Senior Business Analyst

One of our clients in the government domain is seeking a Senior Business Analyst (10 years) to lead requirements analysis, stakeholder outreach, and process documentation for migrating interfaces and file transfers off legacy mainframe platforms to modern middleware solutions.

Senior Business Analyst
Remote
Teams Interview
long term contract

Key Responsibilities

• Partner Outreach & Coordination: Identify and lead outreach to third-party interface partners to coordinate migration timelines, availability, and testing.
• Interface Inventory & Documentation: Build and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all impacted interfaces, file transfers, and stakeholders.
• Interface Control Documents (ICD): Create detailed ICDs capturing connection details (DNS, ports), folder paths, triggers, and error-handling specs.
• Technical & Cross-Team Collaboration: Align technical plans across mainframe (JCL), Axway/middleware, and distributed platform teams.
• Schedule & Testing Management: Manage migration schedules, drive execution, and oversee end-to-end SFTP setup and testing cycles.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 10 years of relevant IT experience, including work with middleware platforms (e.g., Axway or equivalent).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Mainframe Knowledge: Familiarity with mainframe batch job structures, JCL, job triggers, and scheduling concepts.
• File Transfer & SFTP: Hands-on experience with SFTP configuration, folder provisioning, secure key/credential management, and troubleshooting.
• Documentation & Tools: Expertise in creating technical design artifacts, complex flow diagrams, and ICDs using Visio, Azure, and ALM Octane.
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication skills for coordinating with external vendors, business partners, and senior leadership.