Senior Business Systems Analyst, Data
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination.
Job Description
Role overview
As a core member of the Data team, the Senior Business Systems Analyst will play a pivotal role in influencing our data and analytics systems. The Senior Business Systems Analyst role serves as the crucial link between our business objectives and technical capabilities of our systems. With a strong focus on architectural design, requirement design & analysis, and quality assurance, the ideal candidate will work collaboratively with various cross functional stakeholders to shape the future of our business processes and ensure they are efficiently supported by our systems.
What you’ll do
- Requirements Design: Engage with stakeholders to collect and document business requirements, translating them into specifications in user stories with clear acceptance criteria. Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to build out user guides and training materials for end-users.
- Documentation: Create essential technical and business documentation, including application, data flow, sequence diagrams, entity relationship, and integration diagrams. Present system designs to both internal and external stakeholders for approval.
- System Analysis: Demonstrate a strong understanding of data and analytics processes, identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
- Implementation: Collaborate with engineers as a member of the scrum team to implement technical solutions to meet business requirements and compliance regulations.
- User Acceptance Testing: Collaborate with business stakeholders to document user acceptance testing scenarios and obtain sign-off prior to deployment. Assist with testing coordination and documenting defects.
- Subject Matter Expert: Become an expert on our modern data stack. Stay knowledgeable about their feature sets and new releases to proactively identify optimization opportunities and create stakeholder value.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date on industry trends and best practices to inform system decisions
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of business analyst experience.
- Self-starter with proactive qualities and an analytical mindset
- Ability to navigate an ambiguous environment and take ownership of assignments and business outcomes.
- Problem Solver: With a keen analytical mindset, you're adept at identifying challenges and crafting effective solutions.
- Independent and capable of taking ownership and driving assignments, leading initiatives.
- Active listener with effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable asking questions to deeply understand business processes and technical implementation details.
- Collaborative team player, able to work across departments to translate requirements into system capabilities.
- Experienced with data and analytics ecosystems, data ingestion patterns and anti-patterns, business intelligence best practices.
- Experience with Snowflake, DBT and Looker preferred.
- Business outcome oriented.
Role overview
As a core member of the Data team, the Senior Business Systems Analyst will play a pivotal role in influencing our data and analytics systems. The Senior Business Systems Analyst role serves as the crucial link between our business objectives and technical capabilities of our systems. With a strong focus on architectural design, requirement design & analysis, and quality assurance, the ideal candidate will work collaboratively with various cross functional stakeholders to shape the future of our business processes and ensure they are efficiently supported by our systems.
What you’ll do
- Requirements Design: Engage with stakeholders to collect and document business requirements, translating them into specifications in user stories with clear acceptance criteria. Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to build out user guides and training materials for end-users.
- Documentation: Create essential technical and business documentation, including application, data flow, sequence diagrams, entity relationship, and integration diagrams. Present system designs to both internal and external stakeholders for approval.
- System Analysis: Demonstrate a strong understanding of data and analytics processes, identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
- Implementation: Collaborate with engineers as a member of the scrum team to implement technical solutions to meet business requirements and compliance regulations.
- User Acceptance Testing: Collaborate with business stakeholders to document user acceptance testing scenarios and obtain sign-off prior to deployment. Assist with testing coordination and documenting defects.
- Subject Matter Expert: Become an expert on our modern data stack. Stay knowledgeable about their feature sets and new releases to proactively identify optimization opportunities and create stakeholder value.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date on industry trends and best practices to inform system decisions
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of business analyst experience.
- Self-starter with proactive qualities and an analytical mindset
- Ability to navigate an ambiguous environment and take ownership of assignments and business outcomes.
- Problem Solver: With a keen analytical mindset, you're adept at identifying challenges and crafting effective solutions.
- Independent and capable of taking ownership and driving assignments, leading initiatives.
- Active listener with effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable asking questions to deeply understand business processes and technical implementation details.
- Collaborative team player, able to work across departments to translate requirements into system capabilities.
- Experienced with data and analytics ecosystems, data ingestion patterns and anti-patterns, business intelligence best practices.
- Experience with Snowflake, DBT and Looker preferred.
- Business outcome oriented.
