Senior Technical Business Analyst

Job description:

Responsible for taking business requirements and translating them into technical requirements and solutions.

• Create project documents and associated planning documents.

• Create stakeholder analyses.

• Lead consultations and facilitate stakeholder meetings.

• Create business requirements, functional specifications and technical requirements.

• Create new business and technical processes and complete business process reviews/re-engineering for existing processes.

• Facilitate business process improvement sessions.

• Assist in the development of new IT services.

• Schedule, organize and lead project status meetings and other meetings as required.

• Provide support by bridging communication between vendors, client ministries, and corporate technical and business teams.

• Escalate unresolved issues/risks, options and recommendations.

• Responsible for business architecture design, software system specifications design, and database modelling.

• Participate iterative development using model-based processes .

• Perform project management, business and technical analysis and systems design in delivering complex software solutions spanning n-tier development environments.

• Produce project artifices with XML; UML and/or other web-services technologies.

• Prepare, update and manage documents defining the business requirements, software requirements, functional design, and project plans and schedules reflecting achievable deliverables for the applications.

• Prepare regular project status reports indicating project deliverables, possible risk and issues, time-lines and anticipated effort.

• Ensure appropriate project communication occurs to all parties involved during all phases of the project.

• Identify required user training.

• Additional responsibilities as required by the Project Manager for a Business Analyst or Lead Technical Analyst role

Project Overview:

Technology and Innovation requires Information Technology (IT) professional resources to provide a Senior Technical Analyst for the project delivery of the IMT Sector ministry projects to Modernize & Enhancements of GoA Service Delivery within the ministry of Technology and Innovation.

Initiatives to Modernize & Enhancements of GoA Service Delivery include multiple Department applications including the following:

• TRA and TBF Applications Maintenance Support (AMS) Activities (Estimated End Date: 6/30/2024)

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and contribute to initiatives

• Gather technical requirements and implement new technologies to support reporting requests, process re-engineering, application configuration/customizations

• Work closely with Release Manager, Program and Project Managers to coordinate releases across multiple technology teams, from inception to delivery

• Monitor and respond to open tickets through an incident management system, coordinate incidents with the internal application development and technology infrastructure teams

• Leverage scrum and other agile approaches to facilitate cross-team delivery

• Plan and prioritize product development and product feature backlog

• Work with internal customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals

• Participate in scrum meetings and product sprints

• Support the application support and development manager

Evaluation Matrix - Mandatory Skills:

Description of Skill:

- The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following:

• University graduation in business, management or a related discipline and 4-yr Technical Business Analyst (BA) experience;

OR

• 2-yr diploma in business, management or a related discipline and 6-yr BA experience;

OR

• 1-yr certificate in business, management or a related discipline and 7-yr BA experience;

OR

• 8-yr BA experience

- Experience as a business analyst translating business requirements into detailed technical requirements in an enterprise environment.

- Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in drafting strategic business and technical documentation.

- Experience in facilitating and managing business process development and process re-engineering workshops and sessions.

- Experience in gathering requirements from a diverse group of stakeholders across ministries or departments.

- Experience in developing integrated systems and technical design specifications on complex engagements.

Evaluation Matrix - Desired Skills:

- Experience in the development of project documents for a wide variety of initiatives and projects (strategic, business improvement, information technology, etc.).

- Experience in facilitating meetings and communicating with senior management and project stakeholders.

- Experience in the design, development and implementation of complex IT solutions.

- Experience with the development and implementation of content management, document management, records management, information management processes in applications.

- Experience working in or for the public sector.

- Experience with IT service management, IT service management applications, IT application development and maintenance projects.

- Experience working within an agile development environment.

- Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

- Experience in understanding of business values related to features and functions

**Experience must be described in resume.

- Experience in effectively managing conflicting needs of stakeholders

**Experience must be described in resume.

- Do you have related Canadian education (e.g. certificate, diploma or degree) or your foreign credentials certified by Immigration Canada, IQAS or any accreditation acceptable to the Government of Canada or Alberta?

**Provide information regarding certification of foreign credentials.

*Enter “1” for “Yes” and “0” for “No”.