Job Title: Apptad Business Analyst Senior
Job Location: Toronto (Hybrid)
Job Duration: LongTerm Contract
One of our Government clients is looking for a Senior Business Analyst.
Job Description
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 clients 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
Must Haves:
Experience with Azure cloud technologies.
Figma HTML CSS
Creating detailed business analysis documents user stories business case
Demonstrated experience facilitating JAD session
8 years experience in business analysis
Nice to have:
Experience with user centric website/forms design
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Must Haves:
- 8 years experience in business analysis
- Demonstrated experience facilitating JAD session
- Demonstrated experience in unit testing and system testing
Knowledge and Skills:
- Creating detailed business analysis documents user stories business case
- Knowledge of native capabilities of the system that needs to provide the functionality of courts case management
- Business Analysis experience at the specified level in large IT organizations preferably within an OPS environment
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
- Proficiency with Microsoft suite including Word Excel Visio and PowerPoint
- Experience with OPS I&IT Processes Standards and artifacts
- Outlining problems opportunities and solutions for a business
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Hands on experience in various project and product delivery methodologies such as:
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Iterative Agile
- Product management
Selection Criteria Criteria 1: Business Analyst Skills 40 Points
- Oral and written communication skills Interpersonal and consultative skills Facilitation skills
- Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Demonstrable knowledge of applying formal system development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies waterfall and iterative (agile)
- Contribute to technical policies plans procedures standards guidelines tools techniques documentation and performance criteria for the Integration Framework
Criteria 2: Technical Skills 30 Points
- Programming languages Common operating systems Software proficiency
- Participate in governance working group meetings analysing recommending documenting and implementing architecture operational SDLC and information architecture best practices.
Criteria 3: Communications Skills 20 Points
- Demonstrated experience in negotiating with business stakeholders on functional design issues and detailed solution design sessions negotiating on issues for production
- Experience in documenting project status reports project tracking for resources finances progress issues and risks
Public Sector Experience 10 points
Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations namely