Technical Business Analyst - Application Migration Programme

Technical Business Analyst - Application Migration Programme

Location: London/Dubai

Employment Type: Contract - 6 months rolling

About the Role

We're looking for a Technical Business Analyst (TBA) to join a large-scale infrastructure & application migration programme. You'll partner with architects, engineers, and application owners to analyse complex systems, define migration strategies, and ensure smooth transitions into modern hosting environments.

What You'll Do

• Assess applications: analyse architecture, dependencies, integrations, and risks.
• Define migration strategies: rehost, replatform, refactor, or retire.
• Support infrastructure alignment: validate target environments, create runbooks, and readiness criteria.
• Manage dependencies & risks: map inter-application impacts, sequence migrations, and track blockers.
• Stakeholder engagement: liaise with SMEs and programme teams, presenting clear findings and recommendations.
• Produce high-quality documentation: assessment reports, migration paths, dependency matrices.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in infrastructure or application migration programmes.
• Strong understanding of application architectures, hosting models (UNIX/Linux, Windows, middleware, databases).
• Skilled in mapping dependencies and defining migration paths across complex estates.
• Exposure to data centre, hybrid, or cloud migrations (AWS, Azure, private cloud).
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proficiency with MS Project, Excel, JIRA, PowerPoint.

Desirable:

• Financial services or regulated industry experience.
• Knowledge of networks, infrastructure fundamentals, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with release/change management in controlled environments.