Lead Business Analyst – Market Data Transformation & Zema Enterprise Implementation

Lead Business Analyst – Market Data Transformation & Zema Enterprise Implementation

Location: Houston, Texas (On-site)

Role Overview

This organization is seeking a senior business analyst to drive the functional delivery of a enterprise-level market data transformation initiative. The successful candidate will spearhead the definition of business and data requirements, curve management and migration processes, reporting modernization, and business adoption. Acting as a critical liaison, this professional will coordinate efforts across trading, risk, analytics, implementation vendors, architecture, and data engineering teams to ensure a seamless system implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder workshops and define comprehensive requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for data platforms and report deliverables.

• Define curve logic, validation, publication schedules, history, fundamentals, and metadata aligned to enterprise data delivery.

• Define source-to-target mappings, validation, parallel-run, reconciliation, and sign-off controls for migration activities.

• Inventory and rationalize legacy-dependent spreadsheets, models, and reports, establishing functional designs for transition to modern reporting and automated solutions.

• Partner with implementation teams to assess platform capabilities, resolve functional gaps, guide the roadmap, and support system cutover.

• Define future-state workflows, ownership, governance, and support models while leading user acceptance testing and training.

• Establish ownership, data quality monitoring, exception handling, lineage, and audit controls.

• Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field of study.

• Experience: Ten or more years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Consultant, including functional leadership on large-scale transformation programs and facilitation with commercial stakeholders and third-party SaaS implementation teams.

• Technical

Skills

• Deep commodity trading market data expertise, including pricing, curve construction, fundamentals, and risk workflows. Proven experience with data migration, source-to-target mapping, lineage, data quality, and governance frameworks. Experience defining requirements for Snowflake, Power BI, and governed self-service reporting platforms. Advanced Excel skills, including working knowledge of VBA and macros, with experience remediating end-user computing tools.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with Zema Enterprise implementations and Morningstar Marketplace migrations.

• Industry experience in energy, LNG, gas, power, or commodity trading environments.

• Background in market data platform modernization and consulting on large-scale transformation programs.

• Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

• Everforth Apex

Benefits

• Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan, a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our Welcome Packet as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

• Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.