Senior Business Analyst Jobs

Title:: Senior Business Analyst
Location:: Kingston or Toronto, ON , Canada
Duration:: Contract

• Leading and conducting business analysis at varying levels of detail in order to assess client's business problems/opportunities and documenting the assessments.
• In-depth knowledge of industry standard methodologies such as I&IT project management and development (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative) methodologies.
• Facilitating and managing stakeholder communication both on an ongoing basis and throughout project life cycles, to support informed client/cluster decision-making on solution options; and to verify that requirements meet final solution
• Conducting business modeling, use case modeling, conceptual and logical data modeling, process and data flow modeling, stakeholder analysis, use case surveys, business rules definition and functional and non-functional requirements elicitation and definitions for assigned projects.
• Lead/contribute to the completion of business requirements
• Lead/contribute to the completion of testing artefacts
• Description of Business Context
• Conducting gap and impact analysis of upgrades to technologies to identify changes needed for business processes and best practice, and for solutions including configuration, reports and integration components.
• Developing healthcare user/stakeholder journey maps and use cases based on business requirements and ensuring traceability.
• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
• Monitoring progress, resolving problems and reporting regularly to I&IT management and clients' decision makers.
• Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff.
• Perform necessary analysis (root cause analysis) and work with development and QA teams to identify and resolve issues.
• Description of Programs and Services
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.
• Developing maintaining a central repository to track and share project documentation.
• Developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and conducting follow-up.
• Developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost- benefit analysis, and conducting feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
• Description of Business Processes and Functions
• Develop/revise business processes/architecture artefacts including:
• Act as liaison with Business clients, partners, vendors and data providers.
• Document new requirements and complete analysis and design document.
• Participate in QA test planning and preparation, test execution and verification of test results and the coordination of user acceptance testing.
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.

NOTE
Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "Hybrid " as consultants may be required to work partly in the physical workplace and partly remotely. The details of this arrangement will be at the Hiring Manager's discretion.
Experience And Skill Set Requirements
Core Skills and Experience

• Knowledge and demonstrated experience with a wide range of methods, techniques and tools for business architecture such as, but not limited to:
• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in business analysis and requirements gathering.

o business functional modeling, IT Knowledge and Experience: General skills A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.

• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
• Demonstrated experience with a wide range of methods, tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping, user/stakeholder journey.
• Knowledge and understanding of and experience in the use of latest industry emerging IT trends and technologies (Digital Trust and Artificial Intelligence).
• Demonstrated awareness of emerging IT trends and technologies.
• User/Stakeholder Journey Mapping
• Demonstrated experience in successfully completing business requirements and architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations.
• Highly proficient using MS Office products
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
• Demonstrated experience in using collaborative tools.
• Service lifecycle modeling,
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and I&IT project management methodologies.
• 5+ years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (managing the backlog, preparing and supporting the scrum master, sprint planning, creating user stories etc.
• Proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
• Business process re-engineering.
• Experience and knowledge of development process framework and methods (Scrum, Agile and Zachman Framework) including business / information /application / technology / security architectures.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
• Knowledge and experience with information technology providing the ability to integrate and identify IT-enabled opportunities to solve business pressures/needs.
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
• Business event modeling,
• Business process mapping,
• Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
• 10+ years of demonstrated experience in business analysis and requirements gathering and translating business requirements into epics and scenarios and creating mock-ups for the stakeholders to review. Experience with cloud-hosting and integration of micro-services.
• Demonstrated excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.

Public Sector Experience

• Knowledge and understanding of project management policies and IT project approval processes and requirements.
• Experience adopting and adhering to unified I&IT project methodology, architecture and gating processes, and standard systems development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience preparing standard enterprise architecture frameworks, preparing architecture artifacts (or similar), and experience producing technical documentation that comply with standards, guidelines and best-practices.
• Knowledge and experience with Health related or Health Insurance related projects.

Knowledge of Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act ( FIPPA) and it's municipal equivalent the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and their respective regulations.