Business Analyst

Houston, TX 77058



Location: REMOTE from a U.S. based location



Job Description:

Anakim Consulting Inc. has an opening for a mid-level Business Analyst to support a cloud services environment. Qualified candidates will have experience in enterprise IT or cloud environments.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide mid-level support to the program office in identifying services, processes and cost for existing and future IT systems.


• Prepare and modify presentations, drawings, flow charts, diagrams, narrative documents and other data for projects/customer presentations and report in a variety of media.


• Maintain detailed knowledge of the required compliance documentation. Maintains and updates electronic files, record and data.


• Maintain databases current in support of project control and other applicable business activities.


• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, cloud engineering, operations, security, and governance teams.


• Maintain responsibility for translating mission, program, and customer needs into clear, actionable requirements; supporting cloud service planning and consolidation initiatives; and ensuring traceability across requirements, decisions, costs, and outcomes.


• Enable standardized cloud services, controlled change, and data-driven decision-making across the enterprise cloud environment.


• Elicit, analyze, and document business and technical requirements for cloud services, platforms, and initiatives.


• Support cloud consolidation, modernization, and optimization efforts by assessing current-state environments and defining future-state needs.


• Develop and maintain requirements artifacts including business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.


• Facilitate stakeholder engagement across programs, cloud engineering, security, finance (FinOps), and governance bodies.


• Support cloud finance office with customer communications and collections for cloud payments.


• Support Architecture Review Boards (ARB), Change Control Boards (CCB), and operational reviews with analysis, documentation, and decision traceability.


• Assist in defining service catalogs, intake processes, and standardized workflows for cloud services.


• Maintain traceability between requirements, architectural decisions, implementation tasks, and delivered outcomes.


• Support development of roadmaps, milestones, and metrics for cloud services initiatives.


• Contribute to continuous improvement of cloud governance, processes, and reporting.