Senior Business Analyst
- Markham, ON, Canada
The hiring pay range is $63,000–$78,000 annually, based on experience. · Full-time
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- Pay
- The hiring pay range is $63,000–$78,000 annually, based on experience.
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- 4-6 years of experience in business analysis, process support, or project delivery support.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Job Summary
The Senior Business Analyst leads complex analysis work across enterprise initiatives with multiple business areas, systems, and delivery dependencies. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy, translating ambiguous business needs into clear, structured inputs that enable effective decision making and delivery. In addition to hands on analysis, the Senior Business Analyst provides guidance and quality oversight to other Business Analysts, as required.
Key Accountabilities
Business Analysis Leadership & Planning
- Lead end‑to‑end business analysis activities for initiatives with significant complexity, integration, or ambiguity.
- Define the analysis approach, level of detail, and sequencing required based on scope, risk, and delivery model.
- Identify dependencies, constraints, and cross‑initiative impacts early to inform planning and decision‑making.
- Proactively anticipate analysis risks and adapt methods to maintain progress and clarity.
- Elicit, analyze, and document complex business needs and translate them into clear, prioritized, and traceable requirements.
- Develop and maintain high‑quality artifacts such as current/future‑state models, business rules, decision frameworks, and functional requirements.
- Facilitate structured working sessions to explore options, validate assumptions, and resolve competing needs.
- Ensure requirements align with intended business outcomes and are feasible within policy, operational, and technology constraints.
- Work closely with Project Managers, Product Owners, SMEs, and delivery teams to ensure shared understanding of business intent.
- Support consistent interpretation of requirements across teams to reduce rework and execution risk.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex requirement issues or impact assessments that exceed team‑level resolution.
- Maintain alignment as priorities, scope, or delivery approaches evolve.
- Support solution validation through walkthroughs, reviews, and scenario‑based testing.
- Contribute to impact analysis, readiness planning, and transition considerations for new or changed processes and systems.
- Ensure analysis outputs remain current and aligned with approved changes throughout delivery.
- Provide guidance, feedback, and informal mentoring to Business Analysts on analysis techniques and deliverable quality, as required.
- Review BA outputs to ensure consistency with standards and expectations.
- Share lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of business analysis practices.
Preferred field of study: Bachelor’s degree in business, Health Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience
- 4-6 years of experience in business analysis, process support, or project delivery support.
- Progressive experience in business analysis supporting complex, cross functional initiatives, enterprise programs, or transformation efforts.
- Demonstrated experience leading analysis activities with minimal supervision.
Additional Skills / Core Capabilities
- Advanced experience eliciting and documenting complex business requirements
- Strong ability to analyze current state processes and support future state design across multiple business areas
- Proficiency translating business needs into structured artefacts (e.g., requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability documentation)
- Solid understanding of project and solution delivery lifecycles
- Ability to lead business analysis activities with minimal supervision
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage ambiguity and competing priorities in complex delivery environments
- Experience providing guidance or review support to other Business Analysts
- High attention to detail and commitment to documentation quality
- Competitive Total Rewards: So much more than a paycheque! Enjoy comprehensive benefits, pension, flexible pay options, car-loan support, housing solutions and exclusive staff perks.
- Flexibility & Belonging: Thrive with hybrid work, flexible scheduling and a supportive, inclusive culture that puts people first.
- Innovative: At SE, we are always looking for new, innovative ways to improve. You’ll be encouraged and supported to identify and make improvements to the way we do our work. As a social enterprise, we support research into Senior’s Health and Aging.
- Purpose & Impact: Join a national social enterprise where your voice matters. Every role helps advance health, spark innovation and strengthen communities across Canada.
- Growth That Meets Your Ambition: Access tuition support, training and meaningful career pathways across a growing, future-focused organization.
SE Health is a not-for-profit social enterprise advancing health with heart. With 115+ years of impact, we bring hope, happiness and exceptional care to people and communities across Canada. We lead with empathy, dignity and purpose while building a future where everyone can realize their full health and well-being potential. We’re also an inclusive, supportive workplace offering competitive compensation, strong benefits and real opportunities to grow. We’re All In Together.
Accessibility: If you require accommodations due to illness or disability, please contact Talent Acquisition at careers@sehc.com.
AI and compensation details: We use AI to take notes during our interview.All applications and interviews are reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team. This role is a new addition. The hiring pay range is $63,000–$78,000 annually, based on experience.
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Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end business analysis for complex enterprise initiatives, translating ambiguous needs into prioritized, traceable requirements and high-quality analysis artifacts. Align stakeholders and delivery teams, support solution validation and change readiness, and provide guidance and quality oversight to other Business Analysts.
Requirements
The role seeks 4–6 years of business analysis or related delivery-support experience, including progressive experience leading analysis for complex, cross-functional initiatives with minimal supervision. A bachelor’s degree in business, health administration, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline is preferred; PMI-PBA or an equivalent business analysis certification is an asset.
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- Requirements Documentation
- Process Analysis
- Future-State Design
- Stakeholder Facilitation
- Requirements Traceability
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Impact Analysis
- Scenario-Based Testing
- Change Readiness
- Project Delivery
- Risk Management
- Communication
- Business Analyst Mentoring
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Pension
- Flexible Pay Options
- Car-Loan Support
- Housing Solutions
- Staff Perks
- Hybrid Work
- Flexible Scheduling
- Tuition Support
- Training
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Healthcare
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
Keywords
- Business Analysis
- Enterprise Initiatives
- Cross-Functional Programs
- Requirements Elicitation
- Requirements Traceability
- Business Rules
- Current-State Models
- Future-State Models
- Functional Requirements
- Decision Frameworks
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Impact Analysis
- Scenario-Based Testing
- Change Readiness
- Solution Delivery Lifecycle
- Project Management
- Product Ownership
- Stakeholder Management
- Process Design
- PMI-PBA
- Health Care
- Social Enterprise
- Continuous Improvement