Business Data Analyst (Power Bi)

Position: Business Data Analyst (Power BI)

Location: Greater Boston area, MA - Hybrid

Job Type: Contract

Duration: 6 months

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Business Analyst with expertise in Power Platform, particularly Power BI, to join our dynamic team.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop functional and technical specifications that satisfy business requirements.
• Develop and deliver technical support, design documents and task lists in a timely and professional manner.
• Maintain application or system knowledge base.
• Analyze business requirements and their impact on services and features and participate in design of all assigned systems.
• Balance multiple initiatives/projects that overlap each other while meeting project specific implementation dates.
• Transform business specifications into clear and concise technical requirements.
• Proactively research and document potential issues discovered during day-to-day system usage
• Partner with customers to gain a solid understanding of their business processes that need to be supported by the assigned application/ system.
• Clearly and concisely communicate status of all assigned tasks to management and users according to published workflows.
• Document system administration tasks, support procedures, troubleshooting documents as appropriate.
• Understand technical limitations and reiterate those to business stakeholders; then work with the business to see if additional application/ specialization needs can be met.

Skills and Qualifications (Special Skill Set, Abilities & Knowledge)

• Strong written and verbal communication with a diverse user group, including executives, managers, and end users.
• Strong relationship building abilities with diverse stakeholders at varying levels and with cross-functional teams.
• Strong expertise in using Power Platform tools, particularly Power BI.
• Experience reviewing applications/ systems for gap analysis.
• Proficiency in data modeling, DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), and M (Power Query Formula Language).
• Experience leading requirement gathering sessions, with proven ability to write clearly and concisely,
• Proven understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Experience in business analysis, project management or in a technical liaison capacity