Senior Business Analyst

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Senior IT Business Analyst supporting Finance-driven initiatives for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Involving end-to-end change execution across data platforms for a global company.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 £50,400 - £75,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead BPG Finance Change Delivery
Serve as the senior IT BA for Finance-driven initiatives impacting the SPoT Finance Data Platform
Translate Finance reporting, analytics, and regulatory requirements into structured epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
Perform comprehensive impact assessments across source systems, pipelines, curated datasets, models, dashboards, and downstream consumers
Coordinate change activities including cutovers, migrations, backfills, and post-deployment stabilization
Ensure full traceability from requirements through testing, deployment, and production support
Act as the primary liaison between BPG Finance and IT Data Engineering teams
Facilitate solution design workshops covering source onboarding, schema evolution, transformation logic, dimensional modelling, partitioning, aggregation strategies, and consumption patterns
Define and enforce data contracts, KPI definitions, modelling standards, and data quality controls
Partner with Product Owner and Scrum Master to maintain a prioritized backlog aligned to Finance priorities and platform commitments
Proactively identify and resolve risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers
Define non-functional requirements including data quality thresholds, security and access controls, performance SLAs, reliability, and auditability
Lead testing readiness across unit, integration, reconciliation, data quality validation, performance testing, and UAT of curated datasets and consumption assets
Establish monitoring for data quality, freshness, reconciliation accuracy, and usage trends
Lead root-cause analysis of data issues and implement preventative controls and operational runbooks
Maintain comprehensive documentation including BRDs/FRDs, technical specifications, data dictionaries, KPI definitions, process maps, runbooks, and change logs

Requirements

What you’ll need

A bachelor’s degree in computing science, information systems or a similar discipline and 7+ years relevant job experience is essential
Significant experience supporting Finance-led change initiatives within enterprise data platform
Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into structured, actionable delivery artifacts
Strong SQL skills and solid understanding of dimensional modelling, schema evolution, metadata/lineage, and data quality frameworks
Experience defining and monitoring data quality rules, reconciliation controls, and governance-aligned data assets
Experience leading UAT and managing cross-functional delivery
Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with structured prioritization and attention to detail
Advanced knowledge of Agile methodologies and project management practices
Experience working with cross-functional, global teams
Ability to influence and build consensus across organizational levels
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Up to 25% travel may be required

Benefits

Comp & perks

A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLdimensional modellingschema evolutiondata quality frameworksdata quality rulesreconciliation controlsUATAgile methodologiesproject management practicesdata contracts

Soft Skills

facilitationstakeholder managementcommunicationattention to detailinfluenceconsensus buildingindependent workteam collaborationrisk identificationproblem resolution