- Company Name
- SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd
- Job Title
- Senior Business Analyst (Data D&A)
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Senior Business Analyst (Data D&A)
**Role Summary**
Lead the translation of business needs into actionable data platform requirements, collaborating with stakeholders, engineers, and data teams to design, validate, and deliver end‑to‑end enterprise data solutions. Drive process improvements, ensure alignment across development cycles, and oversee the transition of the Data Platform into business‑as‑usual operations.
**Expectations**
- Own stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation.
- Convert complex requirements into clear user stories, process flows, and documentation.
- Maintain knowledge bases and wikis to support cross‑team alignment.
- Act as a liaison between technical and business groups, removing blockers and ensuring feasibility.
- Champion quality through Three Amigos, demos, QA, and UAT.
- Identify and implement process and methodological improvements across the Data Platform programme.
- Support data provisioning workflows and the maintenance of a data catalogue.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Conduct stakeholder workshops to define and prioritise business needs.
- Translate business requirements into user stories, process flows, and high‑quality documentation.
- Maintain wikis and knowledge bases for team alignment.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to confirm requirement understanding, feasibility, and readiness for delivery.
- Lead Three Amigos sessions, demos, QA, and UAT activities.
- Proactively unblock issues between technical and business stakeholders.
- Drive process improvements and new working practices for the Data Platform programme.
- Ensure smooth transition of the platform into BAU operations.
- Apply expertise in data provisioning workflows: sourcing, mapping, and validating Market Data and Fundamentals data.
- Support integrations with data providers (ZEMA, Bloomberg, Reuters/Refinitiv) and maintain the data catalogue.
**Required Skills**
- Strong communication and stakeholder influence.
- Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
- Technical literacy in APIs, SQL/database concepts, and modern data platform architecture (governance, validation, real‑time streaming).
- Experience with data visualisation/analytics tools (Tableau, Power BI).
- Familiarity with Market and Fundamentals data sources (ZEMA, Bloomberg, Reuters/Refinitiv).
- Highly organised, prioritisation and multitasking in a fast‑moving, multi‑team environment.
- Collaborative, adaptable, and effective in agile settings.
- Proactive, reliable, and committed to high‑quality delivery.
- Understanding of the commodities trading landscape (advantageous).
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in a numerate or computing‑related field.
- No specific certifications required.