Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data Integration (Data Connect) (FTE / Onsite Interview)

Req ID:   391087   NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now. We are currently seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst - Data Integration (Data Connect) (FTE / Onsite Interview) to join our team in Charlotte , North Carolina (US-NC) , United States (US) . Job Duties and Responsibilities: • Lead discovery and requirements sessions with application teams, Product Owners, business stakeholders, platform engineering, production support, and Data Connect product teams to understand data integration needs. • Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements for application onboarding, data feeds, data flows, access, scheduling, notifications, and platform capabilities. • Create and maintain business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process flows, and supporting analysis. • Translate business needs into clear and actionable backlog items with defined scope, dependencies, assumptions, business rules, and validation criteria. • Facilitate requirement walkthroughs, backlog refinement sessions, prioritization discussions, solution alignment meetings, and stakeholder working sessions. • Coordinate application onboarding to the Data Connect platform from initial intake through requirements, implementation, testing, release readiness, and operational handoff. • Guide application teams in understanding platform standards, supported integration patterns, controls, environment requirements, and implementation expectations. • Partner with architects, engineers, developers, QA, platform specialists, and production support teams to clarify requirements and resolve functional and technical questions. • Manage feature, enhancement, and application onboarding intake in partnership with application leads and Data Connect stakeholders. • Maintain JIRA backlog items to ensure requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and supporting information are complete and ready for estimation, prioritization, development, testing, and release. • Support release planning by evaluating prioritized backlog items, production issues, enterprise mandates, strategic initiatives, business commitments, funding, dependencies, and downstream impacts. • Track milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, testing status, change readiness, implementation activities, and follow-up actions. • Coordinate system integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, business validation, and stakeholder sign-off activities. • Partner with engineering and production support teams to investigate and triage data-flow failures, access issues, datasource problems, scheduling behavior, performance concerns, and production incidents. • Collect supporting evidence, document business impact, track ownership, and communicate root-cause findings, remediation plans, status, and closure. • Support operational readiness reviews, deployment planning, release instructions, implementation communications, and post-production validation. • Prepare concise project and release status updates, decision materials, issue summaries, and stakeholder communications for delivery teams and leadership. • Maintain onboarding guides, user documentation, FAQs, process documentation, and platform communication materials. • Identify opportunities to improve requirements intake, application onboarding, documentation, platform adoption, delivery transparency, and stakeholder experience. • Serve as the primary functional liaison between business stakeholders, consuming applications, Data Connect product teams, technology teams, and production support. Basic Qualifications: • Minimum 7+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Functional Analysis, Systems Analysis, Product Analysis, Data Management, or Technology Delivery. • Minimum 5+ years of experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business and functional requirements. • Minimum 5+ years of experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, process flows, use cases, and business requirements. • Minimum 4+ years of experience working in Agile delivery environments with backlog management, refinement, prioritization, and SDLC practices. • Minimum 3+ years of experience using JIRA, Confluence, or similar requirements and delivery-management tools. • Minimum 3+ years of experience coordinating application onboarding, system integration, implementation, or enterprise technology delivery. • Minimum 3+ years of experience coordinating SIT, UAT, defect management, business validation, release readiness, and production implementation activities. • Working knowledge of enterprise data integration, data movement, data warehousing, relational databases, and data validation concepts . • Strong understanding of data integration flows, interfaces, feeds, scheduling, dependencies, data quality, and operational controls . • Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders and translating complex technology and data concepts into business-friendly language. • Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into clear backlog items, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and actionable delivery tasks. • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, identify dependencies, surface risks, facilitate decisions, and drive issues through resolution. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills. • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business users, Product Owners, and senior stakeholders. • Ability to independently manage requirements and functional-analysis activities from intake through implementa