Job Description

Job Brief:

At Exaze, we constantly seek exciting talent to join an organization that believes in nurturing dreamers, innovators, and doers willing to expand their horizons in the software industry. To be successful in this role, the candidate should have excellent communication skills and be able to understand requirements and ask questions to clarify them. The candidate should be able to work independently and as part of a team and be committed to delivering high quality results.

Role -

Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics

Department:

Data Platforms / Analytics

Location:

Mumbai BKC

Reports to:

Head of Data Platforms

Role Purpose

We are seeking a Technical Business Analyst to lead the scoping, documentation, and technical solution design for data, reporting & analytics solutions. The role will involve working with senior leaders from across our business to understand current reporting solutions, pain points, potential efficiencies, opportunities and requirements which will help inform future solutions. As a part of this role, we want the Technical Business Analyst to be instrumental in helping to create solutions that will help drive operational efficiency, improved decision making and help support strategic business / operational objectives.


As a part of this role, we will need the Technical Business Analyst to be "hands-on", in understanding legacy data & analytics solutions (e.g. reports & dashboards) that have been built and how these can be brought in-line and modernised with our current technical standards, technologies and processes. We will need proven ability to help reverse engineer existing solutions, understand data sources, data sets & transformations and ability to interpret a data models. Working together with the business, they will need to document and validate functional and technical requirements, where they will then help to design the future-state solution. Collaborating with technical teams, engineers, BI analysts and stakeholders, they will help to build a plan to deliver updated solutions back to the business. We expect the Analyst to help pull together a holistic view of the current end-to-end solution and a roadmap for modernisation.


The role requires a proactive mindset, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement. The Analyst will work cross-functionally with data engineers, BI developers, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable solutions that drive operational efficiency and support strategic business objectives. We will need experience with Microsoft Data & Analytics technologies including but not limited to Power BI, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL and Databricks. They will need strong communication and ability to interact with senior stakeholders. Our expectation is that the Technical Business Analyst helps stays current with evolving data technologies and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Discovery and Analysis Conduct detailed reviews of the existing technical solutions (e.g. Power BI Reports & Dashboards, SSIS data integrations) and underlying flat-file and SQL DB data sources. Document current-state architecture, data flows, dependencies, and pain points. Identify and validate core business metrics, KPIs, and data definitions. Collaborate with executives and data owners to clarify reporting needs, data gaps, and decision-use cases. Requirements Gathering and Documentation Develop comprehensive business and functional requirement documents (BRDs/FRDs). Capture and translate executive-level needs into technical specifications for the engineering and BI teams. Maintain traceability between business outcomes, KPIs, and data sources. Ensure requirements align with enterprise data governance and security standards. Solution Design and Planning Work closely with data engineers, Power BI developers, and platform architects to design a robust, scalable, and maintainable solution. Develop future-state data model and architectural diagrams using approved Investec patterns (Databricks, Fabric, Power BI). Produce a delivery roadmap, identifying dependencies, sequencing, and resource needs. Ensure alignment with the organisation's data mesh and data governance principles. Stakeholder Management Serve as a bridge between business stakeholders (executives, finance, risk, operations) and technical teams. Communicate progress, risks, and design decisions clearly and confidently. Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and UAT phases. Governance and Quality Define and enforce documentation standards, naming conventions, and metadata capture. Support definition and tracking of data quality rules and validation checks. Ensure compliance with data security, confidentiality, and audit requirements.

Required Skills and Experience

5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Technical BA within financial services or banking. Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modelling, and BI / analytics workflows. Proven experience in Azure Data Platform technologies: Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Lake, SQL. Ability to translate business requirements into data and technical design artifacts. Familiarity with Agile delivery and data governance frameworks. Experience developing or supporting executive-level reporting or dashboards. Strong documentation skills (process flows, data dictionaries, system mapping). Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills - comfortable engaging at C-suite level.

Desirable Skills

Experience working in data mesh architectures. Exposure to data lineage / metadata management tools (e.g., Purview). Understanding of KPIs in financial services (e.g., balance sheet metrics, profitability, risk indicators). Experience in solutioning and planning for Power BI enterprise implementations.

Key Deliverables

Current state documentation (dashboard, data model, sources). Business and functional requirements pack. Target state architecture and design. Technical implementation plan with dependencies and sequencing. * Handover to delivery / engineering teams.