Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kentro is hiring a Business Analyst III to support the Federal Aviation Administration’s Accelerated Transformation of Legacy Applications and Systems program. The role focuses on analyzing business, mission, technology, and operational requirements; supporting portfolio modernization and optimization; and developing inventories, metrics, dashboards, governance artifacts, and executive decision-support materials.
Responsibilities
- Support FAA portfolio rationalization efforts, including discovery, inventory, categorization, and analysis of applications, systems, services, and supporting technologies
- Gather and analyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, and compliance requirements from stakeholders and system owners; document source, ownership, confidence, assumptions, and unresolved gaps for material requirements
- Develop and maintain traceable portfolio inventories, capability maps, application profiles, dependency maps, and other analytical artifacts with source provenance and decision linkage
- Identify and validate opportunities for consolidation, integration, modernization, migration, replacement, or retirement
- Analyze relationships and dependencies between business capabilities, applications, infrastructure, data, and enterprise services
- Develop business cases and decision-support materials that quantify mission impact, cost, risk, dependencies, and expected modernization outcomes
- Translate stakeholder needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, process models, and acceptance criteria where appropriate
- Support development of current-state and future-state architectures in collaboration with enterprise and solution architects
- Analyze business processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, standardization, and service delivery
- Establish governed metrics and dashboards to track portfolio health, rationalization progress, investment decisions, and modernization outcomes using reconciled source data, documented definitions, and repeatable calculation logic
- Prepare executive-level briefings, presentations, reports, and recommendations for FAA and program leadership
- Support ongoing governance processes and maintain traceability from business and mission objectives through requirements, capabilities, system disposition decisions, and acceptance criteria
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
- 5-7 years of experience with IT portfolio management, application rationalization, enterprise architecture, or technology modernization
- Strong requirements analysis, process modeling, data analysis, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to interrogate and reconcile structured datasets using SQL or equivalent analysis tools
- Experience working across business and technical organizations
- Ability to translate complex technical information into clear business and executive-level recommendations
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently while coordinating across multiple stakeholder groups
- Proficiency in the use of AI tools for analysis
- US Citizen
- Experience with FAA, federal IT, or other federal governance processes is highly desirable
- Experience as a Business Analyst supporting complex government, aviation, transportation, or enterprise IT environments
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and tools is desirable
- Existing FAA suitability determination or transferable federal background investigation strongly preferred
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Healthcare benefits
- Supplemental benefits
- 401k including an employer match
- Discount perks
- Rewards
- Every employee is eligible for education reimbursement for certifications, degrees, or professional development. Reimbursement amounts may fluctuate due to IRS limitations.
- Flexibility to take a course, complete a certification, or participate in other professional growth and networking
- Funds for activities, including virtual and in-person happy hours, holiday events, fitness and wellness events, and annual celebrations
- Charity galas and events
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