Lead Consultant, Business Analyst

Lovelytics • Arlington, VA

1d • $115,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Lovelytics is seeking a strategic and business-savvy Business Analyst to join their Value Realization team. This role serves as a crucial link between business strategy and technical execution, assisting clients in defining, designing, and achieving value from their data, analytics, and AI investments. The Business Analyst will collaborate with business leaders, functional experts, and technical delivery teams to translate business needs into actionable requirements, guide process improvements, and ensure data-driven initiatives yield measurable business impact. The role involves leveraging business acumen and modern tools to synthesize information, identify patterns, and translate complex business and technical challenges into actionable recommendations. This position is not open to sponsorship at this time.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Business Consultant, or similar role in data, analytics, or business transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of how business processes translate into data and reporting needs (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations).
• Proven ability to connect business strategy to data and analytics solutions, driving measurable outcomes.
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to analyze source data, validate business requirements, investigate data quality issues, and support testing and solution design.
• Familiarity with modern data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, GCP) and an understanding of data warehousing, lakehouse concepts, data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and BI reporting environments.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills capable of engaging both executive and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to uncover business challenges, opportunities, decisions, and data needs.
• Lead workshops and working sessions to gather and refine requirements.
• Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, and reporting requirements that support solution design.
• Act as the “bridge” between business leaders and technical teams ensuring alignment on objectives, timelines, and priorities.
• Support technical design and data modeling sessions by ensuring business context, process requirements, and user needs are represented in solution decisions.
• Partner with data modelers and engineers to analyze source systems, validate data definitions, document transformation requirements, and ensure source-to-target mappings accurately reflect business rules and stakeholder expectations.
• Support UAT, testing, and data validation activities using SQL and other tools to verify business requirements, assess data quality, and ensure expected outcomes are achieved.
• Analyze business processes, source data, and reporting outputs to identify gaps, inconsistencies, quality concerns, or opportunities for improvement and recommend actionable solutions.
• Connect requirements and solutions to measurable business outcomes.
• Help define KPIs, business processes, and success measures that enable value realization.
• Support adoption through training, documentation, and stakeholder communications.

Benefits

• Exciting projects with great clients in varying departments and verticals across the world
• The ability to work closely with experienced data engineers and quickly grow and expand your skillset
• The ability to work closely with all sizes of companies, ranging from Fortune 100 to small local businesses
• A workplace where you are encouraged to challenge the status quo and develop new technologies, methodologies, and processes
• A diverse team consisting of data gurus, experience seekers, and entrepreneurial minds that are always pushing to be better

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed