Business Analyst Apps Transformation

Job Description

Due to the customer requirements successful applicants must be eligible for high level UK Security clearance. Frequent travel to DXC & Customer sites.

As part of our overall investment and growth strategy in the UK, we are hiring experienced Business Analysts with proven experience in legacy-to-cloud application transformations to join our team.

Initially, the Business Analysts will join an Application Modernisation programme, working hands-on to assess, document, and transform legacy applications into modern, scalable, cloud-native solutions. Over time, there will be opportunities to take on a wider range of technical transformation programmes.

Within the Application Modernisation programme, working within a team, the Business Analyst is responsible for:

• Identifying and documenting legacy applications
  for modernization/transformation
• Analyzing application portfolios
  to determine transformation priorities and approaches
• Assessing technical architecture
  of existing applications and defining target cloud-native architectures
• Bridging the gap between business needs and
  technical transformation solutions
• Supporting the migration of applications from on-premises/legacy platforms to cloud environments

You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with
architects, developers, and infrastructure teams
on technical delivery.

• Conduct application discovery and assessment
  - identify legacy applications in scope for modernization, document current technical architecture, dependencies, and integration points
• Analyze application portfolios
  - evaluate applications for cloud readiness, complexity, and transformation approach (rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild)
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document
  technical and business requirements
  for applications in scope for modernization/transformation
• Work with
  solution architects, cloud architects, and technical leads
  to define target state architectures and migration strategies
• Document application transformation roadmaps
  - define sequencing, dependencies, and technical approach for legacy-to-cloud migrations
• Support
  application configuration, data migration, testing, deployment
  , and post-implementation reviews
• Troubleshoot technical application issues
  during transformation and coordinate with development/infrastructure teams for resolution
• Maintain comprehensive
  technical documentation
  including application inventories, architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, RTMs, migration plans, and system specifications
• Assist in
  change management and technical training
  efforts for transformed applications
• Support continuous improvement of the modernisation process through lessons learned and best practices

• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in application modernization/transformation programmes
• Proven experience with legacy-to-cloud migrations
  (on-premise to Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Understanding of application architecture
  - ability to document technical components, integrations, and dependencies
• Experience assessing applications
  for cloud readiness and defining transformation approaches
• Knowledge of
  cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerization, and modern application patterns
• Proficiency in requirements gathering and documentation,
  technical analysis
  , data analysis and presentation, stakeholder engagement and management
• Experience with tools such as
  JIRA, Confluence, Service Now
  , or similar
• Good understanding of
  software development life cycle (SDLC)and
  agile methodologies
• Experience with a range of
  application types
  (Enterprise, Custom, Packaged) and
  transformation patterns
  (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, refactoring)
• Technical documentation skills
  - architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, API specifications
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral, with ability to
  translate technical concepts for business stakeholders

• Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or equivalent
• Agile/Scrum certification
• Cloud certifications
  (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience with specific transformation tools
  (migration…