100% Remote: Sr. IT Business Analyst

Sr. IT Business Analyst resource with Cloud/IT Infrastructure/Disaster Recovery/ERP experience

6+ Month Contract-to-hire role for a Health Products client in Temecula, CA.

Position Summary

The IT Business Analyst provides structured analysis and documentation to support enterprise-wide initiatives across infrastructure, technology modernization, cybersecurity, compliance readiness, and operational optimization. This includes direct, hands-on involvement in Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP), HITRUST audits, cloud maturity documentation, and the implementation of IT governance processes such as Change Management. This role is responsible for capturing, translating, and validating complex business requirements into measurable deliverables, including functional specifications, use cases, and integration plans, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and technical standards.

Requirements Analysis & Documentation:

• Conduct structured interviews, workshops, and workflow mapping sessions with stakeholders to capture current processes, dependencies, and target outcomes.
• Translate business requirements into testable functional and technical specifications, including workflows, use cases, and traceability matrices.
• Develop business rules and acceptance criteria to ensure solutions are measurable and verifiable.
• Validate requirements through iterative stakeholder reviews to eliminate scope ambiguity or misalignment.
• Ensure documentation meets compliance and audit-readiness standards and provides full traceability for future enhancements, including HITRUST certification requirements, cybersecurity controls, and regulatory

compliance frameworks.

• Perform impact analyses to evaluate downstream effects on workflows, data, and integrated systems.

Project Execution Support:

• Collaborate with project managers to define scope, timelines, deliverables, and contingency plans for assigned initiatives.
• Support both Agile and Waterfall project approaches by maintaining backlogs, sprint artifacts, and change control documentation with precision.
• Coordinate with external vendors to ensure alignment on deliverables and resolve requirement gaps prior to implementation.
• Participate in formal testing and validation to confirm requirements are met and performance criteria are achieved.
• Maintain a central repository of project artifacts, including risk registers, change logs, and dependency maps, supporting DR/BCP testing results, cloud maturity documentation, and governance change control processes.
• Provide post-implementation reviews to confirm outcomes meet business case expectations and capture lessons learned.

Process Improvement & Governance:

• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce redundancy through automation or integration of systems.
• Recommend solutions that align with governance policies, security protocols, and operational risk requirements, including HITRUST, HIPAA, and other compliance frameworks.
• Develop standardized operating procedures (SOPs) to institutionalize successful workflows and maintain compliance.
• Create metrics dashboards to monitor performance, adoption rates, and solution effectiveness.
• Contribute to governance playbooks and cross-departmental training materials to support consistent project delivery.

Required Knowledge:

• Structured business analysis methodologies, including requirements elicitation, documentation, and validation.
• Core concepts of enterprise IT systems, data flows, and system dependencies.
• Agile and Waterfall project frameworks and their respective deliverables.
• Understanding of data governance, privacy regulations, cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., HITRUST, HIPAA), disaster recovery planning, and audit controls affecting enterprise projects.

Preferred Knowledge:

• Familiarity with governance frameworks and best practices for enterprise project execution.
• Knowledge of data analysis techniques for evaluating workflow performance, solution impact, and adoption trends.
• Experience with collaboration and project tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, and Visio.
• Awareness of automation and data visualization platforms for enterprise reporting and process improvement.

Preferred Experience:

• Three (3) or more years of direct experience in enterprise-scale initiatives involving infrastructure or systems improvement, including direct participation in DR/BCP planning, compliance audits, and IT governance maturity efforts such as Change Management.
• Two (2) or more years of experience in project coordination or project management functions.
• Experience managing multi-vendor project deliverables, ensuring integration across diverse technology platforms.

Preferred Skills:

• Competence with advanced reporting and visualization tools for metrics tracking and stakeholder reporting.
• Experience working with external vendors and internal teams on multiphase implementations.
• Skills in change management techniques to support adoption of new processes and systems.
• Ability to design system integration strategies to improve end-to-end business process performance.