Stage: Business Analyst

Note: 3 days onsite per week is required
Job Title: RQ06713 - Business Analyst - Senior
Client: Labour and Transportation Cluster - Ministry of Transportation
Business Days: 253.Security Level: No Clearance Required
Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
The Ministry is seeking the services of one (1) Business Analyst, Senior Level, to work as part of the Project Management & Program Delivery project team in collaboration with the core project team, solution delivery vendor(s) and other stakeholders as required.
~ Provide support during the design, implementation and testing phases of the project.

~ Report progress of assignment on a regular basis to Project Management, raise any issue and concerns and propose mitigation strategies.

~ Lead and/or participate in teams developing solutions within Ministry of Labor Immigration Training Skills Development

~ Conduct feasibility analysis, project scoping and provide project work estimates.

~ Conduct Joint Requirements Planning and Joint Application Design sessions.

~ Analyze and map processes / data for current state and future state.

~ Requirements development involving requirements elicitation, elaboration, analysis, specification and validation.

~ Review and feedback of technical design documents.

~ Conduct and/or participate in walkthroughs at each project milestone.

~ Knowledge transfer to TS and I&IT Cluster at all stages of the assignment.

~ Report status to, and follow overall direction from the Project Manager and/or Lead Business Analyst.

Business Cases and Request for Bids

~ Business requirements / rules

~ Business process models

~ Business / Data Glossary

~ Business and System use cases

~ Data requirements / models (conceptual / logical)

~ Test plan/strategies, test cases

~ Risks and Issues

~ Artefacts/documents required for enterprise architecture development from a business needs point-of-view (contextual and conceptual), as required for the Architecture Governance Point review process

~ Other artefacts as determined by the project

Support to Development and Test teams in following areas (but are not limited to):
· Building and testing support to development team
· Reviewing test strategy, test plan and cases
· Testing Applications
· Defining the integration test plan
· Defining the user acceptance test plan
· Document and manage risks and liaise with other project teams to coordinate project interdependencies.
· Documentation of all artefacts in a shared project library.
Knowledge with Solutions Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and structured methodologies including agile, waterfall and iterative

~ Demonstrable experience with Business Object Oriented Modeling, UML tools and techniques.

~ Work Experience in investigating, analyzing, estimating system applications in a large integrated mainframe and mid-tier environment

~ Proven experience with all stages of automated system implementation in complex mainframe, with online and batch transactions

~ Proven experience with sprint facilitation, interpretation of business needs to technical requirements, facilitation of project meetings for reviews

~ Demonstrable knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems; demonstrated experience working with legacy infrastructure hosting environments such as mainframe with complex applications; Experience with supporting legacy applications and transformation of legacy solutions using COTS products such as Oracle Siebel

~ Demonstrable knowledge and experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of Public Service Sector

~ Demonstrable knowledge of Project Management framework in the Public Sector and Architecture Checkpoint requirements

~ Experience in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates

~ Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation

~ Experience with documenting user stories, planning and managing product backlog, planning and managing sprints, and implementing in an iterative manner

~ Demonstrated experience in the facilitation of project meetings for reviews

~ Experience in reporting progress of assignment(s) on a regular basis to Project Management and raise any issues / concerns and propose mitigation strategies.

~ Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, vendor(s) and other stakeholders.

~ Strong leadership skills to provide advice and guidance on all aspects of user experience and design, assessing user characteristics, needs, goals, and opportunities.

~ Creative, innovative, and can think outside the box to visualize solutions that meet business needs.

~ Knowledge and experience with supporting Public Sector Digital First strategies; experience with working with Digital Service standards including formal submissions for assessments as per official digital standards established

~ Creative, analytical approach and strong understanding of interaction design principles, including ability and experience to deliver mock-ups using advanced tools

~ Thrive on feedback and comfortable transforming ideas generated through user research and analysis to create elegant, effective designs for diverse audiences.

~ Understand business metrics and able to translate business goals and objectives into digital experiences.

~ Knowledge to ensure compliance with requirements for accessibility and user centric design including Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and Simpler, Better, Faster Services Act

~ Technical Skills - 40%
Significant experience designing online user experiences for complex digital solutions.
Ability to deliver a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.
Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Balsamiq, InVision).
Basic Knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud platform
Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence, Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams
Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker
Experience in applying content layout and typography design principles and techniques for a mobile-first or responsive web design.
Knowledge and experience in current web usability and accessibility standards (e.g.Knowledge and experience in usability and user-experience principles, methodologies, and techniques, including interdependencies of user interface and navigation design, accessibility, information architecture, graphic design, and user-interface design.
Knowledge of Ontario digital government standards - refer to
Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, solution delivery vendor(s), and other stakeholders.
Strong leadership skills to provide advice and guidance on all aspects of user experience and design, assessing user characteristics, needs, goals, and opportunities.
Creative, analytical approach and strong understanding of interaction design principles.
Thrive on feedback and comfortable transforming ideas generated through user research and analysis to create elegant, effective designs for diverse audiences.
Understand business metrics and able to translate business goals and objectives into digital experiences.
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Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: Knowledge of Ontario digital government standards - refer to

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON