Senior Techno-Functional Business Analyst (m/f/d)

Senior Techno-Functional Business Analyst (m/f/d)

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Senior Techno-Functional Business Analyst (m/f/d)

• Home-Office
• Market leader
• International impact

Advantest – We enable tomorrowʻs technology.

• Market leader
• Hightech-High-tech semiconductors
• International impact

IoT, 5G and Artificial Intelligence. Unthinkable without us. More than half of all the microchips produced worldwide first pass through our hands. As the global market leader of automated test systems in the semiconductor industry we help the world to realize the digital transformation, enable our customers to shape the future and offer you the exciting jobs intended for pioneers.

Your Responsibilities

As part of our Digital Transformation we are seeking a highly skilled senior Techno-Functional Business Analyst (TF BA) with strong expertise in process & data mapping, requirement & data analysis as well as data quality. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams by understanding business needs and how they fit into the business strategy, analyzing source systems, identifying data integration needs, and supporting the design of scalable solutions and business models.

The role focuses on translating business needs into clear, detailed technical requirements while ensuring solutions are scalable, feasible, and aligned with business objectives. The TF BA collaborates closely with the business, developers, architects, and QA teams throughout the solution lifecycle.

This role requires a blend of business acumen, technical data expertise, and analytical problem-solving skills to ensure high-quality data solutions that support enterprise analytics and decision-making.

This senior role requires strong stakeholder management skills and solid process & data skills. The role will own the domain “product & part” and therefore will work on the interface between product development lifecycle and all downstream processes and where they need part data (downstream processes such as Sales, Supply Chain, Service Assurance). Hence solid experience with modelling process and data streams for product and part processes is a must have for any candidate applying.

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

• Consult closely with business stakeholders to understand business problems, pain points and requirements.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Act as a trusted advisor by proposing solution options and trade-offs

Requirements & Documentation

• Manage business requirements gathering and oversee creation and maintenance of all required documentation
• Ensure requirements are clear, complete, testable, and traceable
• Develop data and KPI definitions and implement these into our global data catalog

Data Analysis & Data Mapping

• Perform data profiling, data quality assessment, and exploratory data analysis on source systems.
• Map source-to-target data flows and define transformation logic for data pipelines, data warehouses, and analytics platforms.
• Design Data models, Entity-Relationship diagrams, and document data definitions.
• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and quality issues and propose remediation strategies.

Technical Collaboration

• Work with data architects, data engineers, BI developers, and solution architects to ensure accurate implementation of data requirements.
• Support data mapping discussions and participate in design reviews to ensure alignment with architecture standards

Delivery & Quality Support

• Propose and validate solutions against business requirements during testing phases
• Support UAT (User Acceptance Testing) by defining scenarios and validating outcomes
• Identify risks, dependencies, and impacts related to proposed changes
• Support business users on data ownership and data quality processes and drive a data driven culture and mentality
• Contribute to process improvements in requirement management and delivery practices
• Maintain documentation standards and best practices
• Support change management and impact analysis activities

Your Qualifications

Required Experience

• 5–8 years of experience as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst, or similar role
• Experience working as part of project team in global transformation projects, experience with part data model and product lifecycle
• Solid experience with business, process and data analysis; technical expertise regarding data models
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including developers, QA, and product owners
• Experience in understanding how data supports solid processes and hence adds business value is a must have

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in: Computer Science/ Economics/ Engineering/ Business Administration

Functional & Analytical Skills

• Excellent knowledge on product lifecycle processes and integration into downstream processes
• Excellent knowledge on product, part and BOM data models
• Experience working on global transformation projects
• Strong requirement gathering and documentation skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language
• Strong attention to detail and structured thinking

Technical Skills

• Exposure to databases and data flows
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure or similar
• Strong knowledge of and experience with reporting packages (Power BI etc), Databases (SQL etc), Azure.

Good communication and collaboration skills in a global environment

Good knowledge of English (written and spoken) is a must, German and Japanese is a plus.

Ability to engage confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Strong facilitation and presentation skills

Soft Skills & Attributes

• Proactive and self-driven mindset
• Strong ownership and accountability
• Ability to manage ambiguity and changing priorities
• Customer-focused and solution-oriented approach

Our offer

• Flexibility
• Development
• Fitness
• Security

Flexibility: Flexible and trust-based working hours, 30 vacation days + option for additional vacation days, mobile working, individual part-time models and programs for extended periods of absence

Benefits: Attractive salary, share in Advantest´s success through our exceptionally appealing bonus program as well as numerous subsidies, discounts and offerings (e.g. bike leasing)

Development: Structured onboarding programs and mentoring, development discussions, technical and soft skill trainings, language courses and knowledge sessions

Fitness: Ergonomic working environment, sports and fitness options and events (e.g. Global Challenge) as well as health days

Security: Attractive company pension scheme, comprehensive insurance coverage and support in emergency situations

Insights into our work environment

Would you like to know more about jobs at Advantest and about our unique team spirit? Our employees offer you their personal insights into our working environment.Would you like to take a closer look how our working environment in Boeblingen or Amerang looks like? Here you can take a short virtual 360° tour of our company.

Insights into our work environment

Would you like to know more about jobs at Advantest and about our unique team spirit? Our employees offer you their personal insights into our working environment.Would you like to take a closer look how our working environment in Boeblingen or Amerang looks like? Here you can take a short virtual 360° tour of our company.

Contact

If you have any questions, Ann-Kathrin Rupp will be happy to answer them.