Position Summary
The Business and Architecture Analyst supports technology portfolio management, business analysis, enterprise architecture analysis, technology governance, and data governance. The role maintains a reliable view of the application portfolio, documents business processes and integrations, coordinates technology intake and requirements activities, and produces decision-ready reporting for the Director and leadership.
Key Responsibilities
• Build and maintain the application register, including owner, purpose, users, cost, contract term, renewal date, data classification, integrations, support model, and single sign-on (SSO) status.
• Reconcile the application register with procurement, finance records in Sage Intacct, and asset records in NinjaOne.
• Document current-state business processes, data flows, and integration maps.
• Run the technology intake process for new software and change requests, including screening for duplicate tools, collecting business cases, routing requests for technical review, and tracking requests through IT Steering Committee decisions.
• Lead requirements workshops and prepare requirements, user stories, business cases, and options analyses.
• Perform current-state versus 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 at least 90 days in advance and flag upcoming renewals to system owners.
• Support data governance by recording the data owner and data classification for each system.
• Produce technology portfolio reports and dashboards for the Director and leadership.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in business analysis, systems analysis, or enterprise architecture analysis.
• Two or more years of experience maintaining an application portfolio, configuration management database (CMDB), or technology inventory.
• Experience creating process maps using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and developing data-flow diagrams with Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or draw.io.
• Experience gathering and documenting requirements, facilitating workshops, writing user stories, and developing business cases.
• Working understanding of software as a service (SaaS), integrations, application programming interfaces (APIs), and data classification.
• Strong Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, and Power BI skills, with demonstrated comfort working with structured data.
• Clear written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
• CBAP or CCBA certification.
• TOGAF Foundation certification.
• Experience with capital-program systems such as Kahua or Primavera P6, or with other asset management systems.
• Understanding of the Microsoft Azure platform, Azure DevOps, Jira, or other configuration management systems.
Core Competencies
• Business and systems analysis
• Application portfolio and technology inventory management
• Process, data-flow, integration, and capability mapping
• Requirements facilitation and documentation
• Technology intake and governance coordination
• Data governance and classification
• Portfolio reporting and dashboard development
Additional Information
This job description summarizes the primary duties and qualifications of the position. Responsibilities may evolve based on organizational needs and technology priorities.
Work Details
• Hybrid schedule (Mon-Wed onsite, Thu-Fri remote).
• Occasional off-hours support during critical milestones.
