Senior Business Analyst
Location: Ontario
Job Type: Contract
Hourly Rate: $55 - $60 Inc
Contract Duration: 254 + 95 Days
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Experience Requirement: 10+ years
Must Haves
- Strong Agile and Waterfall experience.
- Experience developing functional and non-functional requirements, leading and facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, business process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design, in order to create the technical framework/specifications for development of the business solution and/or infrastructure services or platforms.
- Experience with MS Office - PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Azure DevOps / Jira.
- Experience with Enterprise Transformation / Modernization / service delivery-related projects.
- Experience/familiarity with forecasting/budgeting-related documents.
- Able to interpret data, policy, and financial information to support evidence-based recommendations.
- Act as a liaison between technical team and non-technical team.
Description
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.
Responsibilities - Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts aligning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.
- Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts 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.
- Fosters effective communication between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of goals and requirements.
- Manage / groom product backlog based on user needs / prioritization input.
- Single point of contact for business analysis, agile leadership, and team coordination minimizing communication gaps, reducing the risk of misinterpretation, and promote more effective project outcomes.
- Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines.
- Lead presentations / demonstrations of solution design and build for consultation group and stakeholders.
- Create & review the user flows and user stories, and ensure they meet the overall product vision and consistency across features.
- Support QA, UAT, Architecture, and Technical activities to facilitate quality and enterprise standards are met.
- Support agile practices and encourage the improvement of service.
- Identify gaps and improvements for enhance process flows/customer experience journeys.
- Responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle working closely with product owner, including:
- Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements.
- Defining the product vision.
- Ensuring that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.
- Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes.
- Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to management and stakeholders.
- Conduct discovery, cost benefit analysis and prototyping.
- Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact.
- Work closely with business and IT teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources.
- Identifies dependencies with other teams and determines how to manage those dependencies without impacting the progress of the team.
General Skills
- Knowledge and experience with Agile Information and Information Technology (I&IT) methods and techniques associated with the development and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated commitment and proven ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships and navigate through organizational approvals.
- Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others.
- Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution.
- Experience leading the Agile methodology and development teams in self-organization and identifying and filling in blanks in the framework.
- Experience mentoring and coaching the teams on removing impediments.
- Experience capturing feedback and documenting sprint reviews to administer project goals and improve team performance.
- Leads and conducts business analysis to assess client's business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
- Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
- Experience leading requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations, and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement.
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience.
Required Skills
- Project Methodology certifications such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma Black/Green/Yellow Belt, etc.
- Knowledge of Ontario Public Service decision-making and project implementation processes is considered an asset.
Business Analysis and Technical Skills
- Experience leading and conducting business analysis for business projects to assess clients' business problems or opportunities, document the technical business requirements to meet the functional requirements.
- Experience developing context diagrams, use cases and use case models.
- Experience developing business service blueprints, user stories, technical & business process flows, process maps, data flow diagrams and customer journey maps.
- Experience creating systems diagrams.
- Experience writing business cases and conducting options analysis.
- Experience developing cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
- Experience developing functional and non-functional requirements.
- Experience developing performance measures for projects and lines of business.
- Hands-on experience developing effective use cases and user stories.
Experience
- Experience on large and medium-sized projects as a business analyst or functional consultant.
- Experience with Enterprise business architectural concepts in order to ensure that recommended technologies are consistent with OPS standards.
- Experience developing business cases from start to finish.
- Experience with the software development life cycle, software design, development and integration, database concepts, user interface design principle, change management, quality assurance, risk management, disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning to develop solutions and/or infrastructure services to satisfy business needs.
- Experience conducting business analysis reviews, recommending options & changes and contingency provisions.
- Experience providing technical leadership, functional business analysis and architecture expertise to project staff, colleagues and clients.
- Service delivery management, portfolio, program/project management and resource management to manage the business analysis to clients and provide recommendations on clients' I&IT business and infrastructure needs.
- All aspects of business analysis including enterprise level and client program area business analysis and modeling expertise; related business analysis tools, technology, processes, and methodologies; business analysis-related technical and business planning.
- I&IT Cluster and corporate policies, directives, guidelines and procedures related to service delivery processes, enterprise business architecture, current trends and technologies relate to business driven IT solutions to provide practical expertise to meet business needs, ensure traceability of business requirements to I&IT solutions and ensure compliance with OPS I&IT policies and standards.
- Clients' policies and programs, business goals and objectives, plans, issues and resources and linkage to understand business needs, identify partnership opportunities and match technology solutions to business requirements and provide advice on application of I&IT.
- Enterprise business architectural concepts in order to ensure that recommended technologies are consistent with OPS standards.
Analyzing and Problem-Solving Skills
- Assess clients' business requirements, identify best technology solutions from among alternatives to ensure clients' expectations are satisfied in the cost-effective manner, both for individual issues and longer-term overall requirements.
- Evaluate directions, trends, standards and policies in a complex and evolving environment using multiple sources of guidance; identify requirements, develop options and make recommendations on general and specific information architecture and data management issues.
- Planning, coordinating and leading all phases of assigned business analysis, process improvements, architecture or infrastructure projects or services within risk, time and resource constraints to meet client needs.
- Ensuring the quality of business solution recommendations and implementation and ensuring integration with enterprise and cluster standards and directions.
- Conducting business analysis reviews, recommending options & changes and contingency provisions.
- Provides technical leadership, functional business analysis and architecture expertise to project staff, colleagues and clients.
Communication Skills
- Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to reports, reviews, assessments.
- Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively and in a user-friendly manner; maintain a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients.
- Ability to communicate designs and development in clear and understandable manner.
