and validation of delivered solutions to ensure requirements are met. 

Job Requirements: 

Education: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Management, or related experience. 

Work Experience: 

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst providing high quality and advanced analytics for a complex, large not-for-profit organization and/or equivalent analytics experience in private sector marketing and sales
• Proven track record in leveraging leading-edge digital tools, providing advanced analytical reports, and proactively working to help promote data-driven strategic insights
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders.
• Knowledge of process improvement tools like Visio. 
• Non-profit and international humanitarian aid experience a plus