Sr Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics

Company Description

Why We Exist

National Vision is one of the largest optical retail companies in the U.S. with over 1,200 stores in 40 states and Puerto Rico.We help people see their best to live their best through our optical products and services. For more than 30 years, we have been improving lives by providing eye care for value-seeking consumers.

We are hiring for a Sr. Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics to join our growing team!

 

Job Description

The National Vision Data & Analytics (D&A) team is seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst to serve as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and our data engineering and analytics development teams. This role involves eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements to support the design and delivery of data solutions. The ideal candidate combines strong stakeholder management skills with a solid understanding of data

What Would You Do? The Specifics.

• Represent the D&A team on assigned projects, building a positive relationship with users across several business units.
• Lead requirements gathering with business stakeholders to translate business needs and requests into documented technical requirements for the Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI development teams.
• Use SQL to perform data exploration and analysis to better understand how data is created, transformed, and moved.
• Deliver source-to-target mappings, entity relationship diagrams, data flow diagrams, and other technical documentation to facilitate the teams’ understanding of current and future state.
• Work directly with D&A architects and developers to ensure business impact as well as technical designs are understood and technically executed correctly.
• Execute QA testing and conduct user acceptance testing to ensure requirements were met by development efforts, clearly documenting and communicating issues to developers.
• Perform root cause analysis for bugs and clearly communicate findings to the development team for resolution.
• Build subject matter expertise on National Vision’s data warehouse, data integration, reporting, KPIs, and other data solutions.
• Support ad-hoc data and process analysis to help answer urgent business questions and identify future enhancements.

Qualifications

Work Experience

• 4-6 years Related Experience (required)

Education

• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience. Business, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field (Required)

Additional Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in complex projects (Required)
• Proficiency in SQL and understanding of relational databases (Required)
• Good understanding of data and advanced analytics concepts (such as medallion architecture, predictive models, etc.) (Required)
• Ability to work independently as well as collaborate with business and technical teams (Required)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (Required)
• Experience writing technical documentation, especially for data-related projects (Required).

Additional Information

Taking Care of our People!

We understand the importance of financial health and security, and because of that, we provide competitive compensation to all associates. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and dental insurance, 401k retirement savings with company match, flex spending account, paid personal time off, paid company holidays, parental leave, employee eyewear discount, and much, much more. At National Vision, we strive to deliver opportunities for professional growth and long-term career fulfillment. We provide training programs and access to educational courses and pride ourselves on the ever-increasing amount of promotions from within.

We are an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.