Data & Business Analyst (Alibaba Cloud Stack)

Location: Dubai, UAE

Department: OneBullEx

OneBullEx is looking for a highly technical, AI-forward Business Analyst to take end-to-end ownership of bridging business operations and data engineering. In this role, you will gather, document, and translate business requirements into technical specifications for the Data Engineering team — leveraging modern AI-assisted development, reusable templates, and automated workflows to rapidly build complete, high-quality dashboards and custom reports in Grafana and QuickBI.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements & Technical Documentation

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather, analyse, validate, and document business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Translate complex business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and functional specifications for the Data Engineering team.
• Produce and maintain key project documentation, including BRDs, FRDs, use cases, process maps, sequence diagrams, scope documents, and UAT plans.
• Support project planning by tracking milestones, maintaining issue logs, monitoring progress, and ensuring documentation remains strictly up to date.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with Product Managers, Data Engineers, UX/UI Designers, and QA teams throughout the product lifecycle to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder meetings, and requirements-gathering sessions to align business objectives with backend technical solutions.
• Collaborate with QA teams during testing cycles and actively support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure solutions meet exact business requirements.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating them proactively to support on-time project delivery.

Process Optimisation & Innovation

• Analyse existing business processes to identify concrete opportunities for automation, optimisation, and continuous operational improvement.
• Evaluate operational, financial, and technology-related risks, providing actionable recommendations to mitigate potential issues.
• Support the creation of wireframes, prototypes, process diagrams, and workflow documentation to clearly communicate business logic.
• Monitor product performance post-implementation, gather user feedback, and recommend enhancements to improve customer experience and internal adoption.

Required Qualifications

• Fluent bilingual in English and Chinese, spoken and written, for seamless collaboration with regional stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on experience with Alibaba Cloud, Grafana, QuickBI, and building custom business reports.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-enabled tools and code-driven workflows to rapidly generate dashboards and scale reporting templates.
• Deep understanding of APIs, data warehouse terms (DWD, DWS, ADS, ODS), data integration concepts, and BPM/Workflow Solutions.
• Proven track record producing BRDs, FRDs, use cases, process maps, sequence diagrams, scope documents, and UAT plans.

Preferred

• Experience facilitating workshops and requirements-gathering sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Background evaluating operational, financial, and technology-related risk.
• Exposure to wireframing, prototyping, and process-diagramming tools.
• Prior experience working alongside a Data Engineering team on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure.