Senior Application Migration Business Analyst

AIS; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

AIS is seeking a Senior Application Migration Business Analyst to support a large-scale cloud migration program, moving a portfolio from on-premises data centers to Azure and AWS. The role leads discovery, planning, and execution with global teams, ensuring successful migration outcomes.

The position requires strong leadership, deep technical literacy across applications, databases, and integrations, and proven ability to coordinate complex delivery efforts in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• US Citizen.
• Minimum eight years of business analysis, application modernization, or complex IT migration program experience.
• Experience leading application discovery and stakeholder working sessions.
• Strong application architecture literacy, including integrations, databases, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience developing detailed project schedules, managing dependencies, and coordinating technical delivery teams.
• Experience producing migration plans, execution runbooks, readiness packages, and acceptance documentation.
• Strong facilitation, communication, documentation, and issue resolution skills.
• Works on complex problems without appreciable direction and provides functional leadership to team members.

Responsibilities

• Leads application discovery and stakeholder working sessions with application owners and technical subject matter experts, including for applications with incomplete documentation.
• Retrieves, validates, and reconciles application inventory, configuration items, dependencies, and ownership in ServiceNow CMDB, coordinating updates with the CMDB team.
• Creates and maintains requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, and traceability in Jama Connect or comparable platforms.
• Develops detailed migration schedules, dependency trackers, and critical paths, and coordinates technical delivery teams through hour-by-hour cutover plans.
• Produces migration plans, wave packages, execution runbooks, readiness packages, Go/No-Go materials, and acceptance documentation.
• Coordinates change management activities, including RFCs, CAB approvals, and production release windows.
• Leads a migration team and is accountable for its assigned applications from planning through acceptance, escalating risks, issues, and cross-team dependencies to program leadership.
• Facilitates stakeholder decisions and resolves issues under time pressure during migration windows.

Skills

Visionary leadership

Global initiatives

Enterprise transformation

Team leadership

Consulting of global strategy

Tools

Jama Connect

ServiceNow CMDB

Job description

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we’re looking for more than just skills - we’re looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

What you will be doing?

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Principal Business Analyst.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Provides visionary leadership, drives global initiatives, explores emerging technologies, and mentors senior executives.

• Work & Complexity: Leads global business transformation projects and solves complex enterprise challenges.

• Quality & Independence: Develops global standards, drives innovation, and benchmarks against industry leaders.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads global teams, builds strategic partnerships, and influences enterprise-wide strategy.

• Consulting & Engagement: Consults on global strategy, influences executive decisions, and leads industry-leading consultation efforts.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Application Migration Business Analyst.

Project Summary

The Senior Application Migration Business Analyst supports a large-scale enterprise cloud migration program, moving a complex application portfolio from on-premises data centers to Azure and AWS. The role leads application discovery with application owners and technical subject matter experts, then leads a migration team as its pod lead and is accountable for its applications from planning through acceptance. The role is remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads application discovery and stakeholder working sessions with application owners and technical subject matter experts, including for applications with incomplete documentation.
• Retrieves, validates, and reconciles application inventory, configuration items, dependencies, and ownership in ServiceNow CMDB, coordinating updates with the CMDB team.
• Creates and maintains requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, and traceability in Jama Connect or comparable platforms.
• Develops detailed migration schedules, dependency trackers, and critical paths, and coordinates technical delivery teams through hour-by-hour cutover plans.
• Produces migration plans, wave packages, execution runbooks, readiness packages, Go/No-Go materials, and acceptance documentation.
• Coordinates change management activities, including RFCs, CAB approvals, and production release windows.
• Leads a migration team and is accountable for its assigned applications from planning through acceptance, escalating risks, issues, and cross-team dependencies to program leadership.
• Facilitates stakeholder decisions and resolves issues under time pressure during migration windows.

Required For This Opportunity

• US Citizen
• Minimum eight years of business analysis, application modernization, or complex IT migration program experience
• Experience leading application discovery and stakeholder working sessions
• Strong application architecture literacy, including integrations, databases, and infrastructure dependencies
• Experience developing detailed project schedules, managing dependencies, and coordinating technical delivery teams
• Experience producing migration plans, execution runbooks, readiness packages, and acceptance documentation
• Strong facilitation, communication, documentation, and issue resolution skills
• Works on complex problems without appreciable direction and provides functional leadership to team members

Nice to Have Skills

• Cloud migration experience in Azure or AWS
• Hands-on ServiceNow CMDB experience, including configuration item relationships and dependency analysis
• Experience using Jama Connect or comparable requirements and test management platforms
• Familiarity with change management, CAB approvals, and production release windows
• Business analysis or project management certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or PMP
• Federal program delivery experience
• Familiarity with AI technologies and their practical use in IT delivery or cloud environments
  At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $140,000-$211,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

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