Data Business Analyst – GCP / Hadoop

About the Position

Capco Poland, a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation across the financial services industry, is seeking a Data Business Analyst to support a large-scale banking data initiative in Cracow, Poland. This role combines business, data, and technology expertise to deliver meaningful transformation across financial services.

Responsibilities

• Gathering and Analyzing Requirements: Translate business and data requirements into clear technical requirements.
• Acting as a Liaison: Serve as a link between business stakeholders, data teams, architects, and Data Engineers throughout the data delivery lifecycle.
• Data Source Identification: Identify relevant data sources across HDP/Hadoop environments and determine their delivery to the analytical layer in Google Cloud Platform.
• Data Analysis and Validation: Analyze and validate data using SQL, BigQuery, Hive, and Spark SQL.
• Preparing Asset Designs: Create and maintain Asset Designs, data mappings, and detailed solution logic.
• Creating Implementation Requirements: Develop implementation-ready requirements and tickets for Data Engineering, covering data sources, scope, transformations, mappings, and business rules.
• Collaboration with Data Engineers: Work closely with Data Engineers during implementation to clarify requirements, explain solution logic, and validate delivered solutions.
• Data Quality and Completeness: Verify data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and alignment with agreed requirements. Identify and analyze Data Quality and Data Completeness issues and coordinate activities to resolve them.
• Data Governance: Deliver activities related to Data Governance, including data mapping, standards validation, and data access requirements.
• Scripting and Code Maintenance: Create and modify scripts or code maintained in GitHub to support analysis, data validation, and project delivery.

Requirements

• Experience delivering data solutions within banking or financial services.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL and complex data analysis.
• Practical experience with Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery.
• Experience analyzing data in Hadoop/HDP environments, ideally using Hive and/or Spark SQL.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical data requirements.
• Good understanding of data mappings, transformation logic, and data flows.
• Experience preparing detailed specifications, solution designs, or implementation requirements for Data Engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in the areas of Data Quality and Data Completeness.
• Ability to investigate data issues, identify root causes, and define appropriate solutions.
• Experience collaborating with a range of stakeholders, including business teams, Data Engineers, architects, Data Owners, and asset owners.
• Familiarity with GitHub and the ability to create or modify scripts supporting data analysis and validation.

Bonus Points

• Understanding of Data Governance principles and data ownership models.
• Experience with data access management and permission-related processes.
• Understanding of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud-based analytical platforms.
• Experience supporting complex data transformation or data migration initiatives.

We Offer

A flexible collaboration model based on a B2B contract, with the opportunity to work on diverse projects.

About the Company

Capco Poland is a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation across the financial services industry. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry. We are experts in banking and payments, capital markets, wealth, and asset management, focused on maintaining our nimble, agile, and entrepreneurial culture, and committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there.