Job Description

Location Address: Hybrid - 333 King Street East, Toronto - 3 days/week onsite, no exceptions (which days will depend on project squad, TBD)
Contract Duration: ASAP to 04/30/2026 - approx. 4 months
Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week
Reason: New project
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering - Microservices - team is responsible to work on microservices for mobile and web digital banking applications
Project: To support the Fired Up (FUSE) project - BSA will support card servicing area pertaining to debit or credit card Lifecyle - replacement, loss, provisioning, wallet
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at a top 5 Canadian bank with the opportunity for extension
- The candidate will be working with Scotia Digital on the latest tech stack - an extremely fast-paced, forward-thinking, and constantly changing environment
- Opportunity to work on the project at a business level and have insight and input into overall project
Typical Day in Role:
- Analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation
- Ensure integrity of the business and technical requirements in the end-to-end customer journey
- Drive joint application design solutioning sessions with our architecture, development, and security
architecture teams that inform high-level estimates for large and medium-sized incoming initiatives
- Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract
requirements, and turn them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc. to meet
development and stakeholder needs
- Lead enterprise process engineering development across infrastructure, Security, DevOps and cryptography teams
- Create, refine and maintain the product backlog and associated deliverables; release backlog with forecasted delivery timelines
- Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business
alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (such as
reporting, performance, interfaces, and constraints.)
- Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 10+ years of progressive experience as a Business Systems Analyst in a challenging IT system solution environment
2) 5+ years of hands-on experience with REST API's and microservices
3) 5+ years' experience working with API documents using either Swagger or OpenAPI
4) 4+ years' experience creating BSA artifacts - user stories, sequence diagrams, flow, UML diagrams etc.
5) Recent experience from FI/banking
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experience as a Delivery Lead or Scrum master (scrum master preferred)
2) Experience with system analysis on enterprise level solutions
3) Experience with estimating high level work efforts
4) 5+ years of experience in an agile environment - agile/lean evangelist
5) Client/ BNS experience is a plus
Soft Skills Required:
- Detail Oriented. You notice all the little details for every document/requirement/conversation that comes across you, and it drives you crazy that others cannot keep everything consistent.
- Self - Motivated. You do good work, and lots of if; the drive to deliver quality work is just a part of you. You are also able to simplify complex situations and navigate ambiguity.
- Communicator/Negotiator. You are great at making sure everyone's speaking the same language and are on the same page, and sometimes that involves some give and take.
- Multi-tasker. You can multi-task and work on multiple initiatives at the same time.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering or Computer Science degree
Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate is a strong BSA ideally from banking background and has senior BSA skillset, can lead and make decisions; if they have experience from BNS would be a huge plus as project is working on BNS domain specifically; Able to drive high level estimation conversation of work with architect to provide idea of how many sprints or how many workdays. Strong with APIs, microservices and API documents; able to talk through how to create sequence, flow and UML diagrams.
Candidate Review & Selection
1st round - 1 hour - MS Teams Video Interview - with HM and other BSAs on the team
30 minutes - Case study - shared live in interview for candidates to respond and come up with sequence diagrams and answers live
30 minutes - BSA artifacts, best practices, experience
**Note: Please ensure the candidates' experience is accurately reflected in the CV/matrix - no embellishments, please vet candidates beforehand (e.g. they are a QA but are submitted to BSA role). Same manager had issues with previous submissions not being accurate.
Hiring Manager's availability to interview: ASAP
***NOTE: *** will review any requests for accommodations put forward by Suppliers***

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