Senior Business Analyst – Toronto

Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster

Location: Toronto ON, Onsite 5 days a week

Pay Rate: 90-95 /hr incorp

Description Responsibilities

• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.

General Skills

• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client's business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
• Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches.
• Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
• Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects.
• Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders.
• Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Experience developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis.
• Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement.
• Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Must Have:

• Experience working with vendor-based solutions, including collaborating with vendors to define requirements, assess solution fit, and support implementation.
• Experience collaborating with policy teams to assess emerging legislative, regulatory, and policy changes and translate them into business and solution requirements.
• Experience leading business analysis for large, complex digital or I&IT initiatives.
• Experience eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business, functional, non-functional, data, and reporting requirements.
• Experience developing business-process models, use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, data requirements, and traceability matrices.
• Experience facilitating requirements workshops with business, policy, operational, legal, privacy, security, and technology stakeholders.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout design, development, testing, and implementation.
• Prior OPS/public sector experience.