Senior Business Analyst
- Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid (4 Days on-site)
- Pay Rate: $65.37/hr – $77.18/hr
- Contract Length: 12 Months
We at Raise are hiring a Senior Business Analyst 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:
You will be responsible for business analysis activities on medium- to large-sized projects. The role demonstrates advanced knowledge and ability, applying the competency in new or complex situations and guiding other professionals. The role is responsible for the execution of all aspects of requirements delivery—planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support—for changes to Business Areas and Technology.
- Perform a requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities.
- Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates.
- Lead various Agile ceremonies, alongside the Product Owner
- Manage risks, assumptions, and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties.
- Lead & facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review.
- Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards in Confluence.
- Prepare requirements for review by applying various communication techniques and lead the requirements walkthrough.
- Work collaboratively with Product, Strategy, and the UI/UX Design team to design and build application UI pages.
- Provide ongoing requirements/build/testing support to the developers and QA team.
- Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure the relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation.
- Provide consulting services to business partners on new initiatives.
- Continually enhance skills and build knowledge in all aspects of the organization, the business, and information technology
- Provide guidance and support to build the capabilities of the junior BAs.
Must-have Skills:
- Minimum 8-10 years of professional BA/BSA experience in a project-based Agile environment. Expert at requirements gathering, documentation, testing, and developing high-level plans.
- Proven experience in Agile methodology
- Proven ability to gather business and Systems requirements independently, having strong business analysis and systems analysis skills.
- Proven experience in Requirements analysis and quality documentation: Scope Modelling, Business Process Modelling, Data Requirements, Business Rules Analysis, Non-Functional Requirements, User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
- Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders; Experience facilitating a large roomful of stakeholders (15–20 or more).
- Excellent collaboration skills, attention to detail, gap analysis, and ability to work on multiple projects at the same time. Experience working on medium to large projects—over $2 million.
- Deep Knowledge of requirements documentation and modeling tools (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, Mural, Figma)
- Solid understanding of system integration concepts and APIs
- Comfortable analyzing payloads (JSON/XML) and mapping data elements to requirements
Nice-to-have Skills:
- Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis
- Prior experience in enterprise-level and mobile projects
- Experience with Orchestrators, APIs, mid-tier services
- Knowledge of current Accessibility standards
Looking for meaningful work? We can help!
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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