RQ08996 - Business Analyst - Senior
On-siteToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Conduct modernization of the Social Assistance reporting platform by reviewing existing data models and redesigning them for scalability. Collaborate with the Product Owner to prioritize backlogs, participate in sprint planning, and facilitate requirement elicitation sessions with stakeholders. Write and refine user stories in Azure DevOps, maintain documentation, and provide regular progress reports. Evaluate alternative solutions, assess cost-benefit options, and translate technical terminology into business terms. Work alongside the development team to ensure delivered solutions meet program and Ministry needs. This hybrid role requires three days per week at the office (315 Front Street West, 3rd Floor). The position supports an agile product team focused on analytical and operational reporting capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Business Analysis and Problem-Solving Skills
- Requirement elicitation
- Documentation
- Gap analysis
- Evaluation of alternative solutions
- User interaction/experience design (UI/UX)
- Making recommendations
- Facilitating sessions with a diverse audience for requirements discovery and analysis
- Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid methodologies
- Work with stakeholders (internal and external) across the program to develop clearly defined epics and user stories
- Writing user stories in Azure DevOps
- Gathering information on client problems, services and business goals/objectives
- Helping program understand their needs and translate to design models and concepts
- Evaluating requirements and reviewing options for solution
- Assessing cost/benefit of options
- Evaluating alternative conceptual systems designs
- Evaluating potential impact of proposed system changes on existing service delivery
- Recommending approaches and discussing with team and stakeholders
- Translating from technical terminology to business terms
- Led/managed business transformation/solution design initiatives
- Focus on business architecture and user interaction/experience design (UI/UX)
- Conceptual design of enterprise data warehouses
- Extensive experience in data management supporting development teams
- Working on requirements gathering and design documentation
- Understanding data warehouse modeling concepts and design principles
- Kimball and Inmon
- Advanced technical knowledge of large hardware and software operations and utilities
- Productivity tools
- Online processing systems
- Web-based technologies
- Database management systems
- Knowledge of enterprise architectural concepts and processes
- Business architecture for data warehouses, marts, lakes
- Azure platform
- Knowledge of front end, web-based technologies and data-mining/reporting-based COTS tools
- IBM CURAM
- Feasibility studies
- Requirements definition
- Analysis
- Prototyping
- System design
- Implementation
- Testing
- Maintenance
- Source to target mapping
- Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies
- ITIL Processes for Change/Release Management
- Relational data base technologies
- Information retrieval packages using SQL and other query languages
- Emerging IT trends and technologies
- Cloud computing
- Enterprise data warehousing
- Accessibility compliance requirements
- AODA
- WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA
- Planning, developing, managing, controlling projects
- Resolving complex technical design problems
- Project management
- Task estimation
- Scheduling
- Control
- Development of documentation and materials
- Review and knowledge transfer to other members
- Specific activities as part of a review
- Hand over to ministry staff
- Building block approach
- Knowledge transfer
- Skills development
- Gathering information
- Clarifying needs and desired system changes
- Explaining system development recommendations
- Providing instruction on new/modified systems and technology
- Preparing business cases
- Systems documentation
- User manuals
- Guidelines
- Clarifying and discussing systems development options with clients
- 3 days per week office presence at 315 Front Street West, 3rd Floor
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of front end, web-based technologies and data-mining/reporting-based COTS tools (e.g., IBM CURAM) encompassing feasibility studies, requirements definition, analysis, prototyping, system design, implementation, testing and maintenance
- Nice to have
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