Senior Principal Business Analyst - Global Migration Lead

Applied Information Sciences, Inc; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

PTO

Flexible holidays

Parental Leave

Healthcare

Tuition Reimbursement

Referral Bonus

Job summary

Applied Information Sciences, Inc. (AIS) in Virginia seeks a Senior Principal Business Analyst to lead global migration and modernization initiatives. You will manage cross-functional teams, define migration profiles, and drive critical business decisions with executives.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, complex problem solving, and delivering enterprise-wide transformation across cloud adoption and big data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Eight years of business analysis or technical coordination experience, including requirements gathering and stakeholder interviews.
• Experience assessing applications and delivering migration, modernization, or cloud adoption projects.
• Strong understanding of dependencies, traceability, and acceptance processes.
• Facilitation and communication skills to bridge technical and business stakeholders, including executives.
• Ability to lead a migration team through planning to acceptance.

Responsibilities

• Leads stakeholder engagement with application owners, business users, executives, and technical staff across the portfolio.
• Pre-populates, interviews, and validates information to establish a migration profile for each application and manages migration.
• Documents business function, critical transactions, and dependencies, reconciling data and configuration records.
• Leads a migration team and coordinates engineers, coordinators, testers, and customer subject matter experts.
• Validates requirements and dependencies to determine which applications move together and drives customer acceptance after migration.
• Identifies risks and escalates issues to program leadership and reports progress to leadership.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder interviews

Team leadership

Migration planning

Tools

ServiceNow

Azure GovCloud

AWS GovCloud

Job description

Applied Information Sciences, Inc. (AIS) in Virginia seeks a Senior Principal Business Analyst to lead global migration and modernization initiatives. You will manage cross-functional teams, define migration profiles, and drive critical business decisions with executives.

The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, complex problem solving, and delivering enterprise-wide transformation across cloud adoption and big data initiatives.