Sr Business Analyst

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Washington, DC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Position Summary: Reporting to the Digital Finance Solutions Architect, the Senior IT Business Analyst (Sr. IT BA) supports the BPG Finance organization and serves as the primary liaison between Finance and IT for change activity within the SPoT Finance Data Platform. This role leads end-to-end change execution across data ingestion, transformation, curation, modelling, and consumption layers. The Sr. IT BA ensures Finance-driven initiatives are clearly defined, thoroughly assessed, governed, and delivered with strong quality, control, and business alignment within an enterprise data environment.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in computing science, information systems or a similar discipline and 7+ years relevant job experience is essential.
• Significant experience supporting Finance-led change initiatives within enterprise data platform.
• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into structured, actionable delivery artifacts.
• Strong SQL skills and solid understanding of dimensional modelling, schema evolution, metadata/lineage, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience defining and monitoring data quality rules, reconciliation controls, and governance-aligned data assets.
• Experience leading UAT and managing cross-functional delivery.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with structured prioritization and attention to detail.
• Advanced knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices
• Experience working with cross-functional, global teams
• Ability to influence and build consensus across organizational levels
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities

• Lead BPG Finance Change Delivery: Serve as the senior IT BA for Finance-driven initiatives impacting the SPoT Finance Data Platform.
• Translate Finance reporting, analytics, and regulatory requirements into structured epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform comprehensive impact assessments across source systems, pipelines, curated datasets, models, dashboards, and downstream consumers.
• Coordinate change activities including cutovers, migrations, backfills, and post-deployment stabilization.
• Ensure full traceability from requirements through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Bridge Finance and IT: Act as the primary liaison between BPG Finance and IT Data Engineering teams.
• Facilitate solution design workshops covering source onboarding, schema evolution, transformation logic, dimensional modelling, partitioning, aggregation strategies, and consumption patterns.
• Define and enforce data contracts, KPI definitions, modelling standards, and data quality controls.
• Partner with Product Owner and Scrum Master to maintain a prioritized backlog aligned to Finance priorities and platform commitments.
• Proactively identify and resolve risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers.
• Governance, Quality & Operational Control: Define non-functional requirements including data quality thresholds, security and access controls, performance SLAs, reliability, and auditability.
• Lead testing readiness across unit, integration, reconciliation, data quality validation, performance testing, and UAT of curated datasets and consumption assets.
• Establish monitoring for data quality, freshness, reconciliation accuracy, and usage trends.
• Lead root-cause analysis of data issues and implement preventative controls and operational runbooks.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation including BRDs/FRDs, technical specifications, data dictionaries, KPI definitions, process maps, runbooks, and change logs.

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior