IT Business Analyst Contractor (Hybrid)

About the role

Contractor location specific: required hybrid attendance 3x a week from client office in Dallas/Irving, TX or Jacksonville, FL.

Responsibilities

• As an IT Business Analyst Contractor, you will bridge business stakeholders and the delivery team during the migration off legacy ETL platforms (Ab Initio, Informatica) onto the target data architecture.
• The BA contractor will work on requirements capture, current-state mapping, and traceability from legacy job logic through to target-state design, and is a primary interface for UAT and release sign-off.
• Elicit and document business and functional requirements for data pipeline migration and modernization workstreams, working directly with business sponsors and source-system owners.
• Reverse-engineer and document existing Ab Initio / Informatica job logic, mappings, and business rules as the basis for target-state requirements.
• Translate legacy ETL transformation logic into clear, testable functional specifications for the engineering and architecture teams.
• Build and maintain requirements traceability matrices linking legacy logic, target design, and test cases.
• Facilitate requirements walkthroughs, scenario workshops, and sign-off sessions with Business Analysts, Business Sponsors, and Testing teams.
• Support End-to-End (ETE) testing scoping, working with the Test Architect to confirm ETE scenarios and readiness ahead of UAT.
• Maintain the Project Scope and Feature documentation (PTS / Confluence) and keep it aligned with evolving requirements.
• Assist in production readiness and defect triage by clarifying intended business behavior against JIRA-tracked defects.
• Support change impact analysis when release scope or timelines shift.

Requirements

• 7+ years as a Business Analyst on data-intensive or platform-migration programs.
• Experience writing functional specifications and traceability documentation for data transformation logic.
• Comfortable working with JIRA, Confluence, and Zephyr (or equivalent test management tooling).
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills; able to run workshops with both business and technical audiences.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Qualifications

• Working familiarity with ETL/ELT concepts; direct exposure to Ab Initio, Informatica, or similar legacy ETL tooling strongly preferred.

Pay

The expected pay range for this contract assignment is $60-$65 per hour. The exact pay rate will vary based on skills, experience, and location and will be determined by the third-party whose employees provide services to Deloitte.

Requisition code: 369808