Sr. Business Analyst

7-month contract (150 business days) - possible extension ONSITE 5 days 777 Bay St.

Must Have:

• Experience to feed work to the team and dedicated to looking ahead at upcoming work and grooming requirements so that they're well-understood, documented, and ready to go
• Experience with Agile project methodology
• Experience assembling requirements into coherent user stories
• Experience in managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead
• Requirements documentation experience in the format of concise and clear user stories
• Knowledge of design, develop, test and implement systems solutions, and evaluate software/hardware
• Proficiency in SQL database querying
• Knowledge in API design, integration and technical requirement definition
• Hands-on experience with creating and managing user stories using Azure DevOps
• Establish effective working relationships with I&IT management, clients, internal and external partners/stakeholders and project staff
• Communication skills to discuss client requirements; to discuss systems development options and technical processes among project team

Nice-to-have:

• Experience within the public sector, particularly with education systems

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 developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis.
• Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope.
• 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.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions.
• Experience with a wide range of methods, tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping.
• Experience in structured, object-oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements.
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up.
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day) $84.19/hr - $101.03/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day) $67.35/hr - $80.82/hr T4