Business Analyst – Senior
- Pay Rate: Flexible- Onsite
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
- Contract Length: 8 Months
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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 Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies
- Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
- Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
- Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
- 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
- Experience developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis
- Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
- Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
- Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
Desirable Skills:
- Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
- Experience with a wide range of methods, tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping
- Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
- Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Technical Skills: 30
- Demonstrated experience in business analysis to support systems development using a rules engine or business process automation platform
- Experience developing business models; use case models; conceptual and logical data models; process and data flow models; use case surveys; test cases; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
- Demonstrated experience in projects using an agile development methodology
Business Analysis Skills: 35
- Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and documenting business requirements
- Experience conducting policy and business analysis that can be accommodated within existing frameworks and IT solutions to minimize project time/cost implications
- Demonstrated experience applying business process transformation and re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative, cost effective service delivery approaches
- Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis at varying levels of detail, appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process
- Experience developing project approval documents, policy approval documents and regulation change materials and other supporting documentation needed for the project
- Demonstrated experience documenting requirements for business rule automation and workflow management solutions
- Experience developing and providing input to QA, system and user acceptance testing strategies, plans and scenarios
- Knowledge and understanding of policy development and analysis, business analysis and data analysis practices
Healthcare Experience: 20
- Demonstrated experience in a health or clinical context
- Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in a healthcare context
- Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context
- Demonstrated experience in claim adjudication or pharmaceutical context
Communication Skills: 15
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders
- A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
- Demonstrated leadership experience leading small and large teams, sub-groups, committees
- Demonstrated experience monitoring progress, resolving problems and reporting regularly to business and I&IT management decision-makers
- Demonstrated experience developing and/or supporting the development of training and communication materials in support of large system implementations.
Must Have:
- Demonstrated experience in business analysis to support systems development using a rules engine or business process automation platform
- Experience developing business models; use case models; conceptual and logical data models; process and data flow models; use case surveys; test cases; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
- Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and documenting business requirements
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