Data Specialist

Lead Functional Business Data Analyst - Data Lake Assessment (Public Sector) / Data Engineering Lead Analyst

Location: ABQ, New Mexico

Long term Contract

Required qualifications

• 8+ years as a business or data analyst, with at least 3 years leading data integration, data warehouse or data lake assessments or requirements.
• Strong data modeling literacy: conceptual and logical models, entity relationships, master and reference data concepts.
• Hands-on data profiling and analysis with SQL. Comfort with Excel; Python is a plus.
• Experience writing source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries and business glossaries.
• Proven facilitation of cross-departmental requirements workshops with non-technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of modern data platforms and medallion/lakehouse concepts.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills, including presenting findings to leadership.
• Experience defining master data management rules, including golden record, survivorship and match/merge logic.
• Experience applying data quality frameworks, including quality dimensions, metrics and scorecards.
• Experience analyzing unstructured data and defining document metadata requirements.
• Experience writing Agile user stories in Azure DevOps