Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business Group: Global Retail Data
• Contributes to the overall success of the Data Office in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team\xe2\x80\x99s business strategies and objectives.
• The main function of the Senior Technical Business Analyst role is to support investigation, development, testing and operationalization of data solutions related to strategic goals of the Data Office.
• This role ensures all activities are conducted in compliance with enterprise data standards, policies, and procedures.

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within client. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work.
• You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology.

Typical Day in Role:

• Experience working in data management and can provide hands-on support on the implementation according to Data Office playbooks, guidelines, standards, and policies (e.g., documenting initiatives, use cases, data tiering and classification, critical data elements and business data elements)
• Performs any necessary data mapping and data lineage activities and documents information flows to support specific business requirements
• Performs data profiling, analyzes, and communicates results in support of data quality processes
• Builds the metadata model and business glossary by gathering information from multiple sources: business users, existing data sources, databases and other relevant documents and systems
• Participates in knowledge transfer within the team, business units and provide recommendation opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
• Monitors project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports, and recommending actions.
• Work in an Agile mindset to accelerate the delivery of the project
• Prepares technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Assesses, researches, analyzes, and documents project needs and outcomes by selecting the appropriate information gathering and/or modelling technique to elicit requirements

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:

• 8+ years of working experience as a Technical Business Analyst
• Strong experience of business analysis processes, frameworks with documenting processes and data flows
• 5+ years of Data Management background and experience
• 5+ years of experience with business acumen, data analysis, metadata documentation, and data quality controls skills specifically with respect to analyzing business process controls, sourcing and provisioning of lineage, identifying data quality issues and proposing remediation steps
• Experience in agile project methodology and artifacts, on software/application development lifecycle in an agile fashion
• Working knowledge of data flows within a large enterprise

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Familiar with Collibra Data Management Tool
• Knowledge of programming language e.g. Python, SQL, Big Query
• Cloud platforms and related data services knowledge (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services)
• Previous experience working in Banking/FI

Soft Skills:

• Strong oral and written communication skills and comfortable presenting to a variety of audiences
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
• Detail-oriented and skilled in summarizing and provides insights from complicated processes
• Self-motivated to solve problems and able to work collaboratively with other team members

Best vs. Average Candidate:

• Proactive \xe2\x80\x93 volunteer to take on initiatives
• Interpersonal skills

Education:

• Strong technical education background, majoring in fields that require a high degree of analytical skills, such as Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Math, Statistics or related field

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 1st round MS Teams video interview \xe2\x80\x93 Panel (1 hour):

o Technical assessment

• 2nd round MS Teams video interview \xe2\x80\x93 Panel with Director (1 hour):

o Interpersonal skills

Job Details

11165

Contract

12 months

Toronto

ProViso Consulting