RQ09817 - 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 re-engineering 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 cost-benefit 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 non-functional 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 follow-up
  
• Experience developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis E
  
• xperience 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, problem-solving and decision-making 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 follow-up
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  

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, problem-solving and decision-making 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 
  

Resume Evaluation 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 life-cycle (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 
  
  

Knowledge Transfer: 

What needs to be KT: 

• All documentation relating to the application /functional and technical specifications for systems development. Which include: design, components, process flows, other documentation that was developed/ updated 
  

To whom: 

When: 

• Knowledge Transfer to occur throughout the project life cycle. 
  
• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation on SharePoint site 
  

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