RQ06590 - Business Analyst - Senior

Responsibilities:

• 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.
  

General Skills:

• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client s business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
  
• Applies reengineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
  
• Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies
  
• Develops strategies prepares business cases and costbenefit analysis and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
  
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions interviews mockups etc.
  
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and nonfunctional requirements definitions for assigned projects
  
• Monitors progress resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders
  
• Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts followup
  
• Experience developing strategies preparing business cases and costbenefit analysis
  
• Experience conducting requirements gathering developing documentation including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
  
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
  
• Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies
  
• Excellent analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
  
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
  
• Experience with a wide range of methods tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling business event modelling business process mapping
  
• Experience in structured object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
  
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent followup
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Experience with Agile project methodology leveraging Jira and/or DevOps
  
• Experience transposing requirements into coherent user stories
  
• Strong communications consultations and interpersonal skills to determine client needs
  
• Experience working with the business users IT development teams and external vendors
  
• Strong business relationship skills
  

Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

• Knowledge of cybersecurity related practices including safeguards. Experience will be ideal
  
• Lead and conduct business analysis in order to assess client s business problems/opportunities
  
• Experience with Agile project methodology
  
• Experience grooming and assembling requirements into coherent user stories and use cases and managing the Product Backlog Items refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead
  
• Lead and conduct business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the
  
• project aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process and OPS Standard
  
• Meet with the Product Owner and endusers to understand the team s work
  
• Act as a proxy Product Owner for the team where the BA answers questions or facilitates decisions on behalf of an absent Product Owner
  
• Develop strategies prepare business cases and costbenefit analysis and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
  
• Develop sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions interviews mockups etc.
  
• Conduct business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and nonfunctional requirements definitions
  
• Monitor progress resolve problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders
  
• Develop performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis
  
• Apply reengineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
  
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
  
• Knowledge of project management and indepth knowledge of task estimation scheduling and control
  
• Can help plan develop manage control projects and resolve complex technical design problems
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Technical Knowledge and Expertise:

• Working knowledge of business system technologies to provide technical expertise and advice
  
• Experience with design develop test and implement systems solutions and evaluate software/ hardware
  
• Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies and Agile project methodology
  
• Experience with advanced application prototyping
  
• Experience in the analysis and design of Microsoft Azure Cloud Based Applications and advanced workflows using Microsoft Flow & Logic Apps
  
• Knowledge in Microsoft Power Platform App
  
• Experience with creating and managing user stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps and/or Jira
  
• knowledge of design methodologies in Internetbased and/or distributed environments
  
• Familiarity with ITIL Processes for Change/Release relational and hierarchical data base technologies use of information retrieval packages using SQL and other query
  
• knowledge of front end webbased technologies and datamining/reportingbased COTS tools encompassing feasibility studies requirements definition analysis prototyping system design implementation testing and maintenance
  
• Advanced technical knowledge of large hardware and software operations and utilities productivity tools client server architecture online processing systems webbased technologies Commercial offtheshelf (COTS) and database management systems
  
• Ability to perform/complete business/systems analysis consultation information management design development testing including completion of implementation and installation related tasks
  
• Ability to translate client business requirements into functional and information documentation
  
• experience in creating business process models user stories information models and requirements.
  
• Knowledge of IT governance processes (IT Project and Enterprise Architecture related).
  
• Knowledge of rulesbased engines based in COTS applications
  
• Knowledge of emerging IT trends and technologies
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards