F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to optimize and secure every app and API anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats.

Come join a fantastic team and capture essential requirements in our efforts to drive the maturity of these critical disciplines! You will work across the enterprise to enable and support strategic digital transformation initiatives through Data Governance (DG) and Metadata Management (MM) solutions.  You should have knowledge of Data Governance and Metadata Management, a high degree of business acumen, professional maturity, and poise. Good problem solving and critical thinking skills are required.

Join our team and make a significant impact by leveraging your extensive business analysis expertise to drive strategic initiatives, optimize our data governance and metadata management practices, and lead digital transformation efforts. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and technology partners to elicit, analyze, translate, and document requirements and define measurable success criteria.
• Partner with multiple stakeholders across business units and IT teams to define the optimal delivery approach.
• Utilize your strong communication and stakeholder management skills to elicit, analyze, and document comprehensive business requirements for data governance and metadata management.
• Translate desired business functionality into documented application requirements.
• Collaborate with business units and IT (Information Technology) teams on solution strategies related to data governance and metadata management.
• Drive to the heart of business problems to ensure the development of practical solutions, documentation and process improvements that consider all teams, initiatives, and long-term strategy.
• Provide thought leadership on priorities, dependencies, and risks.
• Identify areas of process improvement and assist in driving internal change.
• Facilitate training for new processes.
• Support the development of a metadata management and data governance framework and policies, processes, standards, and roles.
• Collaborate with data stewards and development teams to develop and maintain policies, guidelines, standards, and procedures.
• Assist with the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards, and adoption requirements across the enterprise.
• Improve data capture processes to enhance data quality and decision-making.
• Ensure data ownership, quality, and privacy in collaboration with business units and various stakeholders within the Enterprise.
• Champion organizational behavior changes as it relates to the use of data and realize the vision of data managed as an asset.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities to be successful:

• Knowledge of Data Governance and Metadata Management.
• Understanding of operational processes, data, systems landscape
• Ability to understand desired business functionality and translate into documented application requirements
• Advanced knowledge of business analysis best practices including documentation requirements for large bodies of work
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas
• Ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with program leadership, subject matter experts and key stakeholders.
• Ability and willingness to recognize work that needs to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others.
• Strong analytical skills, business intuition, and organizational ability.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to operate effectively in a cross functional and complex matrixed work environment.
• Adaptable, open to change and able to work in ambiguous situations and respond to new information or unexpected circumstances.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Professional working knowledge with data management in the technology industry.
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills, must be able to drive groups to decisions
• Proven ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively
• Proven ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively, within a team
• Expert written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a business analyst or equivalent.
• Prior experience or exposure to data governance and metadata management
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work independently and collaboratively.