Senior Business Analyst-Agile Delivery
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Senior Business Analyst, Agile Delivery Specialist
Location: Ottawa, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 60 days plus one 1-year option period
Security Clearance: Reliability Status
Responsibilities
OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.
We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Location: Ottawa, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 60 days plus one 1-year option period
Security Clearance: Reliability Status
Responsibilities
- Support a centralized intake, triage, and delivery enablement function, enabling the rapid translation of validated requests into delivery-ready outputs.
- Evaluate incoming requests against defined criteria such as business impact, urgency, and feasibility, and recommend appropriate routing pathways.
- Develop clear problem definitions, user stories, and backlog items within Agile or hybrid delivery environments.
- Support backlog refinement, structuring, and prioritization activities.
- Establish acceptance criteria and definitions of “Done” to ensure delivery readiness.
- Collaborate with delivery teams during iterative development cycles and maintain continuous stakeholder engagement and validation.
- Translate business requirements into delivery-ready outputs aligned with operational needs while maintaining delivery speed and quality.
- Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements, producing SRS and/or FRD, workflows, and process maps.
- Assess current-state systems and processes, documenting technical debt, legacy functionality, and transition requirements.
- Define and document data, interface, and integration points, identifying dependencies and associated risks.
- Maintain traceability between requirements, business needs, and delivery artefacts to support governance and auditability.
- Deliver knowledge transfer sessions and documentation to sustain the delivery enablement function.
- One of the following certifications/designations: Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA), Certificate in Business Analysis Practice (BCS), or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
- 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst on enterprise-level business transformation.
- 5+ years of experience performing business process modelling for end-to-end workflows in enterprise environments, including documenting As-Is and To-Be processes, decision points, hand-offs, and business rules.
- 5+ years of experience defining or documenting data and information elements supporting business processes, including data inventories or data dictionaries.
- 5+ years of experience identifying and documenting system or process interfaces and integration dependencies.
- 5+ years of experience eliciting and documenting business, functional, and/or system requirements, including user stories and acceptance criteria.
- 5+ years of experience maintaining traceability between requirements and business artefacts.
- 5+ years of experience supporting or leading intake, triage, and feasibility assessment of business or system requests in enterprise environments.
- 3+ years of experience developing data-related business analysis artefacts, including data inventories, data dictionaries, and conceptual or logical data modelling.
- 3+ years of experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery environments supporting enterprise-level initiatives, including developing user stories, backlog refinement and prioritization, and defining acceptance criteria or Definition of Done.
- 5+ years of experience supporting or designing structured intake, triage, and demand management functions within enterprise environments.
- 1+ years of experience aligning business analysis activities with enterprise architecture, ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), or large-scale transformation initiatives.
- 5+ years of experience providing decision support while ensuring governance, validation, and traceability of analysis outputs.
OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.
We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Assess and route incoming business and system requests, then translate validated needs into delivery-ready requirements, user stories, backlog items, and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with Agile or hybrid delivery teams and stakeholders, document processes, data and integration dependencies, maintain traceability and governance, and provide knowledge transfer.
Requirements
Requires at least 10 years of enterprise business or systems analysis experience and one of the listed professional business analysis certifications. Candidates must also have substantial experience in process modeling, requirements documentation, intake and triage, data and integration analysis, traceability, and Agile or hybrid delivery.
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Agile Delivery
- Business Process Modeling
- Requirements Elicitation
- User Stories
- Backlog Refinement
- Backlog Prioritization
- Acceptance Criteria
- Intake and Triage
- Feasibility Assessment
- Data Dictionaries
- Data Modeling
- Systems Integration
- Requirements Traceability
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Enterprise Architecture
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- Consulting
- Data & Analytics
- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Government & Public Sector
Keywords
- Professional In Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
- Certification Of Capability In Business Analysis (CCBA)
- Certificate In Business Analysis Practice (BCS)
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
- Business Analysis
- Business Systems Analysis
- Agile
- Hybrid Delivery
- Enterprise Transformation
- Intake And Triage
- Demand Management
- Feasibility Assessment
- Business Process Modeling
- As-Is And To-Be Processes
- User Stories
- Backlog Refinement
- Acceptance Criteria
- Definition Of Done
- Business Requirements
- Functional Requirements
- Data Inventories
- Data Dictionaries
- Conceptual Data Modeling
- Logical Data Modeling
- Systems Integration
- Enterprise Architecture
- ERP
- SAP