Business Analyst

**Job Title: IT Technical Business Analyst - Intermediate**

**Location: Edmonton Alberta T5J 3W7 (The resource will primarily work remotely)**

**Duration: 12-month contract + 12 possible extensions**

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Facilitate requirements gathering sessions and conduct process walkthroughs:

- Identify goals and pain points through gap analysis on current state and future state business processes.
- Create, review and update user stories, personas and journey maps, as applicable.
- Create system use cases, flow diagrams and interactive mock-ups outlining functional requirements, as required.
- Work with the technical team to design IT solutions that meet the business requirements and validate the proposed solutions through user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure they meet the predefined criteria.
- Support development of necessary system (non-technical) documentation as well as make recommendations for policy and/or procedural manuals.
- Support change management and training to ensure delivery of complex program changes.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of implemented services, conduct post implementation reviews, assess opportunities for backlog refinement and for continuous improvement.
- Liaise with security and privacy teams to complete security threat risk assessments and privacy impact assessments as required.
- Assist with project planning, scheduling and status reporting as required.

**To be successful in this role, the Contingent Resource should have**:

- Demonstrated experience providing business analysis/consulting services in a registries modernization project.
- Demonstrated experience conducting a gap analysis between legacy systems and modern solutions.
- an understanding of Agile framework (SCRUM) through demonstrated experience.
- Results driven mindset and able to function independently, while engaging with other stakeholders and team members as required to deliver outcomes.
- a thorough understanding and experience using an Agile/Hybrid approach. Experience with tools such as JIRA is preferred.

**Qualification/Must Have**:

- Experience as a business analyst translating business requirements into detailed technical requirements in an enterprise IT environment.
- Experience documenting user requirements, business processes, and workflows.
- Experience in facilitating and managing business process development and process re-engineering workshops and sessions.
- Experience with user acceptance testing includes creation of user acceptance plan, status reporting, and managing assigned tasks.
- Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in drafting strategic business and technical documentation.
- Experience working within an agile development environment.
- Experience working within a registries modernization project.

**Nice to Have**

**Education**

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field of study.

**Work Experience**
- Experience assisting in reviewing, evaluating and providing test input during business requirements gathering and detailed design specifications.
- Experience evaluating policies, programs, and initiatives using program development principles
- Experience exploring multiple design solutions to given problems or feature, and communicating those solutions visually through sketches, user flows, wireframes, functional prototypes, and/or high-fidelity designs, as necessary.
- Experience in analyzing process maps, descriptions, and data flow diagrams of complex business processes to understand records that are produced
- Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across ministries or departments.
- Experience in the design, development and implementation of complex IT solutions.
- Experience in the development of project documents for a wide variety of initiatives and projects (strategic, business improvement, information technology, etc.).

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $50.14-$70.34 per hour

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience providing business analysis services in a registries modernization project?