Job Description
As the Cloud Business Systems Analyst (BSA), you will become part of an elite technology team specializing in Cloud infrastructure and application migration projects.
You will document the "as-is” infrastructure and application computing environment of an acquired company to provide Lead Architects the information necessary to develop migration and transition plans. You will be required to build and maintain a project plan, track project team deliverables, validate team member timesheets, maintain Kanban board activities, conduct project team meetings, report status to client project/program managers, attend many project meetings with the broader, client project team.
As part of the Cloud team you will need to be an enthusiastic self-starter and facilitator, capable of working between the IT team and business line stake holders. You must have excellent communication and collaborative working skills as ou will be working with various teams of server, network, cloud, and desktop architects and engineers.
Responsibilities:
Discovery
- Responsible for creating and maintaining the "Discovery Log,” which is the "master document” of data collected from the acquired company.
- This data will be collected through conversations with IT staff led by our Lead Architects and deep discovery provided by our engineers. You will need to compile this information and produce a requirements document (also known as a "Persona”) and "Point-of-View” document.
- During Discovery, you must also identify business processes needing to be absorbed or replaced by our Client. These business processes will get documented and handed-off to the "Business as Usual” Client team.
- Be the "librarian” of artifacts used by the Architects and Engineers and ensure everything is catalogued and documented in the event of an audit.
- Create, seek approval for, and communicate a project plan, adding tasks to our Kanban Board, for this and other phases of the project.
- Track task status, team time, and produce status reports.
Solution/Integration Design and Approach
- Support Architects and Engineers during this phase by conducting "Intake Calls” to gather additional information during this process. This usually results in scope change, which is acceptable at this phase of the project.
- Update project plan as appropriate, track task status and team time, and produce status reports.
User Acceptance Testing ( "Early Adoption”)
- Based on data collected during the Discovery phase, create test plans.
- Document testing results and initiate additional Solution/Integration Design and Approach tasks in the event of necessary changes.
- Update project plan as appropriate, track task status and team time, and produce status reports.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Business Systems Analyst with an understanding of how to gather and communicate requirements for computing Cloud infrastructures and managing migration projects.
- Experience managing an infrastructure or application migration project with a solid fundemental Business analysis approach.
- Proficiency with Agile methodologies.
- Basic knowledge of how desktops, laptops, servers, storage, networks, databases, security, resiliency, and cloud environments (including Software as a Service) interoperate within complex computing environments.
- Expertise doing complex analysis and reporting with Microsoft Excel and creating deliverables using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
- A self-starter capable of researching, developing, and communicating requirements with limited up-front detailed knowledge.
- The ability to multitask across multiple projects with overlapping deliverables.
- Be comfortable working in a hybrid environment.
- Be able to present ideas in an open forum with executive-level attendants.
- Create weekly status reports, track time, and escalate risks.
Ideal candidates will be able to show the following:
- Output from work done as a Business Systems Analyst.
- Internal and external project communication.
About Harvard Partners, LLP, Trusted Advisors to IT:
Harvard Partners is a management consulting firm focused on helping companies more effectively leverage their IT investment. We engage with the C-Suite and Technology Team to help them better understand their IT infrastructure and process in order to align the technology strategy and organization to reach the firm’s strategic business goals.Some of our practices include:• Program/Project Management and "PMO as a Service"• IT Assessments• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery• Optimized Infrastructure• Concierge Managed Services• Data Center Strategy, Transformation, and Migration• Cloud Management Programs• Security Assessments and Remediation• Staffing, technical & tacticalWorking with the client’s staff, vendors, and consultants, we deliver supportive and collaborative engagements where direct dialog, simplified reporting, productive meetings, and clear responsibility and accountability encourage active participation resulting in consensus-based business outcomes.