Strategic IT Portfolio & Governance Analyst

Parsons; Newark (NJ); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

ESOP

401(k)

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Business and Architecture Analyst to support technology portfolio management, business analysis, and enterprise architecture analysis. You will maintain the application portfolio, document processes and integrations, and prepare decision-ready reporting for the Director and leadership.

You will lead requirements workshops, perform gap analyses, maintain the AI use-case inventory, manage license renewals, and produce portfolio dashboards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, IT, or related field.
• 5+ years in business analysis, systems analysis, or enterprise architecture.
• 2+ years maintaining an application portfolio, CMDB, or tech inventory.
• Experience creating BPMN process maps and data-flow diagrams.
• Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, writing user stories, developing business cases.
• Understanding SaaS, integrations, APIs, and data classification.
• Strong Excel, SharePoint, Power BI 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 status.
• Reconcile the application register with procurement, finance (Sage Intacct), and asset records (NinjaOne).
• Document current-state processes, data flows, and integration maps.
• Run technology intake for new software and change requests, including screening for duplicates and routing for review.
• 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 renewals to 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

BPMN

Data-flow diagrams

Requirements gathering

Workshop facilitation

User stories

Business cases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems

Tools

Visio

Lucidchart

draw.io

Job description

Parsons is seeking a Business and Architecture Analyst to support technology portfolio management, business analysis, and enterprise architecture analysis. You will maintain the application portfolio, document processes and integrations, and prepare decision-ready reporting for the Director and leadership.

You will lead requirements workshops, perform gap analyses, maintain the AI use-case inventory, manage license renewals, and produce portfolio dashboards.