Senior Technical Business Analyst – Cloud Architecture Modernization

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst to support the modernization of a large public-sector web application and related systems.

The consultant will partner with the Solution Architect, project leadership, IT teams, business stakeholders, security, and compliance teams to develop and evaluate two cloud-based solution options. The role requires strong experience in architecture-focused analysis, requirements management, process improvement, stakeholder facilitation, data governance, and technical documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the Solution Architect to develop and compare two cloud modernization options.
• Gather, analyze, prioritize, and document business, functional, technical, security, integration, data, accessibility, and compliance requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical and non-functional requirements.
• Assess current applications, integrations, workflows, supporting systems, documentation, and operational constraints.
• Document current-state and target-state processes and identify business, operational, training, and change-management impacts.
• Develop and maintain a Requirements Traceability Matrix for both solution options.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, architecture discussions, process reviews, and solution-comparison sessions.
• Prepare meeting minutes, presentations, decision logs, action items, risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Translate complex architecture, security, integration, and operational concepts into clear business language.
• Compare solution options based on performance, scalability, security, availability, supportability, cost, risk, and business alignment.
• Support data-governance, records-management, compliance, and high-level data-migration planning.
• Assist with project planning, deliverable reviews, milestone tracking, knowledge transfer, and project closeout.
• Produce accurate and accessible documentation for business, technical, and executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting government or public-sector modernization projects.
• Experience with public-facing transactional or regulatory applications.
• Experience evaluating cloud architecture options and total cost of ownership.
• Knowledge of legacy-system modernization, data migration, accessibility, and AI use cases.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, Jama, or similar tools.
• Certification such as CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, PMP, SAFe, Azure Fundamentals, or equivalent.

Location Requirement

Candidates must currently reside in Washington State, preferably in Olympia or the greater Seattle area, and be available for in-person meetings as required.