Business Analyst – IT – Advanced
- Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid (4 days onsite)
- Pay Rate: $65.37/hr – $77.18/hr
- Contract Length: 12 Months with a possibility of extension
We at Raise are hiring a Business Analyst – IT – Advanced for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
- Perform stakeholder analysis to identify impacted groups and stakeholder responsibilities.
- Develop requirements plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates.
- Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
- Define the business analysis approach, including tasks and deliverables, based on the project and delivery methodology.
- Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to identify business priorities.
- Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, review, and prioritization.
- Act as a liaison between business and technical teams, ensuring alignment and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
- Analyze and document detailed business requirements and system requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology.
- Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders.
- Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise and digital standards.
- Resolve conflicts/issues on behalf of the BA team and escalate as required.
- Support Design, Development, and QE activities by providing requirements clarifications.
- Support QE test activities, including planning, defect triage, and root-cause analysis for requirements-related issues.
- Support the consistency of standards and adherence to enterprise requirements methodology within own BA team.
- Effectively communicate and build rapport with team members and stakeholders.
Must have skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst and/or Business Systems Analyst, preferably within large Financial Institutions.
- Strong experience in both business and technical analysis, with the ability to bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions.
- Experience with user stories, business and systems specifications, business context diagrams, business process maps, use cases, and user story maps.
- Experience working on Digital (Online and Mobile) banking projects
- Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and working on agile projects
- Experience in requirements elicitation techniques such as Document analysis, interviews, facilitated workshops, Observation, Prototyping, focus groups, and surveys.
Nice to have skills:
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute—Professional in Business Analysis Certification (PMI—PBA)
- Agile certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or similar.
- Previous experience in Salesforce CRM and related salesforce certification
- Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
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