Business Analyst Pod Lead

Role overview

Lead a team responsible for assessing applications and coordinating their migration from planning through customer acceptance. The role connects business and technical stakeholders to build reliable application profiles, document requirements and dependencies, and confirm readiness for migration. It also provides program leadership with clear progress, capacity, risk, and blocker reporting.

Responsibilities

- Lead discussions with application owners, business users, executives, and technical teams across an application portfolio. - Gather, validate, and maintain migration profiles using interviews, existing documentation, discovery findings, and configuration records. - Document each application's business purpose, critical transactions, dependencies, operating constraints, and acceptance criteria. - Lead a migration team and coordinate engineers, project coordinators, testers, and customer subject matter experts from planning through acceptance. - Validate requirements and dependencies, determine which applications need to move together, and confirm readiness before migration. - Track customer acceptance after migration and raise risks, open questions, and cross-team dependencies to program leadership. - Report assessment and team progress, capacity, and blockers.

Requirements

- U.S. citizenship. - At least eight years of business analysis or technical coordination experience, including requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews, and team leadership. - Experience assessing application portfolios and delivering application migration, modernization, or cloud adoption work. - Strong understanding of application dependencies, requirements traceability, readiness, and acceptance processes. - Strong facilitation and communication skills, including the ability to bridge technical and business stakeholders and drive decisions. - Ability to work independently on complex problems and provide functional leadership to team members.

Nice to have

- Federal program delivery experience or familiarity with application discovery and portfolio assessment tools. - Experience with ServiceNow, configuration management data, or change management processes. - CBAP, PMI-PBA, or PMP certification; experience with Azure Government or AWS GovCloud.

Benefits and work setup

- The listed target base salary is $140,000–$211,000 per year. The final offer depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and location. - The work is described as supporting shared services priorities as an initial career assignment.