Senior Cloud Migration Lead

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

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.