Senior Business Analyst

Ascend Learning, LLC•Burlington, MA

5d•$90,900 - $130,020•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Analyst plays a critical role in the Enterprise Applications team, owning both the clarity and the delivery of our organization’s most complex, ambiguous, or cross-domain business needs. As a senior member of the team, this role partners with business leaders, stakeholders, and technology teams to deeply understand strategic objectives, resolve conflicting or unclear requirements, and set delivery teams up to build meaningful data products that empower decision-making. Combining strong business acumen with deep technical expertise, the Senior Business Analyst independently leads the end –to-end feature lifecycle for enterprise-scale data management and reporting solutions. This role is responsible for balancing competing priorities, making sound decisions in complex environments, and ensuring solutions are accurate, sustainable, and aligned with best practices and organizational objectives. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable in two modes: the patient, consultative work of untangling an ambiguous ask into clear requirements, and the decisive, day-to-day work of delivering solutions to business problems and opportunities. Through a deep understanding of business processes, data ecosystems, and delivery flow, the Senior Business Analyst helps the team deliver high-quality outcomes end-to-end.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field or equivalent experience preferred.
6+ years of experience researching, analyzing, and leveraging data from internal and external resources
6+ years of experience using modern cloud data platforms and BI tools like Snowflake and Tableau; familiarity with AI-assisted analytics tools is a bonus
Deep, hands-on data experience: either as a senior analyst who’s spent years querying and interpreting data or from real experience working within or alongside a data engineering team
A skilled translator who can bring clarity to ambiguous asks that others might struggle to scope
Comfortable with owning a backlog independently with guidance from a product manager
Naturally curious and a little skeptical: able to surface hidden assumptions and pressure-test existing logic and processes
Fluent enough in SQL and data structures to reverse-engineer existing queries, models and reports
Experience working in an Agile development environment, including backlog management, sprint planning hygiene, and prioritization under changing deadlines
A strong communicator who builds trust easily across business stakeholders, Product, BI, and Engineering
A natural mentor who helps less experienced analysts sharpen their translation and requirements-gathering skills

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with AI-assisted analytics tools is a bonus

Responsibilities

Serve as a primary intake owner for incoming business asks, ensuring each request is presented as a clearly stated problem, not a pre-defined solution
Translate business needs into clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria
Document business context and metric definitions in plain language, including grain, filters and exclusions, and source systems
Reverse-engineer existing SQL queries, Tableau and Power BI workbooks, and Excel models to extract business logic and assumptions
Profile raw source data in Snowflake to validate assumptions about structure, quality and completeness before handoff to Data Architect
Synthesize findings into an inventory that gives Architecture, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Business Intelligence Analysts a clear set of rules to build against
Develop early prototypes or wireframes to validate stakeholder understanding before development begins
Own day-to-day delivery needs for your area – sequencing ready work and accepting completed work against the acceptance criteria you defined
Track progress throughout the build, flagging early when delivered work drifts from what was coped, and keeping stakeholders informed of where their ask stands
Partner with Business Intelligence, Engineering, and Architecture to confirm feasibility, usability, and readiness of features
Support user acceptance testing and feedback loops before, during, and after delivery to confirm the solution solves the business problem, and following through to resolution when issues surface
Communicate with internal and external stakeholders in a professional and timely manner throughout the delivery cycle
Act as a mentor to less experienced Business Analysts on translation, requirements-gathering, and stakeholder facilitation, serving as the person the team turns to when a decision needs to be made