Senior Business Analyst – Baltimore City, Financial Data Migration (Remote)

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst Baltimore City Financial Data Migration

Location: Baltimore City MD

Employment Type: Full-time Remote

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to lead and support a major data migration project for our Baltimore City. The successful candidate will play a critical role in migrating financial billing and tax data and processes from a legacy Cobalt mainframe environment to a modern Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. This role requires a seasoned professional with strong analytical and problem-solving skills in-depth experience in public sector projects and a proven track record of delivering complex data migrations and process transformations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Migration Leadership: Lead and facilitate data migration efforts from a Cobalt mainframe environment to a modern SaaS platform ensuring accuracy security and integrity of financial billing and tax data.
• Business Process Analysis: Analyze current financial billing and tax processes identify gaps inefficiencies and dependencies and propose optimized solutions for integration with the new SaaS solution.
• Requirements Gathering and Documentation: Work closely with Baltimore City stakeholders to capture and document business and technical requirements including data mapping transformation rules workflows and reporting needs.
• Collaboration with Technical Teams: Collaborate with cross-functional technical teams including developers database administrators data analysts and SaaS vendors to design test and deploy the migration solution.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as a liaison between Baltimore City departments and the project team facilitating clear communication status updates and alignment of expectations.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Develop and execute testing strategies including data validation system testing user acceptance testing (UAT) and post-implementation reviews.
• Change Management: Support change management initiatives including end-user training documentation of new processes and ensuring a smooth transition to the new SaaS solution.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience in Local Government: Minimum of 5 years of experience working on projects within local government agencies with a strong understanding of public sector processes regulations and priorities.
• Data Migration Expertise: Proven experience leading large-scale data migrations specifically involving financial billing and tax systems preferably from mainframe environments to modern platforms.
• Mainframe Knowledge: Familiarity with Cobalt mainframe systems including data structures and processing workflows is highly preferred.
• SaaS Solutions: Experience working on projects involving the implementation or integration of SaaS solutions with a focus on financial or billing systems.
• Business Analysis Skills: Strong analytical skills for eliciting and documenting requirements creating process diagrams and defining data transformation and migration strategies.
• Technical Acumen: Understanding of data transformation ETL (extract transform load) processes data mapping and SQL queries.
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience working with diverse stakeholder groups. Ability to lead workshops meetings and presentations.
• Project Management Support: Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g. Agile Waterfall) and experience supporting project delivery milestones and schedules.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification: Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or equivalent certification is a plus.
• Change Management: Experience in change management strategies for technology transitions.
• Familiarity with SaaS Platforms: Experience with SaaS solutions related to financial and billing systems such as Oracle ERP Cloud Workday Financials or other comparable platforms.