Role: Senior Workload Automation Analyst

Location: Woodbridge, NJ
(Office presence required for the first 2-3 weeks, then transitioning to ad-hoc visits upon Client request)

Job Type: W2 Contract (Long Term)

Experience Level: Senior (or) Lead required

Must Have:

Proven expertise in Architecture Assessment and Systems Analysis for complex enterprise environments.
Deep subject matter expertise in Enterprise Batch Management Solutions (specifically migrating legacy workloads into SMA OpCon).
Strong Windows Administration background with the ability to map and analyze file dependencies, SQL jobs, scripts, and access controls.

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly analytical and experienced Senior Workload Automation Analyst to lead the assessment, documentation, and migration planning of enterprise batch management systems for our financial services client.
In this critical role, you will conduct a deep-dive, current-state assessment of a legacy PRDCon environment and design a strategic, risk-mitigated migration path into SMA OpCon. You will act as the bridge between systems architecture and operational execution, ensuring that all job dependencies, file flows, and security models are
accurately mapped, documented, and successfully transitioned.

Key Responsibilities:

System Assessment & Inventory

Conduct a detailed current-state assessment of the legacy PRDCon environment, analyzing directory structures, file dependencies, inheritance, scheduling logic,
permissions, and access controls.
Assess the target OpCon environment, including schedules, calendars, job structures, security models, integrations, monitoring, and operational procedures.
Perform a comprehensive inventory of jobs, schedules, dependencies, scripts, executables, batch files, and SQL jobs across both PRDCon and OpCon.
Identify active PRDCon jobs, scripts, and file flows, while pinpointing unused, obsolete, or duplicate processes targeted for retirement.
Validate job volumes and processing scale, analyzing daily volumes, peak processing periods, and execution frequency.
Evaluate complex calendaring requirements, including market calendars, holidays, business rules, and exception processing.

Architecture, Security, & Documentation

Create detailed systems and interaction diagrams illustrating end-to-end processing flows, including key interfaces to business applications and databases.
Map file-based processing flows, triggers, dependencies, and handoffs across the environment.
Assess existing security and access rights, mapping PRDCon's permission model to OpCon's Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and security model.
Determine documentation and data retention requirements for deprecated jobs, logs, and processing artifacts.

Strategic Migration Planning & Risk Management

Develop a practical, phase-based migration and go-forward plan for moving required PRDCon workloads into OpCon.
Define migration sequencing, prioritization, validation testing, and rollback considerations.
Identify and document operational, technical, security, monitoring, logging, and resiliency risks.
Evaluate the impact of anticipated infrastructure, database, or platform changes on workload automation.
Support the client's strategic planning for the complete retirement of the PRDCon environment.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Systems Analysis & Architecture: Proven experience performing deep-dive architecture assessments and systems analysis on complex, enterprise-level environments.
Workload Automation Expertise: Deep subject matter expertise in Enterprise Batch Management Solutions (specifically SMA OpCon).
Windows Administration: Strong background in Windows server environments, including analyzing batch files, executables, and directory structures.
Migration Experience: Prior experience planning and executing the migration of legacy job schedulers to modern workload automation platforms.
Technical Mapping: Strong ability to trace and map SQL jobs, script dependencies, and file triggers.
Security Mapping: Experience translating legacy access rights into modern Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models.
Documentation: Excellent technical writing skills with the ability to create clear systems diagrams, process flows, and operational procedures.

Nice to Have:

Direct experience analyzing or working with PRDCon environments.
Background in the Financial Services/Wealth Management industry (familiarity with market calendars and trading holidays).

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