Job Description

What makes us a different kind of employer?

As a national health solutions partner, Medavie is committed to improving the wellbeing of Canadians - and in our digital-first culture, technology is key to providing the products, services and solutions that increase access to care and improve health outcomes.

Our technology team is the backbone of our organization with over 500 employees and growing. We are constantly creating, testing, and learning to enable personalized, digital experiences in all we do. When you join us, you\'ll be part of an in-house, innovation led team focused on cutting edge digital health solutions that help provide the best care possible, when and where it\'s needed.

Job Title: Analyst
Department: IT
Competition: 86092
Internal/External: Both
Employment Type: Full Time Permanent
Location: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario - Remote
Salary: Comprehensive Compensation
Reports To: Team Lead

The Opportunity

As a Medavie Functional IT Analyst, you will work with project stakeholders and business partners to elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage the real needs for our Finance, Administration and Claims Systems. You will be responsible to manage business expectations and advise, persuade and/or negotiate on problems, situations, or decisions of a simple to complex nature between stakeholders and serve as the liaison between customer community & software development teams.

What\'s in it for you?

What makes us a different kind of employer? In this role, we develop cutting edge Digital Health solutions for our members, partners, advisors, health care providers and group administrators. We are an in-house, innovation led, IT shop that is 500+ strong and growing! Whether you are just starting your career as a new grad or you are an experienced developer, we have challenging and rewarding roles and we are looking for top talent.

Common goals and collaboration to deliver outstanding service is what our team is all about, we offer:

A diverse team of colleagues with multiple fields of expertise

A stimulating and flexible working environment

Comprehensive health and dental plan that is 100% employer paid effective on your first day

Emphasis on work life balance, providing wellness benefits, health resources and fitness center discounts

An organization where we encourage personal learning, growth and giving back to our communities

Work Status: Due to Security Clearance requirement, we need candidate to be in Canada from at least 5 years and their status should be Permanent Resident or Citizen now.

What we offer:

• Permanent full-time position with opportunity to grow in a well-established organization
• Flexible work arrangements and emphasis on work-life balance
• Remote and hybrid work options
• Comprehensive health, vision and dental plan that is 100% employer paid effective on your first day
• 100% employer-matched Defined Contribution Pension Plan
• Annual Incentive Bonus which recognizes your contribution to our success.
• In addition to paid vacation, we offer a gifted week of vacation in your first year and an optional Vacation Purchase Program.
• An organization where we encourage personal learning and growth with opportunities for career development and advancement
• Providing wellness benefits, health resources and fitness center discounts

Your every day with us consists of:

• Working with project resources to plan and define scopes of work
• Facilitating efforts and working with business analysis resources to refine business and stakeholder requirements
• Identifying impact of requirements on processes impacted by the requested changes
• Gathering solution requirements though stakeholder engagement and technical documentation analysis
• Defining solution level functional and transitional requirements
• Defining quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints and other supporting requirements
• Designing solutions and creating solution requirements specification and functional design documentation
• Liaise with development resources to transition solutions to development
• Liaise with acceptance and release resources on test case development and defect management
• Working in and fostering a collaborative environment

What you need to be succeed:

• A clear understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• A high level understanding of software architectural patterns such as provider and consumer
• Experience working with relational data models and basic data analysis using SQL and Excel
• Experience gathering functional, non-functional, and transitional requirements
• Experience working on systems integration and migration related projects
• Able to translate and communicate complex business logic requirements
• Experience designing software solution specifications
• Experience supporting Project Management planning, providing estimates and reporting on progress, issues and risks
• Able to manage multiple priorities and activities
• Able to provide supervision, leadership, mentorship and coaching to assigned resources
• Able to plan and co-ordinate simple to complex projects and activities with team members and any stakeholder both internal to Medavie Blue Cross and external clients

Qualifications

Education: University degree or college diploma in Computer Science or similar program

Work Experience: Typically 7+ years of experience with doing requirements gathering and analysis work. Knowledge of software development life-cycle methodologies; Working knowledge of business domain and/or application

Work Status: You need to have Permanent Residency or Citizenship of Canada

Skills

Possess analytical and investigation skills

Have the ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure of time restraints

Be well organized, with excellent time management skills

Have excellent oral and written communication skills

Possess highly effective listening skills

Demonstrate mature and professional judgment and decision-making ability

Demonstrated skill facilitating and building consensus among process stakeholders

High attention to detail, using logic and good judgment in decision making for when different situations and skills may call for different approaches

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Medavie Blue Cross strives to foster a culture where everyone is enabled to achieve their full potential - a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) where we live our values every day in the way we treat each other, our members and the communities we serve. Accessibility is a top priority.

For applicants with disabilities, we provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform Medavie Blue Cross Human Resources staff of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation. All personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

We would like to thank all candidates for expressing interest. Please note only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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