Senior Business Analyst in Toronto

About the job RQ09016 - Business Analyst - Senior

A Note on Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "Onsite"; however, the Assignment under this request will provisionally be "Hybrid", working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment, you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Manager's requirements for the Project you are assigned to.

Scope

• 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.
• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess clients' business problems/opportunities and document 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

• 8+ years experience in business analysis.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating JAD sessions.
• BABOK (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) certification and/or demonstrated knowledge with the key BABOK concepts, tasks, techniques and skills.
• Demonstrated experience in creating Business Cases, Business Requirements Document, other Business requirements artefacts and testing documentation.
• Demonstrated experience in data migration, including mapping between source and target systems, analysis of data fields required to migrate data, exchange data or to provide a data feed between internal systems and third-party applications.
• Demonstrated experience in producing quality analysis of data sets and outputs such as detailed data maps, data dictionary, business rules, mapping rules, functional specifications, interface specifications, use cases, test cases etc.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Creating detailed business analysis documents, user stories, business case.
• Knowledge of native capabilities of the system that needs to provide the functionality of courts case management.
• Business Analysis experience at the specified level in large IT organizations, preferably within an OPS environment.
• Hands-on experience in various project and product delivery methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, Iterative Agile, Product management.

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

• Criteria 1: Business Analyst Skills - 30 Points
• 8+ years experience in business analysis.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating JAD sessions.
• BABOK certification and/or demonstrated knowledge with the key BABOK concepts, tasks, techniques and skills.
• Demonstrated experience in creating Business Cases, Business Requirements Document, other Business requirements artefacts and testing documentation.
• Demonstrated experience working on large systems implementation.
• Working knowledge of system concepts and development methodologies to support business applications.
• Demonstrated experience in project co-ordination and project management activities.

• Criteria 2: Architecture Knowledge / Experience - 35 Points
• Demonstrated experience in data migration, including mapping between source and target systems, analysis of data fields required to migrate data, exchange data or to provide a data feed between internal systems and third-party applications.
• Demonstrated experience in producing quality analysis of data sets and outputs such as detailed data maps, data dictionary, business rules, mapping rules, functional specifications, interface specifications, use cases, test cases etc.
• Demonstrated experience in developing documentation towards production readiness such as support model, SLAs and checklists.
• Demonstrated experience in system and user acceptance testing.
• Demonstrated experience in solution design and architecture.
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end handling project financials and resource management.
• Demonstrated experience in defect identification and documentation using defect management tools.
• Demonstrated experience with technical solution design and prototyping tools to facilitate JAD and design sessions.
• Hands-on experience in various project and product delivery methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, Iterative Agile, Product management.

• Criteria 3: Communication - 30 Points
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating with business stakeholders on functional design issues and detailed solution design sessions, negotiating on issues for production.
• Experience in documenting project status reports, project tracking for resources, finances, progress, issues and risks.

• Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience - 5 Points
• Demonstrated experience working within an organization of equivalent size and complexity to the Ontario Public Service.
• Experience in working with Architectural artifacts within the OPS would be an asset.

Knowledge Transfer

What needs to be KT: All documentation relating to the application /functional and technical specifications for systems development. Which include: design, components, process flows, other documentation that was developed/ updated.

To whom: Knowledge Transfer to occur throughout the project life cycle.