Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NinjaHoldings is a financial services company offering digital banking, lending, underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics products. The Sr. Technical Business Analyst bridges business objectives and technical solutions by leading requirements gathering, process analysis, reporting, data modeling, and cross-functional initiatives. The role also involves mentoring analysts, developing dbt models and SQL reporting solutions, and ensuring data quality, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder adoption.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic conversations with business and engineering teams to address reporting challenges, enhance business processes, and define high-impact initiatives
- Manage, mentor, and guide junior business analysts, fostering their development and aligning team efforts with organizational goals
- Drive project planning, scheduling, and monitoring to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with high quality
- Serve as the primary liaison between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment, clarity, and consistent communication
- Analyze complex business and reporting challenges and translate them into actionable technical solutions, including requirements definition, data modeling, dbt development, SQL analysis, and reporting design
- Champion process improvements, organizational alignment, and strategic decision-making
- Partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Finance teams to design, develop, test, and maintain dbt models that support operational, financial, and bank reporting requirements
- Write, optimize, validate, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries used for regulatory, bank partner, executive, and operational reporting
- Translate business and regulatory reporting requirements into scalable data models, metrics definitions, and reporting datasets while ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and auditability
- Perform data analysis, reconciliation, and validation activities to ensure reporting outputs meet business, compliance, and banking partner requirements
- Collaborate with engineering teams to establish data quality standards, testing frameworks, and documentation for reporting and analytics solutions
Skills
- 6+ years of professional experience as a business analyst, with at least 2 years in a senior or leadership role, preferably in the fintech or financial services industry
- Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring teams, with the ability to guide others and build high-performing teams
- Deep understanding of financial products, services, and the regulatory landscape affecting the fintech industry
- Expertise in data analytics, using tools to analyze financial data, market trends, and customer behavior, and translating findings into actionable strategies
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to influence stakeholders and foster collaboration across diverse teams
- Strong hands-on experience writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for reporting, analytics, and data validation in large-scale data environments
- Experience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting dbt (Data Build Tool) models, including data transformations, testing, documentation, and lineage management
- Proven ability to translate business, financial, and regulatory reporting requirements into technical specifications, data models, and reporting solutions
- Experience working with data warehouses and modern analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar)
- Familiarity with banking, lending, fintech, or regulatory reporting processes, including data reconciliation, audit controls, and reporting accuracy requirements
- Experience performing root-cause analysis and resolving data quality issues across reporting and analytics workflows
Benefits
- Flexible, remote work
- Fun, fast-paced work environment
- Dynamic start-up culture
- Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
- Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
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