Business Analyst III

Kentro is hiring a Business Analyst III to support the Federal Aviation Administration’s Accelerated Transformation of Legacy Applications and Systems program. The role focuses on analyzing business, mission, technology, and operational requirements; supporting portfolio modernization and optimization; and developing inventories, metrics, dashboards, governance artifacts, and executive decision-support materials.

Responsibilities:

• Support FAA portfolio rationalization efforts, including discovery, inventory, categorization, and analysis of applications, systems, services, and supporting technologies
• Gather and analyze business, mission, operational, technical, security, and compliance requirements from stakeholders and system owners; document source, ownership, confidence, assumptions, and unresolved gaps for material requirements
• Develop and maintain traceable portfolio inventories, capability maps, application profiles, dependency maps, and other analytical artifacts with source provenance and decision linkage
• Identify and validate opportunities for consolidation, integration, modernization, migration, replacement, or retirement
• Analyze relationships and dependencies between business capabilities, applications, infrastructure, data, and enterprise services
• Develop business cases and decision-support materials that quantify mission impact, cost, risk, dependencies, and expected modernization outcomes
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, process models, and acceptance criteria where appropriate
• Support development of current-state and future-state architectures in collaboration with enterprise and solution architects
• Analyze business processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, standardization, and service delivery
• Establish governed metrics and dashboards to track portfolio health, rationalization progress, investment decisions, and modernization outcomes using reconciled source data, documented definitions, and repeatable calculation logic
• Prepare executive-level briefings, presentations, reports, and recommendations for FAA and program leadership
• Support ongoing governance processes and maintain traceability from business and mission objectives through requirements, capabilities, system disposition decisions, and acceptance criteria

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• 5-7 years of experience with IT portfolio management, application rationalization, enterprise architecture, or technology modernization
• Strong requirements analysis, process modeling, data analysis, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to interrogate and reconcile structured datasets using SQL or equivalent analysis tools
• Experience working across business and technical organizations
• Ability to translate complex technical information into clear business and executive-level recommendations
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently while coordinating across multiple stakeholder groups
• Proficiency in the use of AI tools for analysis
• US Citizen
• Experience with FAA, federal IT, or other federal governance processes is highly desirable
• Experience as a Business Analyst supporting complex government, aviation, transportation, or enterprise IT environments
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and tools is desirable
• Existing FAA suitability determination or transferable federal background investigation strongly preferred