Cloud Bussiness Analyst

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Analyst (BA) to act as a critical liaison between our Clients and the Rackspace technical delivery team. The BA will be responsible for eliciting, analyzing, validating, and documenting business requirements related to data ingestion, processing, storage, reporting, and analytics. This role requires a strong understanding of business analysis principles, data concepts, and the ability to quickly grasp the nuances of airline operations (both passenger and cargo) and their supporting systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with client stakeholders across various departments to understand their business processes, pain points, and data needs.
• Conduct workshops, interviews, and document analysis to elicit detailed functional and non-functional requirements for the data platform.
• Analyze data originating from diverse source systems
• Translate business needs into clear, concise, and actionable requirements documentation (e.g., user stories, use cases, business process models, data mapping specifications).

• Analyse source system data structures and data relationships relevant to business requirements.
• Define business rules for data transformation, data quality, and data validation.
• Develop detailed source-to-target data mapping specifications in collaboration with data architects and engineers.
• Define requirements for reporting, dashboards, and analytical use cases, identifying key metrics and KPIs.
• Contribute to the definition of data governance policies and procedures from a business perspective

• Serve as the primary bridge between the airline client's business users and the Rackspace technical team (Data Engineers, Data Architects).
• Clearly articulate business requirements and context to the technical team and translate technical considerations back to the business stakeholders.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration sessions.

• Create and maintain comprehensive requirements documentation throughout the project.
• Develop process flow diagrams (As-Is and To-Be) to visualize data flows.
• Assist in the creation of test cases and scenarios.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by clarifying requirements and validating results against business needs.
• Support project management activities, including scope management and change request analysis.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst, with a proven track record on data-centric projects (e.g., Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Migration, Data Platform implementation).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex business processes and data landscapes.
• Excellent requirements elicitation techniques (interviews, workshops, surveys, document analysis).
• Proficiency in creating standard BA artifacts (BRDs, User Stories, Use Cases, Process Flows, Data Mapping).
• Exceptional communication (written and verbal), presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders at various levels.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and work effectively in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.
• Understanding of data modelling principles.

• Experience working within the healthcare industry (knowledge of clinical workflows, EHR/EMR systems, medical billing, patient data privacy, care coordination, or public health analytics is a significant plus).
• Specific experience analyzing data from or integrating with systems like Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, or other healthcare-specific platforms.
• Proficiency in SQL for data analysis and querying.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with BI and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Qlik).
• CBAP or similar Business Analysis certification.

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world's leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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