Position: Business Analyst
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11610
Duration: 6 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to provide comprehensive business analysis services supporting complex business and technology initiatives. The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders, subject matter experts, project teams, and technology resources to gather, document, analyze, and validate business requirements while ensuring alignment with organizational standards, methodologies, and strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Requirements Management
- Lead
and conduct business analysis activities to assess business problems,
opportunities, and requirements.
- Facilitate
workshops to elicit, review, document, and validate business requirements.
- Develop
and maintain business requirements documentation, business rules, user
stories, use cases, and process models.
- Create
context diagrams, systems diagrams, stakeholder maps, and process maps.
- Conduct
business process reengineering and identify opportunities for service
improvement and optimization.
- Develop
performance measures and traceability matrices to evaluate business
analysis outcomes.
- Support
business transformation initiatives through analysis and continuous
refinement of requirements.
Project Delivery & Solution Development
- Participate
in all phases of the project lifecycle, from initial requirements through
implementation and production support.
- Prepare
business cases, cost-benefit analyses, feasibility studies, and options
analyses.
- Ensure
business requirements align with project management, architecture, and
systems development methodologies.
- Support
UX, functional, and technical design activities.
- Collaborate
with development teams to translate business requirements into practical
technology solutions.
- Participate
in request-for-proposal (RFP) processes, including requirements evaluation
and vendor assessments.
- Manage
problem identification and resolution activities to support successful
project outcomes.
Agile Delivery & Change Management
- Work
within Agile and Scrum environments, including sprint planning and
iterative delivery cycles.
- Break
down complex business requirements into manageable deliverables.
- Create
and manage user stories that support development activities.
- Conduct
change impact assessments and support organizational change management
initiatives.
- Develop
communication, training, and adoption strategies to support end-user
transitions.
Quality Assurance & Governance
- Support
quality assurance activities, including User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Validate
that business requirements are accurately implemented within delivered
solutions.
- Ensure
compliance with organizational policies, standards, and governance
requirements.
- Monitor
project progress and provide regular reporting to stakeholders and
leadership teams.
Required Skills & Experience
Business Analysis and Technical Skills
- Extensive
experience leading business analysis activities on medium to large-sized
projects.
- Strong
understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum delivery frameworks.
- Experience
creating user stories, use cases, business process models, and
requirements documentation.
- Experience
developing business cases, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses, and
ROI assessments.
- Experience
with business architecture concepts and enterprise technology
environments.
- Proficiency
with business analysis and project management tools such as:
- MS
Visio
- Figma
- Requirements
and modeling tools
- Experience
creating:
- Context
diagrams
- Systems
diagrams
- Stakeholder
maps
- Process
maps
- Use
case models
- Experience
supporting production environments and configuration management
activities.
- Familiarity
with quality assurance methodologies and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Knowledge
of information management principles, methodologies, and practices.
- Understanding
of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards and
requirements.
Professional Experience
- Experience
conducting business analysis reviews and recommending business and
technical solutions.
- Experience
with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
- Knowledge
of database concepts, systems integration, change management, risk
management, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
- Experience
identifying, assessing, and mitigating project risks.
- Experience
with stakeholder engagement, presentations, documentation, and briefing
materials.
- Ability
to align technology recommendations with enterprise standards and
strategic objectives.
- Experience
supporting user adoption initiatives through training and communication
strategies.
- Familiarity
with user-centered design principles and digital experience
considerations.
Communication & Interpersonal Skills
- Excellent
verbal and written communication skills.
- Exceptional
analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Ability
to prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation.
- Strong
stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
- Ability
to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical
audiences.
- Strong
customer service orientation.
- Proven
collaboration skills within cross-functional teams.
- Ability
to manage competing priorities and deliver within established timelines.
Work Arrangement
About Symbiotic Digital.
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.)
We serve customers in two ways, we provide:
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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.
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