Job Description:
**Due to the customer requirements successful applicants must be eligible for high level UK Security clearance. Frequent travel to DXC & Customer sites.**
Business Analyst with Apps Transformation Experience
Role Summary
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.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- 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
Skills Required:
- 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, ServiceNow, 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
Desirable Qualifications:
- Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or equivalent
- Agile/Scrum certification
- Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Experience with specific transformation tools (migration assessment tools, application discovery tools)
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