Business Analyst III Security Clearance

Position: Business Analyst III with Security Clearance
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Business Analyst III CAYUSE COMPANY:
Cayuse Civil Services, LLC LOCATION Austin, TX SALARY: $108,160-$ EMPLOYEE TYPE:
Full-Time Salary Exempt TRAVEL No RELOCATION No Employment in this role is conditional upon successful execution of the contract by the client. The Work The Business Analyst III serves as a senior-level data quality expert and critical liaison between technical IT teams and non‑technical program or business staff working with complex technical data sources across multiple departments and agencies. This role enables staff to effectively determine data profiles and data quality measures that support analytical reporting, regulatory and management reporting, and strategic decision‑making.

This position aligns with Cayuse's core values of Innovation, Excellence, Collaboration, Adaptability, and Integrity by fostering technical solutions that meet customer needs, promoting teamwork, and prioritizing quality in deliverables. Responsibilities
* Work with program areas, project sponsors, and system subject matter experts (SMEs) to understand data domains and common data quality issues.
* Elicit, document, and refine business and data requirements related to data quality, data profiling, and analytics.
* Explain technical findings, data quality issues, and data limitations in clear, simple, non‑technical language to end‑users, stakeholders, and leadership.
* Extract, integrate, and analyze sample data from multiple complex internal and external sources to support analytics and data quality assessment needs.
* Perform detailed data profiling to identify patterns, anomalies, data quality issues, and opportunities for improvement across multiple data domains.
* Collaborate with end‑users, performance analysts, and IT leadership to design and validate visualizations that communicate data quality profiles and trends for emerging analytics and reporting needs.
* Provide subject matter expertise on validating AI‑generated outputs, with particular focus on identifying and mitigating hallucinations and ensuring accuracy and reliability of results.
* Ensure all data outputs, profiles, and visualizations comply with applicable reporting standards, data governance policies, and compliance or regulatory requirements.
* Champion data quality and data literacy across the organization by developing and conducting training sessions, workshops, and knowledge‑sharing forums for non‑technical staff.
* Create clear, comprehensive documentation, glossaries, and tutorials on using data glossary and metadata tools for data understanding and synthesis.
* Promote a data‑driven culture by enabling and empowering staff to effectively utilize data profiling tools, metadata tools, and AI to understand and improve data quality.
* Work closely with data engineering, IT, and program/business teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve data‑related issues, including inconsistencies, data gaps, and quality defects.
* Provide expert guidance to program staff and leadership on interpreting data trends, data quality metrics, and their impact on analytics, reporting, and operations.
* Partner with data governance, compliance, and architecture teams to align data profiling findings with broader data governance and data quality initiatives.
* Stay current on new AI, analytics, and data quality tools, methodologies, and techniques to continuously enhance data analytics, data quality, and reporting capabilities.
* Develop and refine effective AI prompts and query strategies to accurately retrieve and synthesize data from complex data domains for profiling and analysis.
* Guide non‑technical users in crafting precise prompts to obtain the data and insights they need, ensuring fidelity, reproducibility, and accuracy.
* Develop and maintain a library of standardized prompts and query templates that support common data profiling, data quality, and reporting use cases. Other duties as assigned . Qualifications Here's What You Need The qualifications and skills listed below are intended to provide a general overview of the requirements for this position. However, due to the anticipated nature of the contract…