- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Source
- RecruiterFlow
Description
Hi there! We are South, and our client is looking for an IT Business Analyst – Application Mapping!
Note to Applicants:
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Eligibility: This position is open to candidates residing in Latin America.
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Application Language: Please submit your CV in English. Applications submitted in other languages will not be considered.
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Professional Presentation: We encourage you to showcase your professional experience by including a Loom video in the application form. While this is optional, candidates who provide a video presentation will be given priority.
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Interview Policy: The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools during interviews are strictly prohibited.
- Note: As part of the final stages of the selection process, contractors may be asked to provide professional references for a reference check. If you're selected, you may also be asked to update their LinkedIn profile. 🙂
About the Company
Our client is an enterprise organization undertaking a broader IT modernization and infrastructure planning initiative. As part of this effort, they need a clear, validated picture of their application landscape — how systems, infrastructure, and business functions connect — before making decisions about future migrations or architectural changes.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced IT Business Analyst to support an application mapping and IT environment assessment project. The primary objective of this engagement is to develop a clear understanding of the client's application landscape, including applications, business functions, infrastructure, dependencies, integrations, and key stakeholders.
The successful candidate will gather information from technical and business stakeholders, analyze application relationships and dependencies, and produce documentation that can support future infrastructure and migration planning.
Responsibilities
- Conduct interviews and discovery sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
- Identify and document the client's application portfolio.
- Map applications to business functions, departments, and key business processes.
- Document application owners, users, criticality, technology platforms, and hosting environments.
- Identify dependencies between applications, infrastructure, databases, services, and integrations.
- Map application-to-application and application-to-infrastructure relationships.
- Identify upstream and downstream dependencies that could impact future infrastructure changes or migrations.
- Gather and validate information from multiple sources, including stakeholders, existing documentation, and technical teams.
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and missing information within the current application inventory.
- Develop application inventories, dependency maps, and supporting documentation.
- Help assess application criticality, business impact, and migration considerations.
- Work closely with infrastructure, architecture, and business teams to validate findings.
- Translate technical information into clear documentation that can be understood by both technical and business stakeholders.
- Contribute to a final assessment and recommendations for future application and infrastructure planning.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Application Analyst, or similar role.
- Experience with application discovery, application portfolio management, or dependency mapping.
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, infrastructure, databases, integrations, and IT environments.
- Experience gathering requirements and conducting discovery interviews with technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to understand and document complex application dependencies and relationships.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent documentation and process-mapping skills.
- Experience creating application inventories, dependency maps, process flows, or similar artifacts.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting IT transformation, modernization, or migration initiatives.
Engagement
- Project duration: 1–2 months
- Scope: Application discovery, mapping, dependency analysis, and documentation
- Compensation: Competitive, paid in USD
- Potential: Follow-on work may be available depending on the client's needs.
If this opportunity sounds good to you, send us your resume!