Business & Architecture Analyst – Portfolio & Data

NPAworldwide; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NPAworldwide is assisting a leading global consultancy in recruiting a Business and Architecture Analyst for a permanent role. The position begins on the Hudson Tunnel Project in the New York area, delivering technology portfolio management, enterprise architecture analysis, and governance.

You will develop reporting for the Director and leadership, manage the application portfolio, and drive data governance initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in business analysis, systems analysis, or enterprise architecture analysis.
• Two or more years of experience maintaining an application portfolio, CMDB, or technology inventory.
• Experience creating process maps using BPMN and data-flow diagrams with Visio, Lucidchart, or draw.io.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements, facilitating workshops, writing user stories, and developing business cases.
• Working understanding of SaaS, integrations, APIs, and data classification.
• Strong Excel, SharePoint, and Power BI skills with structured data.
• Clear written communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the application register with owner, purpose, users, cost, contract term, renewal date, data classification, integrations, support model, and SSO.
• Reconcile the application register with procurement, finance records in Sage Intacct, and asset records in NinjaOne.
• Document current-state processes, data flows, and integration maps.
• Lead technology intake for new software and change requests, screening duplicates, collecting business cases, routing for technical review, and tracking through IT Steering Committee decisions.
• Lead requirements workshops and prepare requirements, user stories, business cases, and options analyses.
• Perform current-state vs target-state gap analyses and maintain the business capability map.
• Maintain the AI use-case inventory for the AI Governance Working Group.
• Track license renewals 90 days in advance and flag upcoming renewals to system owners.
• Support data governance by recording data owner and data classification for each system.
• Produce technology portfolio reports and dashboards for the Director and leadership.

Skills

Technology portfolio management

Business analysis

Enterprise architecture analysis

Technology governance

Data governance

Requirements workshops

Gap analyses

AI governance

MS Excel

Power BI

SharePoint

Visio / diagramming tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/IT/Business

Tools

Sage Intacct

NinjaOne

Job description

NPAworldwide is assisting a leading global consultancy in recruiting a Business and Architecture Analyst for a permanent role. The position begins on the Hudson Tunnel Project in the New York area, delivering technology portfolio management, enterprise architecture analysis, and governance.

You will develop reporting for the Director and leadership, manage the application portfolio, and drive data governance initiatives.