IT Business Analyst

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

Opticore IT are currently searching for an IT Business Analyst to support the analysis & discovery phase of a Data Centre migration/exit programme for a large insurance client. The Business Analyst will work with stakeholders, engineers and 3rd parties to identify exactly what runs through the DC, map application and system ownership, and produce the discovery documentation that underpins the migration plan and scope-change justification.

The is a hybrid position with circa 2 days a week required in Central London and will be on an initial 12 month contract, Inside IR35 with scope to extend.

• Run discovery workshops with stakeholders and engineers, trace circuits/VPNs/application dependencies through the Date Centre, maintain an application and ownership register, and feed findings into the Project Manager's planning and risk assessment.
• Dedicated project work supporting the Analysis & Discovery phase of the migration/exit programme (up to 12 months), not BAU or ongoing operations.
• Establish exactly what runs through its transit Data Centre and who owns it, given that no single record fully captures this today across 30 racks, multiple circuits and roughly 500 applications.
• Work alongside the Senior Project Manager, client stakeholders, application owners, engineers from the incumbent DC/network provider, and 3rd parties.
• Support RAID log maintenance, workshop facilitation, and documentation for the scope-change justification pack.
• Flexibility may be needed to support discovery sessions or change windows outside standard hours.

• Data Centre migration/discovery analysis experience.
• Network/infrastructure literacy (Cisco environments).
• Stakeholder engagement & elicitation - skilled at working with engineers and business stakeholders.
• Documentation & data management - able to build & maintain clear, structured discovery documentation.

At OpticoreIT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

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