Data Products Senior Business Analyst, Manager

JS Perkins Consulting delivers management and technology consulting services and is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements and data translation for a Defense Health Agency data modernization effort. The role owns requirements discovery, data mappings, documentation standards, data quality validation, backlog prioritization, governance engagement, and user adoption for enterprise data products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements discovery across clinical, operational, financial, and readiness domains, working directly with Government functional owners and data stewards
• Own the quality and consistency of requirements artifacts across the team, including source-to-target mappings, business rules, transformation logic, and acceptance criteria
• Set and enforce standards for data product documentation, data dictionaries, business glossaries, and the metadata required for enterprise catalog registration
• Define data quality frameworks and validation approaches with senior engineers, and confirm that delivered silver and gold data products meet them
• Perform hands-on profiling, validation, and analysis in SQL and modern data platform tooling to resolve requirements questions independently
• Prioritize and sequence the requirements backlog across multiple pipeline and product teams, balancing mission urgency against data readiness
• Represent the delivery team in Government data governance forums, working with Data Domain Owners, Data Domain Stewards, and IT Data Custodians on definitions, access, and authoritative source questions
• Identify data gaps, source system constraints, and governance blockers early, and bring the Government a recommended course of action rather than a problem statement
• Mentor analysts on requirements technique, documentation quality, and hands-on data skills
• Support user adoption of delivered data products, including walkthroughs, training material, and feedback loops with mission users

Requirements:

• • 10 or more years of business analysis, data analysis, or data product experience supporting analytics, reporting, or data integration work
• • 5 or more years translating business or mission requirements into technical data requirements, including source-to-target mappings and documented business rules
• • Expert-level ability to write and debug complex SQL independently, including multi-source joins, aggregations, window functions, and common table expressions
• • Demonstrated experience leading a requirements or analysis workstream, including setting standards and reviewing the work of other analysts
• • Experience defining data quality frameworks, validation criteria, and acceptance testing for delivered data products
• • Working proficiency with modern data platforms such as Databricks, and a solid working understanding of ETL and ELT pipeline design, data modeling, and curated data layer patterns
• • Experience producing and reviewing high-quality written artifacts for Government audiences, including requirements documents, mapping specifications, and data product documentation
• • Experience working in an agile delivery environment and managing a prioritized requirements backlog across multiple teams
• • Strong client-facing communication skills, with the ability to work credibly with senior Government stakeholders and technical delivery teams
• • Ability to lead a workstream, manage competing priorities, and drive work to resolution in a fast-moving environment
• • Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Information Systems, Business, Analytics, Public Health, or a related field
• • U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain and maintain a DoW Secret clearance
• • Must be willing to travel for client business as needed
• • Work is performed in hybrid/remote office environment and requires operating standard office equipment and keyboards
• • Must be able to lift small packages or other items up to 20 lbs and travel short or long distances in a car, airplane, or other vehicle of transportation to client destinations nationally and internationally if needed
• • Active DoW Secret clearance or higher at time of application
• • Master's degree in a related field is strongly preferred
• • Experience with Python (Pandas or PySpark preferred) for data profiling, validation, or transformation work
• • Experience supporting DHA, the Military Health System, Defense Health Program, VA, or other federal healthcare data environments
• • Familiarity with health data standards and domains such as HL7 or FHIR, ICD-10, CPT, or claims and encounter data
• • Experience with Advana, the War Data Platform, Palantir Foundry, or similar DoW data environments
• • Experience supporting federated or data mesh governance models, authoritative data source designation, or enterprise data catalog and marketplace efforts
• • Experience with data governance roles and artifacts such as data stewardship, data cards, model cards, or the DoD Responsible AI Toolkit
• • Experience building or validating dashboards and reports in Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or similar tools
• • Experience handling PHI and PII under HIPAA in a regulated environment