Business Analyst – Senior
- Pay Rate: (flexible)
- Location: 222 Jarvis St 5th floor Toronto, ON
- Contract Length: 9 Months
Work Type: Remote
We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Ontario Public Sector 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.
Skills
Assignment Deliverables:
The Senior Business Analysts will work closely with the Business Team, Business Architect, Systems Architect, Technical Architect, Development Team and Project Manager to ensure completeness of requirements and full understanding of business expectations. Sr. Business Analyst will generate artifacts that demonstrate how business, operations and systems inter-operate within the organization to support new correspondence business processes. In this period the Sr. Business Analyst will deliver the following:
1. Detail Business Requirements
2. Screen Design/User Interface
3. Check Point 0,1,2 material
4. Business Process Models
5. Business Scenarios
6. Business Rule Profiles
7. Business Domain/Function Model (breakdown)
8. Business Domain Concept/Class Model
9. System Functional Requirements (including use cases)
10. Supplementary Specifications
11. Other business domain artifacts as per GO-ITS 56 Enterprise Architecture
12. Support the development of Business Architecture
13. Support the completion of the Threat Risk Assessment
14. Support the development of Logical Architecture Artifacts
The Senior Business Analyst will also conduct sessions to verify the artifacts, evaluate technologies, and create the artifacts that demonstrate how business, operations and systems inter-operate within the organization to support new correspondence business processes.
Required Skillset:
- Candidate should have 10+ years’ experience in business analysis and modeling
- 10+ years’ experience in applying business modeling techniques/tools in a way that the developed artifacts can be reused and leveraged for multiple projects
- Experience in the following areas:
- Development of business strategies
- Business process re-engineering
- Business case development and cost-benefit analysis
- Feasibility studies
- Joint Application Development (JAD) facilitation
- Process improvement
- System enhancements
- User training
- Screen Design (GUI Designer – Balsamiq & Figma)
- Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for users-requirements elicitation and the development of specifications
- Experience in UML (Unified Modeling Language)
- Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope (e.g., Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect CASE tool)
- Proven ability to support the client in development of presentation materials, briefing notes, etc. related to the project.
- Ensure that the artifacts are aligned with the enterprise architecture standards and principles (i.e., GO-ITS 56)
- Good understanding of OPS corporate policy development and communications business processes and general practices
- Good understanding of the components of the Government of Ontario’s senior level reporting as it exists today, and the types of decision-making tools used such as correspondence, communications planning, issues/briefing notes, FOI requests, and financial and HR reporting.
- Experience working on a Document Management System or/and Customer Relationship Management System (CRM), andor Talent Management (TM) or Human Resources Management System (HRMS) would be considered an advantage.
Criteria:
Business Requirements Gathering/Documentation:
- 10+ years experience in a business analyst capacity, with demonstrated work outlined clearly
- Experience conducting requirements gathering and developing documentation
- Demonstrated experience with developing business strategies, business process re-engineering
- Demonstrated experience with business case development, cost-benefit analysis and feasibility studies in a complex project environment
- 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
Technical Experience:
- Demonstrated Experience with GUI, user interface design and mock ups. (e.g. Balsamiq)
- Demonstrated Experience with Joint Application development (JAD), Unified Modelling language (UML), and Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools.
- Demonstrated experience with Document Management system and/or Customer Relationship Management System (CRM)
- Exposure to working with diverse business environments and enterprise wide systems.
System Functional Requirements:
- Ability to work with business and development teams to document system requirements.
- Demonstrated experience with creating Business Cases, Screen Design/User Interface, Business Process Models, Privacy Impact Assessment and Threat Risk Assessments, and Logical architecture artifacts, among other deliverables.
- Demonstrated experience with Business Architecture.
Communication Skills:
- 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 Haves:
- Candidate should have 10+ years’ experience in business analysis and modeling
- 10 years’ experience in applying business modeling techniques/tools in a way that the developed artifacts can be reused and leveraged for multiple projects
- Screen Design (GUI Designer – Balsamiq & Figma)
- Experience in UML (Unified Modeling Language)
- Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope (e.g., Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect CASE tool)
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