Business Analyst – Senior
Pay Rate: (flexible)
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Contract Length: 12 Month, Onsite
We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our 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.
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 Methodolo
- This position is listed as "Onsite"; the resource is expected to work 7.25 hours per calendar day between the standard working hours of 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) every Monday to Friday inclusive at the identified OPS office location.
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
10+ years of extensive experience in the following:
Business Analyst Experience – 50%:
- Applies depth of domain & functional expertise for the assigned portfolio to drive the expected business value.
- Understanding of systems environments, business analysis and change management in projects or programs related to integrated multi-ministries’ government services.
- 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 (must have)
- Ability to assist with the security issues that could impact developed front-end and integrated systems.
- Develops informative, coherent, and usable project documents (project artifacts) for multiple stakeholders covering functional and non-functional business requirements.
- Experience with architectural framework system, specifically Zachman Framework (must have)
- Disaster Recovery Planning (nice have)
- IT service value stream mapping (must have)
- Ability to work with business and development teams to document system requirements.
- Experience with a wide range of methods, tools, and techniques for business analysis such as, but not limited to business functional modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping.
- Demonstrated experience with creating Business Cases, Screen Design/User Interface, Business Process Models, Privacy Impact Assessment and Threat Risk Assessments
Technical Experience – 20%:
- 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 have)
- Exposure to working with diverse business environments and enterprise-wide system.
- Knowledge of Large Language Model and Generative AI application
- Demonstrated Experience with Joint Application development (JAD), Unified Modelling language (UML), and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
- Knowledge and Experience of DevOps.
- Knowledge of Big Data platform and application.
Project Experience – 20%:
- Experience with Driver and Vehicle ServiceOntario portal services (nice to have)
- Minimum 5 years experience in creating enterprise architecture documentation; expert level in architectural deliverables, including the following must haves below:
- Checkpoint/Gating Matrix
- Logical and Physical Documentation
- Logical and Physical Deployment Models
- Business Architecture Approach
- Sequence Diagram
- Data Flow Diagram
- Cross Functional Team Process Flow Diagram
- Architectural documents for ACT and ARB approvals
- Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
- OPS project experience (except Driver & Vehicle SO portal services).
- Agile project experience, and sources management.
Communication Skills – 10%:
- Demonstrated experience in solving problems analytically and making sound decisions based on.
- Experience in negotiating using both verbal and written communication skills and should have worked in a team-based environment with a proven record of meeting deadlines.
Must Have:
- Experience with disaster planning recovery – at least 2-3 yrs of exp at least. – MUST HAVE
- Experience with business process mapping / value stream mapping – MUST HAVE
- Experience with Lean Six Sigma – MUST HAVE
- Experience with multiple stakeholders with solid communication and documentation exp.
- Develops informative, coherent, and usable project documents (project artifacts) for multiple stakeholders covering functional and non-functional business requirements.
- Experience with architectural framework system, specifically Zachman Framework (general understanding)
- Experience as a Project Manager/BA – strong PMLC understanding.
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