📊 Senior Functional Analyst – Data & BI 🚀 - Freelance

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As a Functional Analyst with a focus on data modeling, you play a key role in translating business needs into robust data models 🧠. You act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the data engineering team 🤝, ensuring that data products are logically structured, scalable, and future-proof 🔮.

🎯 Your Responsibilities

• 🔍 Translate business requirements into clear features, user stories, and tasks, enabling efficient implementation by Data Engineers and BI developers

• 🏗️ Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models (dimensional models, factless facts, SCDs, etc.)

• 💡 Support users with questions related to self-service data models

• 📋 Independently manage the backlog, ensuring high-quality requirements and alignment with stakeholders

• 📚 Produce technical documentation (source-to-target mappings, transformation logic) and business documentation (user guides, datasets)

• ✅ Contribute to data quality, metadata management, and data governance

• 🔗 Document and monitor data lineage, business rules, and definitions across multiple data sources

👤 Your Profile

• 🎓 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent experience

• ⏳ At least 5 years of experience as a Functional Analyst or Data Analyst

• 🧠 Strong expertise in data modeling (Kimball, Inmon, etc.)

• 🛠️ Solid knowledge of SQL, relational databases, and DWH concepts

• 🔄 Experience with Agile methodologies, backlog management, and Azure DevOps

• 🧩 Ability to analyze complex processes, document them, and translate them into structured data models

• 💬 Excellent communication skills with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders

🌟 Nice to Have

• 📊 Knowledge of BI tools and ELT processes (Tableau is a plus)

• ⚙️ Experience with DBT and self-service BI (semantic layer)

• 🌍 Comfortable in dynamic, cross-functional environments

🚀 Why Join?

• 🌟 Work on impactful data projects with real business value

• 🤝 Be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team

• 📈 Grow your expertise in modern data ecosystems & BI