Senior Functional Analyst

Job#: 3055289
Job Description:
Senior Functional Analyst
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (Hybrid)
Role Overview
The Data Connect Functional Analyst serves as the primary liaison among application teams, business stakeholders, platform engineering, production support, and Data Connect product management. This role leads application onboarding, requirements analysis, backlog readiness, testing coordination, release planning, stakeholder communication, and production issue follow-up. The successful candidate translates data integration needs into functional requirements and coordinates delivery from intake through implementation and operational handoff.
Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison for application teams, business stakeholders, and engineering.
• Translate data integration needs into clear functional requirements.
• Coordinate delivery from intake through implementation and operational handoff.
• Lead application onboarding and requirements analysis.
• Manage backlog readiness, testing coordination, and release planning.
• Handle stakeholder communication and follow-up on production issues.

Required Qualifications
Experience: 7+ years in business analysis, functional analysis, product analysis, data management, or technology delivery. Demonstrated experience gathering requirements and producing business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and use cases.
Technical Skills: Working knowledge of enterprise data integration, data movement, data warehousing, and relational database concepts. Experience with Agile delivery, JIRA, Confluence, backlog management, and software development lifecycle practices. Experience coordinating testing, defect management, release readiness, and implementation activities.
Professional Skills: Analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to manage multiple priorities, drive decisions, surface risks, and maintain clear ownership. Ability to communicate complex data and technology topics in business-friendly language.
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with an enterprise data integration or orchestration platform.
• Experience supporting Treasury, Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, or Data Governance initiatives.
• Familiarity with SQL for data analysis and validation.
• Familiarity with ETL, Informatica, Oracle or Oracle Exadata, Hadoop, Spark, APIs, data lineage, data quality, monitoring, and orchestration concepts.
• Exposure to Autosys, Airflow, CI/CD processes, Ansible, Jenkins, Python, or related delivery tools.
• Experience supporting enterprise platform modernization, production controls, retention, archival, or operational readiness activities.

Work Environment
This position requires a hybrid schedule with a minimum of three days per week on-site.
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