Business Analyst - Senior (A1527304)

Project Details:

The Disability Management Information System (DMIS) Replacement Project aims to replace the current Abilities Information Management System (AIMS) with a modern, cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. The current solution (AIMS) is used by Ontario Shared Services (OSS) and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) for reporting health and safety incidents and managing occupational and non-occupational illness and injury cases, including Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) claims and financial transactions.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our team for the Disability Management Information System (DMIS) Replacement Project. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will provide a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services, working closely with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather, document, and analyze diverse business and technological needs. Your expertise will be instrumental in assessing business problems and opportunities, developing sound processes for requirements gathering, and preparing business cases and cost-benefit analyses. You will be responsible for ensuring the alignment of I&IT solutions with business requirements, while adhering to best practices and standards.

Criteria:Business Analytical Skills and Competencies (60%)

• Develops performance measures for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up.
• Drives the user acceptance testing process, including preparation of acceptance criteria, review of the test plans and scenarios, review of test results as well as end to end testing. In some cases, the Business Analyst also executes test cases and directly ensures system integrity.
• 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.
• Develop and design deliverables, including (and not limited to) integration requirements, data schemas, and design documentation, as well as the business’s implementation and conversion strategies and plans.
• Promotes business improvements through alternative service delivery approaches.
• 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 definition for assigned projects.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting the business requirements and ensuring that the deliverables produced by the development effort conform to the business requirements.
• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and document the business requirements in such a way that technology solutions can be determined.

Data Migration Expertise (10%)

• Assist with data migration activities such as development of legacy extract specifications, data cleansing requirements and quality assurance testing.

Communication and Collaborative Skills (30%)

• Schedule and mediate team meetings, follow up on issues, obtain concurrence from project stakeholders on completion of documented deliverables.
• Organize business and internal team meetings to identify and validate business and system requirements.
• Identify and quantify risks relevant to business and systems requirements, delivery timelines and quality.
• Act as liaison for cross-functional team, including vendor and business partners.
• Coordinate and communicate various aspects of the project, including producing status reports, meeting minutes, issue logs, and informing cross-functional teams of decisions and progress.
• Monitor progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and clients’ decision makers.

Requirements Key Skills:

• Create performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation, conducting necessary follow-ups.
• Monitor project progress, identify and resolve problems, and report regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders.
• Lead business analysis efforts, conducting assessments of clients business problems/opportunities and documenting business requirements for determining I&IT solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional project teams to ensure timely completion of deliverables and adherence to deadlines.
• Thrive as a team player, consistently delivering results while meeting deadlines.
• Apply re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost-effective service delivery approaches.
• Align business analysis activities with the OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
• Possess excellent analytical, problem-solving, verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Prepare business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
• Develop robust processes for requirements gathering, including JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
• Conduct 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.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with structured, object-oriented, and agile methodologies for user requirements.
• Experience in using information retrieval packages and knowledge of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
• Proficiency in conducting data migration and experience with Agile project management methodologies.
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications for designing appropriate technology solutions.
• Familiarity with various methods, tools, and techniques for business analysis, such as business functional modeling, business event modeling, and business process mapping.