Senior Technical Business Systems Analyst – API & Application Delivery - 9940

Senior Technical Business Systems Analyst – API & Application Delivery -

Duration: 5 Months (Extensions Likely)

Location: Toronto, London or Winnipeg (Hybrid, 3x/week)

Overview:

Discover/Scoping

• Working with the portfolio team and business partners, use intake, triage, and formalized discovery processes to define the problem/opportunity and expected business benefits for each target stakeholder group.
• Working with the portfolio architect and business partners, gather and define enough high-level requirements to develop a high level system impact assessment, scoped solution, and business case.
• Lead and orchestrate the overall analysis, scoping, estimating, and planning for large or complex initiatives
• Lead the elicitation and validation of business requirements affecting multiple products using various methods, techniques, and tools

Planning

• Define detailed business requirements using waterfall or agile requirement gathering methodologies, functional and non-functional specifications for each work package to be assigned to dev/ops squads for detailed design, build and execution.
• Help facilitate the assignment of work packages to dev/ops squads for prioritization and execution

Execution & Operationalization

• Provide portfolio level support to squad BSAs, Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts during the detailed, design and build delivery phases.
• Help facilitate the analysis between dev/ops squads if business scope, requirements and/or the solution evolves during the delivery lifecycle.
• Work with dev/ops squad BSAs and quality assurance team members to ensure adequate testing and validate that the system meets business needs/expectations.
• Lead and facilitate meetings, walkthroughs, workshops, and reviews of deliverables
• Contribute to training strategies and business implementation planning.
• Help coordinate multi-squad development and delivery of training & support materials for affected stakeholders

Must Haves:

• 7+ years as a Business Systems Analyst in a Technology delivery environment
• Comfortable in creating feature specification documents, understanding of APIs, JSON payload structures
• Experience supporting multiple development, QA and business teams throughout design, build, testing and implementation.
• Experience working within an Agile Scrum and/or Kan Ban team
• Experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience working with, or within, a financial services organization
• Experience leading discovery, scoping, system-impact assessments and requirements analysis for large, complex or multi-product initiatives.
• Experience creating feature specifications, functional and non-functional requirements, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience analyzing APIs, JSON payloads, integrations, data flows and system dependencies.
• Ability to translate business requirements into clear technical specifications for developers and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders.