About the Job:
We are looking for a Business Analyst to play a key role in client implementation projects, deploying our in-house built Data Intelligence Platform, bridging the gap between business needs and technical execution.
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You will collaborate with clients, solution architects, and the engineering team to gather requirements, define deployment scope, map data flows, and ensure successful platform implementation. Your ability to translate business objectives into clear, actionable requirements will be critical in delivering high-value solutions to our clients across both standard and air-gapped environments.
Work Conditions: On-site, Full-time
Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with client stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business and technical requirements for platform deployment.
- Analyze existing client infrastructure, workflows, and data sources to ensure seamless platform integration.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and requirement sessions with client teams.
- Act as the primary liaison between clients and engineering during implementation.
- Lead technical and business demonstrations of company solutions for internal teams and external clients.
- Collaborate with solution architects and SMEs to define deployment blueprints and integration plans.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers on data discovery, mapping, and flows.
- Support platform setup, environment validation, and data onboarding activities.
- Participate in testing and user acceptance sessions, ensuring that deliverables meet client requirements.
- Identify gaps and propose process improvements for smoother deployments.
- Develop templates and best practices for requirement gathering, documentation, and client onboarding.
- Collaborate with product teams to provide feedback on deployment-related feature requests.
- Provide regular status updates and clear communication to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure alignment between client expectations and engineering deliverables.
- Operate within Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) and air-gapped or isolated data centers, adhering to all applicable security protocols and handling procedures.
- Adapt standard BA workflows to classified-environment restrictions, including device control, document classification markings, and need-to-know principles.
- Manage requirements gathering, documentation, and coordination activities under strict information-security constraints, with no access to external networks.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in data platform deployment/implementation projects.
- Strong understanding of data management concepts: data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse, batch & streaming pipelines, data governance, data quality, and BI tools.
- Strong skills in requirements elicitation, documentation, and stakeholder management.
- Proven ability to lead complex negotiations and resolve critical issues under pressure through swift and strategic decision-making.
- Strong ability to structure large volumes of information and identify and prioritize key insights.
- Exposure to AI/ML-driven solutions or analytics platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management practices.
- Solid grounding in BA fundamentals: requirements engineering (elicitation, analysis, specification, validation), use-case and user-story authoring, gap analysis, and traceability matrices.
- Proven ability to facilitate structured workshops (JAD sessions, design sprints) and drive consensus among competing stakeholders.
- Experience producing high-quality deliverables: BRDs, FRDs, process models (BPMN/UML), data dictionaries, and acceptance criteria.
