Technical Business Analyst - Legacy Modernisation | Contract

Job Scope: • Work as a Technical Business Analyst embedded within a legacy modernisation programme, supporting the transformation of COBOL-based systems into Java/AWS-based solutions. • Collaborate with senior consultants and engineering teams to analyse existing legacy system behaviour, including COBOL code logic, batch processes, and integration touchpoints. • Lead and contribute to requirement definition activities for legacy modernisation initiatives, translating both business needs and legacy system constraints into actionable requirements. • Act as a bridge between legacy/mainframe systems and modern cloud architectures, ensuring functional parity and alignment with business outcomes. • Support solution design by contributing to functional specifications, technical workflows, and design alignments, grounded in legacy system understanding. • Facilitate and drive workshops and walkthrough sessions with business stakeholders and technical teams to validate requirements, assumptions, and solution approaches. • Support solution validation activities by reviewing proposed technical designs against legacy constraints, operational rules, and business requirements. • Contribute to project documentation including requirement artefacts, design inputs, status updates, and client-facing materials. • Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent understanding of requirements across business, legacy SMEs, and delivery teams. Job Qualifications: • Degree in Computer Engineering / Information Technology or equivalent. • Experience in legacy modernisation initiatives, working closely with engineering teams to translate legacy systems into modern architectures. • Hands-on experience analysing COBOL-based legacy systems and translating business and technical logic into Java/AWS target architectures. • Ability to understand and walk through legacy code logic (COBOL) with engineering teams to derive functional and non-functional requirements. • Capability to bridge mainframe/legacy system behaviour with distributed cloud-based designs. • Experience leading requirement definition for legacy system modernisation projects, including current-state analysis and target-state definition. • Ability to comprehend technical requirements at code and design level, and support basic validation or debugging discussions where required. • Effective communicator and able to translate complex technical concepts into clear business terms for stakeholder and client discussions. • Proven experience conducting and driving client-facing workshops focused on requirements, solution walkthroughs, and design validation. • Excellent analytical skills with the ability to break down complex problems, synthesise inputs from multiple sources, and formulate clear solution responses. • Experience supporting solution validation by reviewing technical designs against legacy constraints and business requirements. • Ability to produce clear and concise functional and technical documentation, including requirement specifications, process flows, and solution design inputs. • Have working knowledge of SDLC, particularly in transformation and modernisation contexts. • Experience working collaboratively within cross-functional teams comprising business, legacy system SMEs, and modern application engineers. Interested candidates can click apply for more information. ** We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified. ** We respect your privacy and all communication will be treated with confidentiality.  If you wish to know more about this position or explore other roles, please prepare your updated profile and get in touch with our consultants. Please note that your response to this advertisement and communications with us pursuant to this advertisement will constitute informed consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure of personal data by Manpower for the purpose of carrying out its business, in compliance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.   Rallonza Bernice Mae Nocum | EA License No. 02C3423 Personnel | Registration No. R1442141