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About the Role We are seeking a Lead Business Data and Reporting Analyst to join our team in Washington, DC. This role involves leading requirements management, reporting strategy, KPI definition, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement for enterprise reporting and analytics initiatives. Key Responsibilities • Lead discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and current-state/future-state analysis. • Gather, analyze, prioritize, and document business, data, reporting, and nonfunctional requirements. • Define KPIs, scorecards, business metrics, semantic-model requirements, and reporting standards. • Create epics, user stories, process models, data mappings, business rules, and acceptance criteria. • Lead data validation, reconciliation, discrepancy investigation, and reporting-quality activities. • Partner with architects, data engineers, and BI developers to shape implementable solutions. • Lead UAT planning, execution, defect resolution, traceability, and business sign-off. • Support backlog refinement, release planning, reporting governance, and mentoring of analysts. Requirements • 15+ years of experience in Business Analysis, including 5+ years supporting or leading reporting and analytics programs. • Strong skills in SQL, Power BI, Data Modelling, Data Validation, Databricks, DBT, and Dashboard creation. • Experience with Microsoft Fabric, dimensional modeling, KPI definition, data reconciliation, and UAT. • Proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodologies and stakeholder management.