It business analyst Jobs in Milton, ON

About the Company
Our client is a leading Canadian energy organization with a strong presence across Ontario. They operate critical infrastructure that supports millions of customers and drives economic growth.

Why Work Here
Our client is engaging in ongoing transformation and investing in cutting-edge technologies and modernizing operations to meet the evolving needs of the energy sector. By joining, you will be part of an organization that values collaboration, professional development, and making a meaningful impact on the future of clean energy.

About the Opportunity

• Own end?to?end delivery for a portfolio of IT projects, ensuring alignment to business objectives, scope, schedule, and quality.
• Establish and maintain program governance, including cadence, status reporting, RAID (Risks/Assumptions/Issues/Dependencies), decision logs, and executive updates.
• Drive cross?project dependency management and integrated planning across multiple teams and vendors.
• Project Manager Leadership & Coaching:
• Support Project Managers by setting expectations and ensuring consistent project controls.
• Provide hands?on guidance to strengthen execution in planning, stakeholder management, schedule discipline, and risk management.
• Standardize project delivery practices, templates, and reporting to improve predictability and transparency.
• IT Delivery (Applications, Migration, Data:
• Lead programs involving application development and SDLC delivery (Agile, hybrid, or waterfall).
• Oversee legacy application modernization and migration to new platforms.
• Manage data migration planning and execution, including mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and cutover.
• Partner with architecture, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to ensure environment readiness, performance, and reliability.
• Financial & Resource Management:
• Build and manage program budgets, forecasts, and burn rates; track actuals vs. plan and drive corrective actions.
• Manage resource planning across workstreams, including internal teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Support procurement activities such as SOW review and vendor coordination.
• Stakeholder & Executive Communication:
• Serve as the primary point of contact for program health, timelines, risks, and decisions.
• Produce clear, action?oriented updates for leadership and escalate issues with recommended options.
• Facilitate steering committees and key decision forums.

About You

• 8+ years of progressive experience in IT project/program management, leading multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing Project Managers and improving delivery execution through coaching and governance.
• Proven delivery experience in at least two of the following: application development/systems implementation, legacy application migration/modernization, or data migration.
• Strong working knowledge of IT domains including applications, data, and foundational infrastructure concepts.
• Solid financial management experience, including budgets, forecasts, vendor spend tracking, and resource planning.
• Excellent communication skills with experience in executive?level reporting, facilitation, and stakeholder management.
• Strong command of delivery fundamentals: schedules, critical path, RAID management, dependency mapping, and change control.

Pay Range
$87.58 - $97.58/hr

How to Apply
Click the “Apply Now” button and follow the instructions to submit your resume. Please know that we only accept documents in MS Word or Rich Text formats.
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You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.