Business Analyst – Cloud Migration & Transformation

Business Analyst – Cloud Migration & Transformation

Location: Finsbury Park / Hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join a major Cloud Migration & Transformation programme. This role will be instrumental in bridging the gap between business and technical teams, ensuring that application migration initiatives are successfully planned, delivered, and aligned with business objectives.

You will work closely with stakeholders across infrastructure, networking, security, architecture, and business functions to gather requirements, assess applications, support migration planning, and drive successful cloud adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse, and document business and technical requirements for cloud migration projects.
• Conduct application discovery and assessment activities to understand existing environments and dependencies.
• Identify infrastructure, networking, security, compliance, and integration requirements.
• Document current-state and future-state processes, architectures, and business workflows.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder meetings across business and technical teams.
• Translate business needs into functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and process documentation.
• Support migration planning, testing, cutover, business readiness, and post‑migration activities.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Maintain stakeholder engagement and provide regular project communications and status updates.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, project managers, and operational teams to ensure successful migration outcomes.
• Support governance, compliance, and change management activities throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Proven experience working as a Business Analyst on cloud migration, application migration, or cloud transformation programmes.
• Strong requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation skills.
• Experience conducting application discovery and assessment workshops.
• Understanding of infrastructure components including servers, storage, networking, databases, and cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and risk management principles.
• Experience mapping business processes and creating current-state and future-state models.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience supporting testing, cutover, and business readiness activities.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities in a complex environment.
• Experience working with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud migration programmes.
• Knowledge of migration strategies such as Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, and Retain.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience within large‑scale enterprise transformation programmes.
• Relevant Business Analysis or Cloud certifications (BCS, CBAP, Azure, AWS, etc.).

Key Areas of Focus

The successful candidate will have experience in:

• Application Discovery & Assessment
• Cloud Migration Requirements Gathering
• Stakeholder Management
• Process Mapping & Documentation
• Infrastructure & Network Analysis
• Security & Compliance Requirements
• Migration Planning & Readiness
• Testing & Cutover Support

Non-Functional Requirements Knowledge

A strong understanding of the following areas is essential:

• Performance
• Availability & Resilience
• Scalability
• Security & Access Management
• Disaster Recovery (RTO/RPO)
• Network Connectivity & Latency
• Monitoring & Supportability

Why Join Us

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a large-scale cloud transformation programme, working alongside business and technology leaders to deliver strategic change and modernise critical applications and services.

If you are passionate about business analysis, cloud technologies, and driving successful transformation initiatives, we would love to hear from you.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre‑employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Our commitments

WPS is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.

We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work. As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme. Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at wpsrecruitment@wates.co.uk