Senior Business Analyst – Data Governance & Grant Programs

Job Snapshot

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst – Data Governance & Grant Programs
Location: Indiana
Work Arrangement: Indianapolis IN, 46204
Employment Type: Contract
Schedule: Hybrid (1-2 Days onsite per week)
Start Date: 12/01/2026
End Date: 11/30/2027
Application Deadline: 10/05/2026
Pay Rate: $40.75

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support business analysis, data governance, documentation, work management, reporting, and stakeholder coordination for a large-scale, grant-funded public health and data modernization initiative.

The Business Analyst will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams supporting data, analytics, reporting, infrastructure, and operational initiatives.

This position will gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business and data requirements; facilitate alignment across stakeholders; and maintain the documentation and work-management artifacts necessary to move initiatives from intake through implementation and operational handoff.

The position will have two primary areas of responsibility:

• Portfolio and Business Operations Support: Requirements gathering, scope definition, work planning, work tracking, status reporting, risk and issue management, stakeholder coordination, and grant-related project documentation.
• Data Governance Support: Data definitions, source-to-target mappings, business rules, metadata, data lineage, data ownership and stewardship, data-quality expectations, decisions, and change-control documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in:

  • Information Technology
  • Computer Science
  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Statistics
  • Analytics
  • Programming
  • Business
  • Related field

  OR equivalent professional experience.

• 2+ years of relevant Business Analyst and/or Project Management experience.

• Experience gathering and documenting business and technical requirements and use cases.

• Experience participating in and facilitating joint requirements-gathering sessions.

• Ability to serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and IT/technical teams.

• Ability to support grant-funded initiatives through organized, accurate, and timely project documentation.

• Experience tracking project deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and status.

• 2+ years of program documentation and compliance tracking experience.

• 2+ years of cross-functional and multi-stakeholder coordination experience.

• 2+ years of relationship-management experience.

• 3+ years of experience supporting project oversight and aligning priorities with strategic initiatives.

• 3+ years of experience identifying root causes and making sound, timely decisions to resolve issues.

• 4+ years of demonstrated critical-thinking, time-management, and communication skills.

• 4+ years of professional experience using Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong change-management and relationship-management capabilities.

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment with multiple and changing priorities.

• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new tools.

• Ability to maintain effective and professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Informatica platforms, including Enterprise Data Catalog.

• Experience leading workshops or training sessions for user communities.

• Experience supporting federally funded, grant-funded, or other externally funded initiatives.

• Experience working with defined deliverables, implementation timelines, reporting requirements, and accountability expectations.

• Experience supporting:

  • Public health
  • Rural health
  • Healthcare
  • Healthcare access
  • Health equity
  • Health systems
  • Community health

• Experience supporting cross-agency, cross-sector, vendor-supported, or multi-stakeholder initiatives.

• Familiarity with grant-funded project documentation, implementation tracking, outcomes reporting, sustainability planning, or audit-ready records.

• Working knowledge of implementing and increasing adoption of business applications.

• Experience with data lineage tools and methodologies.

• Understanding of the data-analysis lifecycle and its application in a business environment.

• Experience with data mapping, lineage, and metadata documentation.

Job Responsibilities

Program & Business Analysis Support

• Support planning, implementation, monitoring, documentation, and continuous improvement of grant-funded data, analytics, reporting, business operations, and data-governance initiatives.

• Work with leadership, business areas, technical teams, and program stakeholders to define and document:

  • Business needs
  • Project scope
  • Deliverables
  • Dependencies
  • Milestones
  • Risks
  • Assumptions
  • Measures of success

• Gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business and technical requirements.

• Translate business needs into clear and actionable requirements for technical delivery teams.

• Maintain accurate and auditable project records, including:

  • Requirements
  • Work items
  • Decisions
  • Action items
  • Status reports
  • Risks
  • Issues
  • Changes
  • Supporting documentation

• Support work planning and work-item tracking using enterprise work-management tools.

• Prepare materials for program management, leadership updates, stakeholder communications, implementation monitoring, and performance reporting.

• Identify dependencies and risks that may affect timelines, data availability, reporting readiness, project outcomes, or program deliverables.

• Document and escalate risks and issues through established governance processes.

• Support the long-term sustainability, usability, governance, and operational adoption of funded data and analytics products, processes, and infrastructure.

Data Mapping & Governance

• Lead or support end-to-end data mapping for priority data assets.

• Document data entities and fields across source, staging, curated, reporting, and analytics layers, as applicable.

• Document:

  • Business definitions
  • Reference and code sets
  • Business rules
  • Transformation logic
  • Reporting calculations
  • Data dependencies

• Coordinate with data owners, stewards, subject-matter experts, analysts, engineers, and vendors to resolve data-definition conflicts.

• Document decisions related to data definitions and governance.

• Support development and maintenance of:

  • Metadata
  • Business glossary entries
  • Data lineage
  • Data dictionaries
  • Mapping inventories
  • Data ownership
  • Data stewardship assignments

• Assist with documenting and monitoring data-quality rules, thresholds, exceptions, remediation activities, and resolution status.

• Develop data-governance scorecards and progress reporting.

• Track metrics such as:

  • Mapping completeness
  • Lineage coverage
  • Glossary completeness
  • Unresolved data-definition issues
  • Data-quality issue severity
  • Time to resolution

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a Business Analyst with experience working at the intersection of business operations, data governance, project coordination, and stakeholder management.

A particularly strong candidate will have experience supporting grant-funded public health or healthcare programs, managing business and technical requirements, maintaining audit-ready program documentation, and coordinating initiatives involving multiple business, technical, vendor, and external stakeholders.

Experience with data mapping, metadata, data lineage, data quality, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog, data governance, work-management tools, and public health or healthcare environments would be highly valuable.