Senior Business Analyst with MDM & Data Modeling expertise

About the Position

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join a data management project within a leading pharmaceutical company. The role will focus on Master Data Management (MDM), data modeling, and data governance, acting as a business counterpart to MDM and data platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior business counterpart for MDM, data platform, and Foundry teams, owning the clarification and translation of business needs into actionable data requirements.
• Lead requirements discovery and analysis related to Master Data Management, including master data domains, attributes, relationships, business rules, hierarchies, and ownership.
• Work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to define how master data should be structured, governed, and represented across downstream systems and data platforms.
• Support the definition and refinement of conceptual and logical data models, ensuring that business concepts and relationships are accurately represented.
• Facilitate discussions between business and technical stakeholders, proactively resolving ambiguities, inconsistencies, and gaps in data requirements.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of enterprise ontologies, including the definition of business entities, relationships, terminology, and semantic models.
• Support data governance activities, including data definitions, ownership, quality rules, standards, and consistency across systems.
• Analyze existing data structures and processes and recommend improvements to support scalable and consistent enterprise data management.
• Maintain clear documentation covering business requirements, data definitions, models, business rules, decisions, and dependencies.
• Validate proposed data models and delivered solutions with business stakeholders to ensure alignment with business processes and intended use.
• Collaborate closely with distributed stakeholders and teams, including colleagues based in the US.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Data Business Analyst, or similar role within complex enterprise environments, with significant exposure to data-related initiatives.
• Strong practical understanding of Master Data Management principles, including master data domains, golden records, hierarchies, relationships, matching, data ownership, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Experience translating complex business concepts into structured data requirements and data models.
• Good understanding of data modeling principles, including entities, attributes, relationships, reference data, and conceptual/logical data models.
• Experience working closely with MDM, data engineering, data architecture, or enterprise data platform teams.
• Ability to operate as an independent and senior business counterpart to technical teams rather than relying on engineering teams to drive requirements definition.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills, with the ability to work with both business and technical stakeholders and challenge assumptions when necessary.
• Experience with data governance, data quality, business glossaries, metadata, or data ownership frameworks.
• Familiarity with ontology or semantic data modeling concepts is highly desirable.
• Experience with Reltio or another MDM platform is a strong advantage, but specific Reltio expertise is not required.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry or similar enterprise data platforms is a plus.
• Pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences domain experience is highly desirable.
• Basic understanding of SQL and data querying concepts is beneficial, but hands-on development or data engineering experience is not required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a high level of ownership and the ability to independently structure ambiguous business problems.
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed international environment.
• English: Upper-Intermediate or higher.

We Offer

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

not applicable for freelancers