Principal - Technical Business Analyst, Data Products & Platforms at Simple Machines | AU | Rezi

Principal - Technical Business Analyst, Data Products & Platforms at Simple Machines

Principal - Technical Business Analyst, Data Products & Platforms

Simple Machines · AU

2 weeks ago

Principal - Technical Business Analyst, Data Products & Platforms

Simple Machines · AU

17 days ago
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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™.