# Strategic Sr. Business Analyst - Cloud Expertise

**Company**: GDIT
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,500 - $218,500
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst with strong strategic analysis, enterprise planning, and delivery-focused functional analysis expertise to support our PPS Modernization Program.

The Senior Business Analyst serves as a strategic advisor, translating executive priorities into actionable roadmaps while ensuring functional requirements for complex IT systems are fully defined, analyzed, and validated.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategic Analysis & Enterprise Planning**

- Collaborate with executive stakeholders to define business problems, strategic objectives, and high-level solution approaches for modernization.

- Develop and present business cases, including business process automation, analysis, and recommendations.

- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Strategy, and Portfolio Governance teams to create and maintain strategic roadmaps.

- Evaluate business processes at the macro level using enterprise capability mapping, value stream analysis, and process decomposition.

- Facilitate strategic workshops, decision forums, and prioritization sessions with senior leadership.

- Shape the initial scope, objectives, and success criteria for new modernization initiatives before transition to delivery teams.

- Ensure alignment between strategy, technology, modernization goals, and organizational priorities.

- Provide expert guidance to clients recommending functional and strategic improvements.

- Deliver recommendations, analyses, and briefings to senior-level stakeholders.

- Operate effectively in ambiguous environments and shape early-phase initiatives into actionable plans.

**Functional Analysis & Delivery Support**

- Analyze user needs to determine functional requirements for a wide variety of projects and highlight areas of improvement.

- Utilize advanced, highly complex modeling and measuring techniques.

- Perform functional modeling based on requirements analysis.

- Direct functional testing of various projects or systems.

- Research, identify, and recommend resources required for task execution and completion.

- Develop new functionality or update existing functionality to meet client needs.

- Write and update project documentation including procedures, presentations, and training materials.

- Perform functional allocations to identify tasks and their inter-relationships.

- Consult with clients to determine optimum design for assigned projects.

- May provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced analysts.

- May serve as a mentor to less experienced analysts.

- May serve as team or task lead.

- Serve as advisor to clients in assigned subject areas, recommends functional changes, and identifies areas for further investigation.

- Generate recommendations in the form of briefings, reports, and other major documents provided to senior-level client personnel.

**Required Skills & Experience**

- Minimum 10 years of experience, including at least 8 years specialized in IT system functional analysis, preferably supporting cloud or large-scale modernization efforts.

- Demonstrated experience in strategic analysis, enterprise planning, or business consulting.

- Superior functional knowledge of modernization programs and complex, integrated IT systems.

- Strong analytical abilities.

- Expertise in defining, documenting, and managing complex business rules.

- Experience using Agile tools and processes, including Jira.

- Ability to communicate complex strategy and functional concepts to senior stakeholders.

- Knowledge of enterprise business architecture, capability models, and portfolio management.

- BS degree in an IT-related field.

**Nice-to-Have Skills**

- Experience in Mainframe Business Process Re-engineering.

- Experience in zCloud and AWS/Azure Cloud Modernization.

- Familiarity with BPA tools and BPMN, CMN, DMN modeling.

- Experience leveraging Generative AI for documenting requirements and business rules.

- Knowledge of database technologies such as DATACOM, DB2, Azure SQL & PostgreSQL.

- Experience in Agile methodology for modernization initiatives.

- MBA or related advanced degree.

- Prior experience in portfolio governance or enterprise strategy.

The likely salary range for this position is $161,500 - $218,500.

## Skills

### Required
- Business
- Business Systems
- Functional Requirements
- Requirements Analysis
- Agile
- Jira
- Enterprise Architecture
- Portfolio Governance

### Nice to have
- Mainframe Business Process Re-engineering
- zCloud
- AWS/Azure Cloud Modernization
- BPA tools
- BPMN
- CMN
- DMN modeling
- Generative AI
- DATACOM
- DB2
- Azure SQL
- PostgreSQL
- MBA

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