Job Type: Contract
Job Category: IT
Job Description
Job Title: Business Analyst with Hadoop and Big Query
Location: Remote
Contract
Job Summary
The Business Analyst will work closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, and analytics teams to analyze large-scale datasets using Hadoop and Google BigQuery. This role focuses on translating business requirements into data-driven insights, supporting reporting, analytics, and decision-making initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather, analyze, and document business and data requirements
- Work with large datasets stored in Hadoop ecosystems and BigQuery
- Write and optimize SQL queries in BigQuery for data analysis and reporting
- Perform data validation, reconciliation, and quality checks
- Translate business questions into data models, dashboards, and reports
- Partner with data engineering teams to support ETL / ELT pipelines
- Support data migration and modernization initiatives (on-prem Hadoop to cloud)
- Create BRDs, FRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Support UAT, defect tracking, and release validation
- Present insights and recommendations to business and leadership teams
Required Skills
Data Analyst