IT Technical Business Analyst - Senior

Project Name:
3Year Strategic Roadmaps

Scope:
Technology and Innovation requires Information Technology (IT) professional resource to provide a Senior Business Analyst to support the delivery of 3Year Strategic Roadmaps and associated business cases for each Government of Alberta (GoA) department that will identify what is required to modernize GoA service delivery.

Project:
Work on a team to develop strategic roadmaps business cases opportunity cards and new opportunity intakes for each department within the GoA. Work would include the following:
Identify and review strategic opportunities for placement on the 3year strategic roadmap.
Work with strategic roadmap team and stakeholders to develop 3year strategic roadmap.
Work with strategic roadmap team and stakeholders to develop opportunity cards.
Work with strategic roadmap team and stakeholders to develop business cases.
Work with strategic roadmap team and stakeholders to develop opportunity intakes.
Work with strategic roadmap team and stakeholders to develop Treasury Board and Finance submissions.
Work closely with strategic roadmap team and stakeholders to coordinate workshops and develop required documentation.
Leverage scrum and other agile approaches to facilitate crossteam delivery.
Facilitate and/or participate in workshops and roadmap sessions.
Support the strategic roadmap lead.

Duties:
The deliverables/artefacts to be produced include but are not limited to the following list.
Lead and/or participate in consultations and facilitate stakeholder meetings.
Create business requirements opportunity cards business cases and other functional or technical specification documents.
Assist in identifying new IT services.
Schedule organize and lead status meetings and other meetings as required.
Provide support by bridging communication between vendors client ministries and corporate technical and business teams.
Escalate unresolved issues/risks options and recommendations.
Responsible for development of key strategic roadmap documents.
Prepare update and manage documents defining the business requirements and opportunities.
Prepare regular project status reports indicating project deliverables possible risk/issues timelines and anticipated effort.
Ensure appropriate project communication occurs to all parties involved during all phases of the project.
Identify required user training.
Additional responsibilities as required by the Project Manager for a Business Analyst or Lead Technical Analyst role.
Support development of project deliverables including requirements gathering and documentation to meet project milestones. Support project management status and financial reports and schedules as required.

Equipment Requirements:
It is preferred if the resource has their own equipment though GoA will provide laptop/desktop if necessary.

Working Hours:
Standard Hours of work are 08:15 16:30 Alberta time Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the Province.
Work must be done from within Alberta due to network and data security issues.
It is anticipated the role will be 100% remote however in the event of an onsite meeting the GoA does not pay for travel to attend onsite meetings nor any expenses related to relocation commuting housing/accommodation or food/drink.

Notes on Location:
Resource will work remotely though must be available for onsite meetings when required.

Onsite meetings include but are not limited to strategic architectural and technical discussions meeting with team members senior managers directors executive directors and business clients. Frequency of meetings could be up to 12 times per month.

Background Check Required:
The Supplier shall prior to commencement of the services provide the Province on its request and at no cost to the Province with criminal record checks.

Mandatory Training Courses:
Once hired the resource will be required to complete all mandatory training which includes but not limited to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Security awareness training. There may also be some optional courses as well.

Anticipated Interviews Dates
Will be held between Oct 1418
Refer to the Job Posting attachments for the proposed form of contract applicable to this Contingent Resource Request

Scoring Methodology:
Financial/Pricing: 20%
Resource Qualifications: 20%
Interview Process: 60%

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RESOURCE REFERENCES
o Three references for whom similar work has been performed must be provided. The most recent reference should be listed first. Reference checks may or may not be completed to assist with scoring of the proposed resource.

Yes/No (BA)The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following...

Duration Experience as a business analyst translating business requirements into detailed...

8 years

Duration Experience in developing integrated system and technical design specifications on...

3 years

Duration Experience in facilitating and managing business process development and process...

5 years

Duration Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across...

5 years

Duration Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in...

5 years

Duration Experience in facilitating meetings and communicating with senior management and...

5 years

Duration Experience in the design development and implementation of complex IT solutions.

5 years

Duration Experience in the development of project documents for a wide variety of initiatives...

5 years

Duration Experience with development and implementation of content management document...

5 years

Duration Experience with IT service management IT service management applications IT...

4 years

Duration Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large complex...

4 years

Duration Experience working in or for the public sector.

2 years

Duration Experience working within an agile development environment.

4 years