Business Analyst – Senior
- Pay Rate: Flexible
- Location: Toronto, Ontario – Hybrid
- Contract Length: 6 Months
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:
- Analyze and decompose workflows, data needs, decision points, and exceptions for the IAA solution.
- Identify and resolve inconsistencies across user stories and capability areas.
- Research IAM concepts (digital identity, authentication, authorization) to close knowledge gaps.
- Define clear, testable acceptance criteria aligned with business rules, architecture, security, and integration needs.
- Collaborate across teams to align on requirements, dependencies, and decisions, ensuring quick resolution of gaps.
- Ensure documentation quality, adherence to standards, and maintain traceability from requirements to design.
- Support Agile delivery by participating in ceremonies and ensuring stories meet Definition of Ready
Desired Skills:
- Knowledge of digital identity frameworks such as OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML, or NIST 80063.
- Experience working in health information management, provider data, or digital health ecosystems.
- Familiarity with public-sector governance, privacy, and cybersecurity considerations.
- Proficiency with tools including Azure DevOps, Confluence, Miro/Lucid, Visio, and Excel.
- Experience working with solution integrators and large vendor teams.
Required Skills:
- Proven ability to write clear, detailed, and testable acceptance criteria for user stories.
- Strong experience leading discovery sessions and translating business needs into structured user stories.
- Ability to identify, document, and apply business rules, workflows, and dependencies across user stories.
- Experience managing and refining user story backlogs, organizing stories into work packages, and tracking status in Agile tools (e.g., Azure DevOps).
- Demonstrated ability to work with business and architecture stakeholders to review, validate, and obtain approval of requirements
Evaluation Criteria:
- Minimum 7+ years, including senior-level work on complex digital programs 15 Points
- Demonstrated experience analyzing high-volume functions, processes, workflows, and user stories and producing clear, structured, unambiguous acceptance criteria suitable for architects, testers, and solution integrators. 20 Points
- Experience in IAM/digital identity, authentication/authorization workflows, or provider identity systems. 20 Points
- Hands-on experience using Azure DevOps for backlog management, backlog refinement, Sprint management, requirements and test management, and traceability. 10 Points
- Demonstrated ability to lead sessions, clarify requirements, and drive consensus in multi-party environments. 15 Points
- Experience developing detailed data requirements and rationalizing across a high volume of processes. 20 Points
Total Evaluation Criteria: 100 Points
Deliverables:
- Support the user story acceptance criteria documentation- deliver comprehensive acceptance criteria documentation for approximately 900 user stories.
Must Haves:
- 7+ years of Business Analysis experience, with at least 3 years in senior BA roles supporting large-scale digital or identity-related programs.
- 7+ years Proven experience developing detailed, testable requirements, translating user stories into clearly defined process flows, workflows, functional capabilities, and implementation-ready system specifications to support Agile delivery frameworks.
- 7+ years Proven experience developing and managing detailed data requirements, including data elements, structures, and data flows required to support business, system functionality, and system interoperability.
- 7+ years Experience working within digital identity, access management, authentication, authorization, or interoperability domains in support of secure digital services.
- 7+ years Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) for work item management, backlog refinement, and documentation.
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