Why AIS?
When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.
Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.
Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.
Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.
Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.
What are we looking for?
At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.
What you will be doing?
At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Principal Business Analyst.
Core Knowledge & Skills: Provides visionary leadership, drives global initiatives, explores emerging technologies, and mentors senior executives.
Work & Complexity: Leads global business transformation projects and solves complex enterprise challenges.
Quality & Independence: Develops global standards, drives innovation, and benchmarks against industry leaders.
Teamwork & Communication: Leads global teams, builds strategic partnerships, and influences enterprise-wide strategy.
Consulting & Engagement: Consults on global strategy, influences executive decisions, and leads industry-leading consultation efforts.
As your initial career assignment, you will support the priorities and vital functions of our shared services teams as a(n) Business Analyst Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
Leads stakeholder engagement with application owners, business users, executives, and technical staff across the portfolio.
Pre-populates, interviews, and validates information to establish an initial migration profile for each application, then owns and refines those profiles through migration.
Documents business function, critical transactions, dependencies, operational constraints, and acceptance requirements, reconciling discovery data, existing documentation, and configuration records.
Leads a migration team and is accountable for its assigned applications from planning through acceptance, coordinating engineers, coordinators, testers, and customer subject matter experts.
Validates requirements and dependencies to confirm which applications must move together, confirms readiness before migration, and drives customer acceptance after migration.
Identifies and escalates risks, issues, open questions, and cross-team dependencies to program leadership.
Reports assessment progress, team progress, capacity, and blockers to program leadership.
Required For This Opportunity
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Minimum eight years of business analysis or technical coordination experience, including requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews, and leading a team
Experience assessing applications and delivering application migration, modernization, or cloud adoption projects
Strong understanding of application dependencies, requirements traceability, and acceptance processes
Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business stakeholders, including executives, and drive decisions
Works on complex problems without appreciable direction and provides functional leadership to team members
Nice to Have Skills
Federal program delivery experience
Experience with application portfolio assessment or discovery tools
Experience with ServiceNow,…