IT Business Analyst / Data Center & Migration

seeking a driven and detail-oriented IT Business Analyst to support the consolidation and migration planning for two enterprise data centers. You will inventory servers and applications, coordinate migration readiness across application owners and vendors, and maintain a centralized tracking register that provides leadership with clear progress visibility. You are a persistent self-starter who excels at facilitating cross-team conversations, mapping dependencies, and keeping complex workstreams moving forward.



Responsibilities:

• Conduct a full inventory of all servers and applications within targeted data centers (~350-400 servers; 15-20 teams); assign ownership for each asset and document migration readiness status
• Document dependencies, configurations, and application-to-infrastructure relationships for each workload
• Facilitate structured conversations with application owners and infrastructure teams to determine migration method, destination, and timeline
• Coordinate vendor involvement and sign-off for complex applications (e.g., specialty clinical systems and other vendor-managed platforms)
• Maintain a consolidated migration tracking register with status, method, dependencies, and blockers
• Identify and document cross-application and cross-team dependencies; flag migration blockers such as vendor sign-off delays, budget gaps, or downtime constraints for escalation
• Build and maintain a migration progress dashboard with clear status indicators (Pending, In Progress, Complete, Blocked)
• Conduct regular stakeholder follow-ups to ensure commitments are met; escalate unresolved issues to leadership as required
• Align migration sequencing and planning coordination with program timelines; support potential expansion as the program scales to additional data centers Qualifications:
• Familiarity with data center environments, asset inventory practices, and workload migration concepts
• Experience with CMDB or asset management tools and project management platforms
• Strong project or program management experience - milestone tracking, stakeholder coordination, and dependency mapping
• Proficiency in Excel for tracking, inventory management, and data analysis
• Experience building or maintaining dashboards and progress reports in Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent
• Familiarity with IT infrastructure concepts at a working - not engineering - level
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to facilitate cross-team conversations and negotiate timelines and commitments
• Highly independent and self-sustaining; organized, persistent, and detail-oriented
• Ability to synthesize disparate data into clear, actionable reports for senior leadership
• PM-level candidate; direct source preferred Tools and Technologies:
• Power BI / Tableau
• Microsoft Excel (advanced)
• CMDB / asset management tools
• Project management platforms (e.g., Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent)