Business Analyst V

Our client, is seeking an experienced, highly analytical Business Analyst V (Senior Legal Document Management & Migration BA) to join a specialized project team.

In this strategic, high-impact role, you will lead diverse business, technology, and external vendor stakeholders through the end-to-end delivery of an enterprise legal document management system implementation. Embedded within an agile, collaborative squad of 5–6 professionals, you will own business, functional, non-functional, data, and migration requirements from initiation through post-implementation. You will spearhead complex source-to-target metadata and field mappings across document and matter-management platforms, translate records-retention and legal-hold obligations into testable specifications, maintain rigorous end-to-end requirements traceability, and drive dry runs and testing readiness across SIT and UAT cycles.

Duration: Contract through End of Fiscal Year 2027 (Strong possibility of extension based on business needs)

Schedule: Monday to Friday, core business hours (Overtime as needed; no rotation)

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (4 days per week on-site, 1 day remote; no travel required)

Advantages
Tier-1 Financial Enterprise Footprint: Lead a complex, high-visibility legal operations and records management transformation within a leading financial institution.

Long-Term Contract Horizon: Secure a stable, multi-quarter consulting engagement running through the end of fiscal year 2027 with extension potential.

Structured Onboarding Program: Transition smoothly into the role with a dedicated 2-week onboarding and knowledge-transfer period.

High-Autonomy Leadership Mandate: Operate under minimal supervision within a tight-knit pod of 5–6 specialists, serving as the central bridge across Legal Operations, enterprise architecture, quality engineering, and external vendors.

Responsibilities
End-to-End Requirements Leadership: Lead, elicit, analyze, document, and manage comprehensive business, functional, non-functional, security, and migration requirements across the full delivery lifecycle.

Source-to-Target Metadata & Field Mapping: Create, validate, and maintain complex data, metadata, and field mappings across legacy repositories, document-management platforms, and matter-management systems; drive resolution on unmapped fields with data owners.

Records Management & Compliance Translation: Translate data lifecycle policies, records retention/disposition schedules, and legal-hold obligations into clear functional requirements, decision logs, and testable acceptance criteria.

Migration Planning & Dry-Run Execution: Lead business analysis for migration scope, source profiling, eligibility rules, sequencing, and work packages; support migration dry runs by defining representative datasets, reconciliation controls, delta behaviors, and exception scenarios.

Security & Entitlement Modeling: Elicit and validate role-based, group, workspace, and restricted-access security requirements, ensuring accurate entitlement and inherited-security designs.

End-to-End Traceability & Testing Support: Own and maintain full traceability from approved requirements through solution design, test scenarios, test cases, defects, and business sign-off across integration, SIT, UAT, and migration testing.

Cross-Functional & Vendor Alignment: Facilitate discovery and alignment sessions (2–4 hours daily) bridging internal Legal Operations, SMEs, Technology, Records/Retention teams, and external implementation vendors; proactively escalate risks and dependencies.

Qualifications
Extensive Business Analysis Experience: Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in a Senior Business Analyst capacity, including at least 3+ years supporting complex enterprise data/document migrations, system implementations, or integrations.

Migration & Metadata Mastery: Demonstrated hands-on experience creating source-to-target data/metadata mappings, defining eligibility and reconciliation rules, and supporting migration dry runs.

Records & Compliance Acumen: Proven experience translating data lifecycle rules, records retention/disposition policies, and legal-hold mandates into actionable business and test requirements.

Traceability & Testing Rigor: Strong background maintaining end-to-end requirements traceability and partnering with Quality Engineering on acceptance criteria, test scripts, and defect triage across SIT and UAT.

Delivery Methodology Agility: Comfortable operating seamlessly within both Agile and Waterfall project delivery frameworks, effectively documenting cross-stream dependencies and constraints.

Education: Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Legal Studies, or a related discipline.

Communication & Leadership: Exceptional facilitation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive consensus across business and technical groups.

Preferred Assets & Nice-to-Haves
Direct background supporting financial services, legal operations, or heavily regulated information management environments.

Recognized Business Analysis Accreditation or certification (e.g., CBAP, CCBA, or PMI-PBA).

Deeper familiarity with enterprise Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) governance frameworks.

Working experience utilizing Jira and Confluence for agile backlog tracking and documentation.

Summary
If you are a tech-savvy Business Analyst V who pairs 8+ years of senior business analysis mastery with hands-on enterprise document/data migration experience, source-to-target metadata mapping, records-retention compliance, and end-to-end traceability rigor, this contract opportunity through FY 2027 is an ideal next step. Bring your analytical precision, cross-functional leadership, and migration expertise to our client's enterprise legal technology team today!

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