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Business Data Analyst roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as statistics, computer science, or information systems. Employers file the LCA with DOL before sponsoring, and USCIS adjudicates the petition, no lottery exemptions apply to this role.
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Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. Our team's greatest value is in providing proactive and consultative trends and insights from rich, trusted data sources for informed decision-making.
What you’ll do in the role:
Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Director, Business Analysis in New York, New York to participate in all phases of the Agile lifecycle, including working with the Product Owner to understand business requirements, refining and grooming JIRA user stories, and coordinating design discussions and end to end testing. Analyze functional and technical requirements, document with use cases, wireframes, data flow diagrams, sample reports, or other similar artifacts. Collaborate with key stakeholders from business, technology, UX, risk, legal and compliance to elicit requirements. Act as the interface and advocate between the business users and the development teams. Proactively identify and address issues to full resolution and providing status updates on progress. Conduct review sessions with the various stakeholders on the artifacts. Highlight risks and issues during the software development lifecycle. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Requires a Master’s in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field of study
- Requires three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as an Associate, Manager, Analyst, or a related role
- Requires three (3) years of experience with the following skills:
- Agile/Scrum delivery, including sprint planning, backlog refinement/grooming, sprint reviews, and retrospectives;
- Translating business needs into functional and technical requirements, including documenting use cases, user journeys/flows, and non-functional requirements;
- Producing analysis and design artifacts, including process flows, data flow diagrams, and interface and API specifications;
- Using Visio, Excalidraw, or Gliffy;
- Coordinating end-to-end testing activities, including writing test scenarios/cases, supporting SIT/UAT, triaging defects, and validating fixes through to closure;
- Running reviews and walkthroughs, and maintaining clear status reporting;
- Using Jira to create and refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and manage epics and features;
- Tracking defects, risks, and dependencies; and
- Using Atlassian Confluence to organize and maintain project documentation, including technical scripts, datasets, and support artifacts.
- Requires two (2) years of experience with the following skills:
- Querying and validating data to support requirements and testing using SQL, including reconciling outputs and troubleshooting data issues across environments;
- Creating stakeholder-ready materials, including requirements decks, workflow walkthroughs, and release notes, using Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; and
- Using reporting and data visualization tools, including Microsoft Power BI and Tableau, to build and maintain dashboards and reports, define KPIs and metrics, perform ad hoc analysis, and communicate insights to stakeholders.
- Requires any amount of experience with the following skills:
- Using AI-assisted tools, including Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot, to accelerate documentation drafting, meeting summarization, creation of test cases and checklists, and code and query scaffolding;
- Using Microsoft Excel for analysis and delivery execution, including pivot tables, XLOOKUP or INDEX-MATCH, conditional formatting, basic charts, requirements traceability, UAT progress, and defect triage log;
- Creating executive-ready documentation and presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint;
- Using Dataiku to support data preparation and analytics;
- Working with enterprise data lakes (“datalake”) and lakehouse-style architectures; and
- Snowflake.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $158,000 and $165,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
Company Profile:
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. Our team's greatest value is in providing proactive and consultative trends and insights from rich, trusted data sources for informed decision-making.
What you’ll do in the role:
Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. is seeking a Director, Business Analysis in New York, New York to participate in all phases of the Agile lifecycle, including working with the Product Owner to understand business requirements, refining and grooming JIRA user stories, and coordinating design discussions and end to end testing. Analyze functional and technical requirements, document with use cases, wireframes, data flow diagrams, sample reports, or other similar artifacts. Collaborate with key stakeholders from business, technology, UX, risk, legal and compliance to elicit requirements. Act as the interface and advocate between the business users and the development teams. Proactively identify and address issues to full resolution and providing status updates on progress. Conduct review sessions with the various stakeholders on the artifacts. Highlight risks and issues during the software development lifecycle. Telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Requires a Master’s in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field of study
- Requires three (3) years of experience in the position offered or three (3) years as an Associate, Manager, Analyst, or a related role
- Requires three (3) years of experience with the following skills:
- Agile/Scrum delivery, including sprint planning, backlog refinement/grooming, sprint reviews, and retrospectives;
- Translating business needs into functional and technical requirements, including documenting use cases, user journeys/flows, and non-functional requirements;
- Producing analysis and design artifacts, including process flows, data flow diagrams, and interface and API specifications;
- Using Visio, Excalidraw, or Gliffy;
- Coordinating end-to-end testing activities, including writing test scenarios/cases, supporting SIT/UAT, triaging defects, and validating fixes through to closure;
- Running reviews and walkthroughs, and maintaining clear status reporting;
- Using Jira to create and refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and manage epics and features;
- Tracking defects, risks, and dependencies; and
- Using Atlassian Confluence to organize and maintain project documentation, including technical scripts, datasets, and support artifacts.
- Requires two (2) years of experience with the following skills:
- Querying and validating data to support requirements and testing using SQL, including reconciling outputs and troubleshooting data issues across environments;
- Creating stakeholder-ready materials, including requirements decks, workflow walkthroughs, and release notes, using Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; and
- Using reporting and data visualization tools, including Microsoft Power BI and Tableau, to build and maintain dashboards and reports, define KPIs and metrics, perform ad hoc analysis, and communicate insights to stakeholders.
- Requires any amount of experience with the following skills:
- Using AI-assisted tools, including Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot, to accelerate documentation drafting, meeting summarization, creation of test cases and checklists, and code and query scaffolding;
- Using Microsoft Excel for analysis and delivery execution, including pivot tables, XLOOKUP or INDEX-MATCH, conditional formatting, basic charts, requirements traceability, UAT progress, and defect triage log;
- Creating executive-ready documentation and presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint;
- Using Dataiku to support data preparation and analytics;
- Working with enterprise data lakes (“datalake”) and lakehouse-style architectures; and
- Snowflake.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $158,000 and $165,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Business Data Analyst
Align your degree to the role
Your degree field must directly relate to business data analysis. A statistics, mathematics, or information systems degree strengthens your specialty occupation argument. A general business degree can work, but expect your employer's attorney to document the connection carefully.
Verify the prevailing wage tier before accepting
Look up your job title and work location in the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating. Your offered salary must meet at least the Level I wage for your SOC code and location, falling short delays LCA certification and can stall the entire petition.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to find Business Data Analyst roles at employers who have certified LCAs in your target metro. Employers with recent filings have already cleared DOL's process, which means faster onboarding and fewer internal approvals required from HR.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before your start date
Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify to legally employ you on H-1B status. Ask HR to confirm enrollment during the offer stage, not after you've given notice. A non-enrolled employer cannot sponsor you without first registering.
Request premium processing if your start date is fixed
Standard H-1B adjudication at USCIS can stretch beyond six months. If your start date is tied to a project launch or fiscal quarter, ask your employer to file with premium processing, USCIS guarantees a decision within 15 business days under that service.
Document your O*NET job zone classification early
Pull the O*NET profile for Business Data Analyst and screenshot the Job Zone 4 classification and typical education requirement before your petition is drafted. Attorneys use this to anchor the specialty occupation argument, and having it ready shortens prep time.
H-1B Visa Business Data Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Business Data Analyst role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position genuinely requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific related field, statistics, data science, computer science, or information systems are the strongest fits. USCIS scrutinizes job descriptions that list a degree as preferred rather than required, so the offer letter and supporting documentation must reflect an actual degree requirement, not a preference.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Business Data Analyst positions?
Large technology firms, financial institutions, healthcare systems, and consulting companies file the highest volume of LCAs for data analyst roles. Migrate Mate filters Business Data Analyst listings by verified LCA filing history, so you can identify employers who have actively sponsored this role rather than relying on a company's general reputation for sponsorship.
What happens to my H-1B if my employer changes my job duties significantly?
A material change in job duties, location, or salary can require an amended H-1B petition. Moving from descriptive analytics to a role that is primarily software engineering, for example, may no longer fit the original petition's specialty occupation description. Your employer must file an amendment with USCIS before the change takes effect to keep your status valid.
Can I work for multiple employers as a Business Data Analyst on H-1B?
Yes, through concurrent H-1B sponsorship. Each employer must file a separate H-1B petition, and each filing requires its own LCA certified by DOL. This is common for analysts who consult part-time alongside full-time employment. Both petitions must be approved and active before you begin work for the second employer.
How does working remotely affect my H-1B status as a Business Data Analyst?
Your LCA is certified for a specific worksite location. If you work remotely from a location not covered by your LCA, your employer may need to file a new or amended LCA for that address. Short-term travel is generally not a problem, but a permanent remote arrangement in a different metro area requires DOL and potentially USCIS paperwork to stay compliant.