Software Specialist 3 - Business Architecture Analyst - Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project

Parsons Corporation•Newark, NJ

2d•$112,200 - $196,400•Hybrid

About The Position

The Business and Architecture Analyst supports technology portfolio management, business analysis, enterprise architecture analysis, technology governance, and data governance. The role maintains a reliable view of the application portfolio, documents business processes and integrations, coordinates technology intake and requirements activities, and produces decision-ready reporting for the Director and leadership. This position is part of Parsons’ Critical Infrastructure team and supports the Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project. The schedule is hybrid: onsite Monday through Wednesday and remote Thursday and Friday. Occasional off-hours support may be needed during critical milestones. No security clearance is required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
Five or more years of experience in business analysis, systems analysis, or enterprise architecture analysis.
Two or more years of experience maintaining an application portfolio, configuration management database (CMDB), or technology inventory.
Experience creating process maps using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and developing data-flow diagrams with Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or draw.io.
Experience gathering and documenting requirements, facilitating workshops, writing user stories, and developing business cases.
Working understanding of software as a service (SaaS), integrations, application programming interfaces (APIs), and data classification.
Strong Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, and Power BI skills, with demonstrated comfort working with structured data.
Clear written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

CBAP or CCBA certification.
TOGAF Foundation certification.
Experience with capital-program systems such as Kahua or Primavera P6, or with other asset management systems.
Understanding of the Microsoft Azure platform, Azure DevOps, Jira, or other configuration management systems.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the application register, including owner, purpose, users, cost, contract term, renewal date, data classification, integrations, support model, and single sign-on (SSO) status.
Reconcile the application register with procurement, finance records in Sage Intacct, and asset records in NinjaOne.
Document current-state business processes, data flows, and integration maps.
Run the technology intake process for new software and change requests, screening for duplicate tools, collecting business cases, routing requests for technical review, and tracking requests through IT Steering Committee decisions.
Lead requirements workshops and prepare requirements, user stories, business cases, and options analyses.
Perform current-state versus target-state gap analyses and maintain the business capability map.
Maintain the AI use-case inventory for the AI Governance Working Group.
Track license renewals at least 90 days in advance and flag upcoming renewals to system owners.
Support data governance by recording the data owner and data classification for each system.
Produce technology portfolio reports and dashboards for the Director and leadership.