Senior Technical Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Facilitate strategic discussions with business and engineering teams to tackle reporting challenges, improve business processes, and identify high-impact initiatives.

• Oversee, mentor, and develop junior business analysts, promoting their growth and ensuring team alignment with organizational objectives.

• Lead project planning, scheduling, and monitoring to guarantee that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard of quality.

• Act as the primary point of contact between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment, clarity, and effective communication.

• Assess intricate business and reporting challenges and convert them into actionable technical solutions, including requirements definition, data modeling, dbt development, SQL analysis, and reporting design.

• Advocate for process enhancements, organizational alignment, and strategic decision-making.

• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Finance teams to design, develop, test, and sustain dbt models that meet operational, financial, and bank reporting needs.

• Compose, optimize, validate, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries utilized for regulatory, bank partner, executive, and operational reporting.

• Convert business and regulatory reporting requirements into scalable data models, metrics definitions, and reporting datasets while ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and auditability.

• Conduct data analysis, reconciliation, and validation tasks to confirm that reporting outputs fulfill business, compliance, and banking partner specifications.

• Work alongside engineering teams to set data quality standards, testing frameworks, and documentation for reporting and analytics solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience as a business analyst, including at least 2 years in a senior or leadership role, ideally within the fintech or financial services sector.

• Proven experience in managing and mentoring teams, with the capability to guide others and build high-performing groups.

• Comprehensive knowledge of financial products, services, and the regulatory environment impacting the fintech industry.

• Proficiency in data analytics, employing tools to assess financial data, market trends, and customer behavior, and translating findings into actionable strategies.

• Strong practical experience in writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for reporting, analytics, and data validation in large-scale data environments.

• Experience in developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting dbt (Data Build Tool) models, covering data transformations, testing, documentation, and lineage management.

• Established ability to convert business, financial, and regulatory reporting requirements into technical specifications, data models, and reporting solutions.

• Familiarity with data warehouses and modern analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar).

• Understanding of banking, lending, fintech, or regulatory reporting processes, including data reconciliation, audit controls, and reporting accuracy standards.

• Experience in performing root-cause analysis and addressing data quality issues across reporting and analytics workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Flexible, remote work options.

• Engaging, fast-paced work environment.

• Dynamic start-up culture.

• Opportunity to make an immediate impact in a growth-stage company.

• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city.

• Equal opportunity employer.