FAA Portfolio Analytics Analyst (Remote)

Kentro; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Kentro is hiring a Business Analyst II to support the FAA Accelerated Transformation of Legacy Applications and Systems (ATLAS) program. The ideal candidate will elicit and analyze business, mission, technology, and operational requirements and translate them into functional specifications and analytical products that support modernization and optimization.

Location: Remote within the United States, supporting Eastern Time hours. Compensation ranges from $82,000 to $98,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in business analysis, requirements management, process improvement, IT portfolio management, or technology modernization.
• Proficiency in elicitation, requirements management, stakeholder analysis, and process modeling.
• Experience developing functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Knowledge of data analysis techniques and ability to query/reconcile structured data using SQL or equivalent tools.
• Experience collaborating across business and technical teams.
• Ability to translate technical information into clear, business-oriented documentation.

Responsibilities

• Support FAA portfolio rationalization, including discovery, inventory, categorization and analysis of applications and services.
• Conduct requirements elicitation sessions and document business, mission, operational, technical, security and compliance requirements.
• Analyze processes to identify efficiency improvements and opportunities for automation and standardization.
• Develop functional specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria; create process models.
• Maintain portfolio inventories, capability maps, and dependency maps with source provenance.
• Assist in identifying opportunities for consolidation, modernization, migration or retirement.
• Contribute to business cases and decision-support materials addressing mission impact, cost and risk.
• Support current-state and future-state architecture artifacts with architects.
• Produce portfolio metrics and dashboards to track health and modernization outcomes.

Skills

Elicitation

Requirements mgmt

Stakeholder analysis

Process modeling

Functional specs

User stories

Acceptance criteria

SQL

Cross-team collab

AI tools

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Backlog tools

Job description

Kentro is hiring a Business Analyst II to support the FAA Accelerated Transformation of Legacy Applications and Systems (ATLAS) program. The ideal candidate will elicit and analyze business, mission, technology, and operational requirements and translate them into functional specifications and analytical products that support modernization and optimization.

Location: Remote within the United States, supporting Eastern Time hours. Compensation ranges from $82,000 to $98,000 annually.