Temporary Sr. Business Solutions Analyst

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents in more than 40 offices. They are seeking a highly skilled Temporary Sr. Business Solutions Analyst to bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, focusing on data analysis, governance, and Agile delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and document business requirements
• Translate business needs into technical user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria within Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban)
• Maintain and refine the product backlog in collaboration with product owners and delivery teams
• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Ensure requirements are clearly communicated to and understood by development and data engineering teams
• Use SQL to query, extract, and analyze data from multiple systems to validate requirements and ensure data integrity
• Perform data profiling and data quality assessments to identify inconsistencies or anomalies
• Define and document business rules, data transformations, and KPI calculations to support reporting and analytics initiatives
• Validate Power BI dashboards and ensure alignment between source data and business-defined KPIs
• Create and maintain data mapping documentation within Microsoft Purview, linking source systems to target destinations (e.g., Power BI datasets, data warehouses)
• Manage and update the Unified Data Catalog in Purview to ensure data assets are discoverable, properly classified, and well-documented
• Support data lineage tracking and metadata management to ensure transparency across the data lifecycle
• Collaborate with data governance and compliance teams to uphold data quality and stewardship standards
• Work with data engineers, BI developers, and data architects to translate functional requirements into technical specifications
• Support UAT (User Acceptance Testing) by preparing test cases, validating results, and obtaining stakeholder approval
• Ensure traceability between user stories, data mappings, and delivered solutions
• Develop process flow diagrams, use cases, and system interface documentation as needed

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related technical discipline
• 5+ years as a Technical Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or Business Systems Analyst in a data-focused environment
• Proven experience working within an Agile delivery framework
• Strong hands-on experience writing user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria in tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps
• Advanced proficiency in SQL for querying, data validation, and complex data analysis
• Experience with Microsoft Purview (data mapping, unified catalog, lineage tracking)
• Familiarity with Power BI data models, datasets, and KPI validation
• Experience collaborating with data engineers, ETL developers, and data governance teams
• Advanced SQL (joins, aggregations, window functions, data validation)
• Expertise in Microsoft Purview – data mapping, lineage, and unified catalog management
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL pipelines
• Familiarity with Power BI, including DAX logic, datasets, and visualization validation
• Understanding of data governance principles, metadata management, and data quality frameworks
• Experience using Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities in an Agile environment
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently and collaboratively
• Skilled at documentation, requirement traceability, and stakeholder alignment
• Familiarity with Azure data ecosystem (Microsoft Fabric, Fabric Data Factory)
• Understanding of data privacy and compliance frameworks (GDPR, CCPA)
• Experience with data quality or data lineage tools in Purview
• Exposure to Python or other scripting languages for data validation