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About the Role
We are seeking a senior, technically credible analyst-advocate for data platform and data product engagements. This role acts as the customer's proxy within delivery, requiring a deep understanding of data movement, structure, sourcing, and business meaning. The ideal candidate can read data models and source-to-target mappings, and perform data verification. SQL fluency is essential for exploring, profiling, and validating data. You will deeply understand client problems, form and defend a clear point of view, shape solutions with the tech lead, and translate these into requirements and documentation. The role also involves a data product lens, focusing on outcomes, prioritization, and value, and spans data platform, data product, and governance initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Shape the solution alongside the tech lead
- Turn solutions into requirements and documentation
- Step beyond requirements into a data product lens
- Think in outcomes, prioritization, and value
- Flex across data platform, data product, and governance initiatives
- Elicitation, workshops, acceptance criteria, backlog, RAID
- Written and communication capabilities: Strong, structured written craft: status reports, proposals, specs
- Clear executive communication; produces high-quality material independently
Requirements
- A data-focused technical BA, engagement analyst or consultant, or an engineer / analyst who moved into the analyst seat, or wants to
- Deep data understanding: how data moves, is structured, sourced, and what it means in business terms
- SQL-fluent (must-have): explores, profiles and validates data independently
- Reads and reasons about data models and source-to-target mappings
- Knows a modern cloud data stack and ETL / ELT
- Strong requirements craft: elicitation, workshops, acceptance criteria, backlog, RAID
- Not a software, process or ERP BA; user-story-only BAs without SQL are not a fit
Skills
- Data fluency: how data moves, is structured, sourced, and what it means in business terms
- Requirements elicitation, analysis and prioritisation
- Customer advocacy and stakeholder proxy
- Critical thinking, problem solving and logical reasoning
- Translation between business intent and technical delivery
- Workshop facilitation, acceptance criteria, validation and UAT
- SQL (must-have, fluent: explore, profile, validate)
- Data modelling and source-to-target mapping
- Modern stack: Databricks / Snowflake / BigQuery, dbt, Azure / AWS / GCP
- Pipelines and ETL / ELT; Jira / Confluence
Location
- Sydney
- New Zealand
- London
- Poland
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Consulting role
- Global
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Simple Machines is a global, independent technology consultancy operating across Sydney, New Zealand, London, Poland and San Francisco.
- We design and build modern data platforms, intelligent systems, and bespoke software at the intersection of Data Engineering, Software Engineering and AI.
- We help enterprises, scale-ups, and government turn complex, high-value data into products, platforms, and decisions that drive real impact.
- We don't do generic. We build things that matter - We engineer data to life™.