Contract Senior Business Analyst BI, Power BI & Microsoft Fabric

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a Business Intelligence and Corporate Analytics team. The ideal candidate will have a strong combination of Business Analysis, Data Analytics, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Data Modeling/Data Architecture, and requirements gathering experience.

This role will work closely with business stakeholders, BI/analytics teams, data engineers, and technical resources to understand business needs and translate them into actionable reporting, analytics, and data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand business objectives, reporting needs, challenges, and opportunities.

• Lead requirements gathering and discovery sessions for BI, analytics, reporting, and data initiatives.

• Translate business requirements into BRDs, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and process/data flows.

• Work with stakeholders to define KPIs, metrics, dashboards, reporting, and visualization requirements.

• Facilitate discussions around Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions and translate business needs into actionable technical deliverables.

• Understand and analyze data architecture, relational data models, data relationships, dependencies, and data flows.

• Identify data quality issues, risks, impacts, gaps, and downstream dependencies during requirements and discovery activities.

• Partner with data architects, data engineers, BI developers, and analytics teams to translate business requirements into data and reporting solutions.

• Support initiatives involving Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, and Data Pipelines.

• Perform current-state/future-state analysis and identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and data modernization.

• Support data analysis and validation using SQL when needed.

• Participate in UAT, implementation, documentation, training, and solution adoption.

• Communicate project findings, recommendations, KPIs, and business value to senior stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field.

• 12+ years of Business Analyst / Business Systems Analyst experience, preferably supporting BI, analytics, reporting, or data initiatives.

• Strong experience with Power BI and Data Analytics/Business Intelligence.

• Experience with data architecture, relational data modeling, data relationships, and dependencies.

• Strong requirements gathering and stakeholder management experience.

• Experience defining KPIs, metrics, dashboard, and reporting requirements.

• Understanding of data quality, data risks, impacts, and dependencies.

• Experience creating BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and facilitation skills.

• Experience working with both business stakeholders and technical/data teams.

• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.

Skills

• Microsoft Fabric

• Power BI

• SQL

• OneLake / Lakehouse

• Data Warehouse / Data Pipelines

• Data Architecture & Data Modeling

• Data Analytics / Business Intelligence

• KPI Development

• Data Quality / Data Governance