About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Strategic Business Analyst - Cloud Expertise based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Partner with executive stakeholders to define business problems, strategic objectives, modernization priorities, and high-level solution approaches.
- Develop business cases, recommendations, and strategic analyses covering areas such as process automation, operational improvement, financial considerations, and organizational capabilities.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Product Strategy, and Portfolio Governance teams to develop and maintain strategic roadmaps aligned with business and technology objectives.
- Evaluate enterprise processes through capability mapping, value stream analysis, process decomposition, and other advanced business analysis techniques.
- Facilitate strategic workshops, prioritization sessions, decision forums, and stakeholder discussions with senior leadership.
- Shape early-stage modernization initiatives by defining scope, objectives, priorities, success criteria, and transition plans for delivery teams.
- Provide expert guidance to stakeholders, translating complex business and technology concepts into clear recommendations, briefings, reports, and actionable plans.
- Analyze user needs and translate them into detailed functional requirements, business rules, process models, and system capabilities.
- Perform advanced functional modeling, requirements analysis, functional allocation, and assessment of task interdependencies for complex IT systems.
- Support functional testing and validation activities to ensure solutions meet business and user requirements.
- Consult with stakeholders to determine appropriate solution designs and identify opportunities for functional improvements.
- Develop and maintain project documentation, including requirements, procedures, presentations, training materials, and other delivery artifacts.
- Research and recommend the resources, capabilities, and approaches required to successfully execute assigned initiatives.
- Serve as a subject-matter advisor to clients and provide guidance to less-experienced analysts when appropriate.
- Contribute to Agile modernization initiatives, including the use of tools and processes such as Jira.
- Deliver recommendations and strategic insights to senior client stakeholders while identifying areas requiring additional analysis or investigation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field; an MBA or other advanced degree is a plus.
- At least 10 years of professional experience, including 8 or more years specializing in IT systems functional analysis, preferably within cloud modernization or large-scale transformation programs.
- Demonstrated experience in strategic analysis, enterprise planning, business consulting, or similar advisory environments.
- Strong understanding of complex, integrated IT systems and large-scale modernization programs.
- Proven ability to conduct market research, financial analysis, modeling, capability assessments, and other forms of strategic and quantitative analysis.
- Expertise in defining, documenting, validating, and managing complex business requirements and business rules.
- Knowledge of enterprise business architecture, capability modeling, value streams, and portfolio management concepts.
- Experience working within Agile methodologies and using tools such as Jira.
- Strong ability to communicate sophisticated strategy, functional requirements, and technical concepts to both senior executives and delivery teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, structure complex problems, and convert strategic objectives into actionable plans.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance strategic considerations and detailed delivery requirements.
- Preferred: Experience with mainframe business process re-engineering and modernization.
- Preferred: Experience with zCloud and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
- Preferred: Familiarity with BPA tools and BPMN, CMN, or DMN modeling.
- Preferred: Experience using Generative AI to document requirements and business rules.
- Preferred: Knowledge of database technologies such as DATACOM, DB2, Azure SQL, or PostgreSQL.
- Preferred: Experience supporting Agile modernization initiatives, portfolio governance, or enterprise strategy.
Conditions
- Salary: Likely salary range of $161,500–$218,500, with actual compensation determined by experience, geographic location, and potentially contractual requirements.
- Work arrangement: Fully remote position.