Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst - Senior

Location: Toronto, ON

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 11 months

Extension: 1 Time

Must Haves

• 8+ years' experience in business analysis
• Demonstrated experience facilitating JAD session
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies.
• Figma, HTML, CSS
• Creating detailed business analysis documents, user stories, business case

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Responsibilities

• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice.
• Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches.
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; business rules definition.
• 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.

Knowledge and Skills

• Business Analysis experience in large IT organizations, preferably within an OPS environment.
• Hands on experience in Agile, Waterfall, Iterative Agile, and Product management methodologies.

Resume Evaluation Criteria

• Participate in governance working group meetings, analysing, recommending, documenting and implementing architecture and SDLC best practices.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating with business stakeholders on functional design issues and detailed solution design sessions.
• Experience documenting project status reports, project tracking for resources, finances, progress, issues and risks.

Knowledge Transfer

• All documentation relating to the application/functional and technical specifications for systems development, including design, components, process flows.
• Knowledge Transfer to occur throughout the project life cycle via 1:1 meetings, team meetings, documentation on SharePoint site.

Deliverables

• All documentation relating to the application/functional and technical specifications for systems development.
• Design, components, process flows, other documentation that was developed/updated.
• Project status reports, project tracking for resources, finances, progress, issues and risks.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated experience in UAT
• 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

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

Nice to have

• Experience with user centric website/forms design

Knowledge Transfer

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