Business Analyst
Houston, TX 77058
Location: REMOTE from a U.S. based location
Job Description
Anakim Consulting Inc. has an opening for a mid-level Business Analyst to support a cloud services environment. Qualified candidates will have experience in enterprise IT or cloud environments.
Responsibilities Include
Provide mid-level support to the program office in identifying services, processes and cost for existing and future IT systems.
Prepare and modify presentations, drawings, flow charts, diagrams, narrative documents and other data for projects/customer presentations and report in a variety of media.
Maintain detailed knowledge of the required compliance documentation. Maintains and updates electronic files, record and data.
Maintain databases current in support of project control and other applicable business activities.
Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, cloud engineering, operations, security, and governance teams.
Maintain responsibility for translating mission, program, and customer needs into clear, actionable requirements; supporting cloud service planning and consolidation initiatives; and ensuring traceability across requirements, decisions, costs, and outcomes.
Enable standardized cloud services, controlled change, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise cloud environment.
Elicit, analyze, and document business and technical requirements for cloud services, platforms, and initiatives.
Support cloud consolidation, modernization, and optimization efforts by assessing current-state environments and defining future-state needs.
Develop and maintain requirements artifacts including business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Facilitate stakeholder engagement across programs, cloud engineering, security, finance (FinOps), and governance bodies.
Support cloud finance office with customer communications and collections for cloud payments.
Support Architecture Review Boards (ARB), Change Control Boards (CCB), and operational reviews with analysis, documentation, and decision traceability.
Assist in defining service catalogs, intake processes, and standardized workflows for cloud services.
Maintain traceability between requirements, architectural decisions, implementation tasks, and delivered outcomes.
Support development of roadmaps, milestones, and metrics for cloud services initiatives.
Contribute to continuous improvement of cloud governance, processes, and reporting.
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