Senior Strategic Business Analyst - Cloud Expertise

Accountabilities:

• 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.

Benefits:

• 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 with flexible telecommuting options across the United States.
• Work schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week.
• Healthcare: Multiple medical plan options, including options with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision coverage.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan with the ability to make pre- and post-tax contributions and receive a company match.
• Paid time off: Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, plus 10 paid holidays, with additional vacation, sick, and personal leave options.
• Family and personal support: Paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave.
• Paid family leave: Eligible employees may receive up to 160 hours of paid family leave during a rolling 12-month period.
• Financial protection: Short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident coverage may be provided or available.
• Flexibility: Full-flex work weeks where operationally possible, supporting work-life balance and personal priorities.
• Professional growth: Opportunities to contribute to major cloud modernization and transformation initiatives while developing strategic, technical, and advisory expertise.
• Travel: No travel is required for this position.