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.
