Business Analyst Project Management

Job Title: Business Analyst – Azure Migration Job Type: 6-Month Part-Time Contract Hours: 10–12 hours per week Location: 100% Remote (Candidates must be available to work in Mountain Standard Time business hours) Rate: $55/hr T4 OR $70/hr Inc. Overview Our client in the Oil & Gas sector is seeking an experienced Business Analyst for a 6-month part-time contract to support a strategic Azure migration initiative. This role will play a key part in bridging business and technical teams to ensure a smooth migration of applications, infrastructure, and related business processes to Microsoft Azure. This is a fully remote opportunity; however, candidates must be located and available to work during Mountain Standard Time (MST) business hours to align with project stakeholders based in Calgary. Key Responsibilities • Collaborate with business stakeholders, infrastructure teams, cloud architects, and project leadership to gather, document, and validate business and technical requirements related to the Azure migration. • Analyze current-state business processes, application environments, workflows, and system dependencies to support migration planning. • Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and discovery sessions to identify operational requirements, risks, constraints, and business impacts. • Translate business needs into detailed functional and non-functional requirements, process maps, use cases, and user stories. • Support application and infrastructure assessment activities, including documenting system interdependencies, migration readiness, and operational considerations. • Partner with technical teams to ensure business requirements are accurately reflected in migration planning and implementation activities. • Assist in identifying process improvement opportunities and optimization strategies as part of the cloud transformation initiative. • Track project actions, requirements changes, risks, assumptions, and decision logs. • Support testing coordination, user acceptance testing (UAT), and business validation activities as required. • Develop stakeholder-facing documentation, status updates, meeting summaries, and process documentation. • Help drive communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. Required Qualifications • 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within enterprise IT transformation or cloud migration projects. • Hands-on experience supporting Microsoft Azure migration, cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, or application migration initiatives. • Strong understanding of business analysis methodologies, requirements gathering, process mapping, gap analysis, and documentation best practices. • Experience working closely with technical infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, or application teams. • Ability to understand and translate technical concepts into clear business requirements and stakeholder communications. • Experience facilitating workshops and stakeholder discussions across multiple business functions. • Strong documentation skills, including business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process flows, and meeting documentation. • Proficiency with tools such as Microsoft 365, Visio, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration/documentation platforms. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage priorities in a part-time consulting environment. Preferred Qualifications • Previous experience in the Oil & Gas, Energy, Industrial, or Engineering sectors. • Familiarity with Azure cloud services, migration frameworks, or enterprise infrastructure environments. • Experience supporting digital transformation, infrastructure modernization, or cloud adoption initiatives. • Exposure to change management or business readiness activities. • CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile BA, or related certification considered an asset.