RQ07597 – Business Analyst – Intermediate

Job Description

Business Analyst - Intermediate

• Pay Rate : (flexible)
• Location : 222 Jarvis St Toronto, ON
• Contract Length : 11 Months

Work Type : Hybrid

We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Ontario Public Sector Clients. If you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.

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.
• 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.
• Work closely with IT team on the development of functional requirements, including wireframes, Functionality Testing, Quality validation, Test Strategies.
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.

Qualifications : General Skills :

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
• Development and validation of Functional Requirements.
• Ability to validate data on database tables to validate collected data and ensure business rules are properly applied.
• Ability to perform QA testing to validate solution functionality against developed Functional Requirements.
• 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
• 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, 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
• 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.
• Knowledge of Service Design process.
• Wireframe Design experience
• 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
• Experience developing prototypes using Wireframes, using Figma or another similar tool
• 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 n o t 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
• 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, 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 develop SQL scripts to validate collected data.
• 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
• Expertise developing Business requirements / User Stories
• Experience developing Wireframes and process models
• Experience performing Quality Assurance
• Experience and Skill Set Requirements
• Experience and actual deliverables with a Service-Oriented design related projects
• Understanding of systems environments, business analysis and change management in projects or programs related to integrated multi-ministries’ government services
• Experience with Conceptual and Logical data modeling.
• Knowledge and experience in preparing detailed analysis and recommendations to ensure compliance with appropriate public sector, industry and international standards on security, privacy and accessibility
• Ability to assist with the security issues that could impact developed front-end and integrated systems
• Experience in producing business and technical documentation and agreements
• Checkpoints, TRA, PIA, Component architecture, Design patterns
• Thorough experience with Logical and Physical Architecture artifacts
• Knowledge of theory and principles of systems design and development, programming concepts and languages, and related methods, techniques, practices and standards
• In-depth knowledge of WCAG 2.0 Standards and AODA Compliancy levels
• Knowledge and experience creating Wireframes, Use Cases, User Stories

Must haves :

• 3+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
• Demonstrated experience with managing multi-year multi-million budget projects
• Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.
• Experience utilizing, managing and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile / Scrum and scalable minimum viable products.
• Experience with I&IT technology site deployment / rollout.
• PMP preferred
• Financial reporting on budget preferred
• Agile / Scrum experience is preferred

Note : Candidate needs to be in office- upto 3 days in a week