Business Analyst Data Lakehouse Program

About the Role

E-Solutions is seeking a Business Analyst to join the Data Lakehouse Program. This full-time position, based in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, focuses on data-related initiatives within the banking and financial services sector. The role requires over 10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage with business, IT, EDM, DWH, Data Governance, and reporting stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Conduct workshops to understand business processes, reporting needs, and data consumption requirements.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and user stories, managing traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Analyze source systems, data flows, and business processes, supporting logical and physical data model validation aligned with FSLDM and FSAS standards.
• Review and validate source-to-target mappings, transformation rules, and business logic, ensuring accurate capture of business definitions, data semantics, and reporting requirements.
• Define and validate business data quality rules, supporting data profiling, reconciliation, and validation activities across various data layers.
• Analyze data discrepancies and collaborate with technical teams for remediation, participating in defect triage, root cause analysis, and resolution tracking.
• Collaborate with reporting teams to understand report logic and dependencies, supporting the mapping of legacy reports to new Gold Layer data structures.
• Validate data readiness and business acceptance for report repointing activities, facilitating business sign-off and UAT approval processes.
• Prepare and review SIT/UAT scenarios and test cases, coordinating business testing activities and validating functional and data requirements against implemented solutions.
• Support performance and business validation reviews.
• Prepare BRDs, Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Data Mapping Documents, Process Flows, and User Stories.
• Maintain requirement traceability matrices, issue logs, and decision registers.
• Support data governance, metadata, lineage, and compliance initiatives, participating in project governance, status reporting, and stakeholder communication.

Key Deliverables

• Business Requirement Documents (BRD)
• Functional Specifications
• Source-to-Target Mapping Validation
• Data Reconciliation Reports
• UAT Sign-off Documentation
• Report Repointing Support Artifacts
• Data Model Review & Validation Documents

Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant business analyst role.
• Demonstrated experience with data-related initiatives, preferably within the banking and financial services sector.
• Proficiency in gathering and documenting requirements from diverse stakeholders.
• Experience with data analysis, data modeling support, and data quality validation.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, within a program focused on advancing data infrastructure in the financial sector.