Senior Workload Automation Analyst - Only W2

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).