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Job Title: RQ05952 - Business Analyst - Senior
Client: Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry
Work Location: 40 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto, Ontario, Hybrid
Estimated Start Date: 2023-10-02
Estimated End Date: 2024-03-31
#Business Days: 130.00
Extension: 260.00
Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day
Security Level: No Clearance Required
Mandatory Requirements
Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders, understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates
Experience working in agile / iterative delivery teams
Expert knowledge/experience in writing detailed user stories
Demonstrated experience with JAD/Sprint session facilitation and the ability to interpret business needs to technical requirements
Demonstrated experience with implementation of business solutions using Commercial off the Shelf solution implementations such as Oracle Siebel based systems
Experience with agile
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Description
Leads the elicitation, elaboration, analysis and validation of business requirements and data needs
Plans and facilitates workshops to gather requirements and create user stories
Provide support during the design, implementation and testing phases of the project
Supports the product manager and product owner to refine and groom the product backlog
Analyze business requirements to identify solution options or improvements
Works with the developers to align business requirements with solution capabilities
Report progress on deliverables on a regular basis at stand-ups, and other team meetings as required
Proactively raise risks/issues and propose mitigation strategies
Conduct feasibility analysis, scoping and provide work estimates on user stories
Conduct Joint Requirements Planning and Joint Application Design sessions
Analyze and map processes / data for current state and future state
Review and provide feedback of technical design documents
Conducts product walkthroughs / demonstrations at the end of each sprint cycle
Facilitate and produce Sprint artefacts as required
Skills
Experience working in agile / iterative delivery teams
Proven experience with all stages of system implementation for complex large scale applications
Proven experience facilitation of client meetings/workshops, interpretation of business needs to technical requirements
Experience creating and documenting detailed user stories
Experience working with Public Sector applications, databases and systems; using COTS products such as Oracle Siebel
Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
Experience conducting feasibility analysis, scoping and providing project work estimates
Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation
Experience planning and managing product backlog, planning and managing sprints, and implementing in an iterative manner
Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, vendor(s) and other stakeholders.
Excellent facilitation, presentation, time-management and problem-solving skills.
Able to build strong and trusting relationships while liaising effectively with internal and external stakeholders
Strong leadership skills to provide advice and guidance on all aspects of user experience and design, assessing user characteristics, needs, goals, and opportunities
Creative, innovative, and can think outside the box to visualize solutions that meet business needs.
Knowledge and experience with supporting Public Sector Digital First strategies; experience with working with Digital Service standards including formal submissions for assessments as per official digital standards established
Creative, analytical approach and strong understanding of interaction design principles, including ability and experience to deliver mock-ups using advanced tools
Able to resolve issues in a timely manner, provide options and recommendations.
Thrive on feedback and comfortable transforming ideas generated through user research and analysis to create elegant, effective designs for diverse audiences.
Understand business metrics and able to translate business goals and objectives into digital experiences.
Able to prioritize change requests from clients and guide the team in determining how best to address them.
Knowledge to ensure compliance with requirements for accessibility and user centric design including Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and Simpler, Better, Faster Services Act
Strong research skills to perform industry research, provide options and make recommendations for solution improvements.
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Business Analysis Skills \xe2\x80\x93 40%
Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders, understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates
Experience working in agile / iterative delivery teams
Expert knowledge/experience in writing detailed user stories
Expert knowledge/experience creating business process maps/diagrams
Experience with documenting deliverables (Functional and Non-functional requirements, System Requirements Specifications, Business requirements / rules, Business Process Models, Data Requirements / Models (conceptual / logical), Risks and Issues, Business and System Use Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrices, Status Reports, Test Plan / Strategies, Test Cases etc.)
Demonstrated experience with JAD/Sprint session facilitation and the ability to interpret business needs to technical requirements
Demonstrated ability in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates
Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation
Ability to write high quality business cases, working with corporate governance bodies and navigating approvals
Technical Skills - 30%
Proven experience in investigating, analyzing and estimating system applications in large integrated complex environments
Experience with all stages of system implementation in complex solutions
Demonstrated experience with implementation of business solutions using Commercial off the Shelf solution implementations such as Oracle Siebel based systems
Ability to document requirements using story boarding utilizing tools such as Jira
Experience with prototyping tools to deliver high quality prototypes and mock-ups
Experience with business process mapping tools such as Visio
Soft Skills - 25%
Experience with agile
Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
Strong stakeholder management skills
Demonstrated consensus building skills
Public Sector Experience \xe2\x80\x93 5%
Experience with Public Sector I&IT Solutions architecture, application design, quality assurance standards, project delivery methodologies, and practices
Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems while developing cross cluster, multi-year business solutions including knowledge of Commercial off the Shelf product implementations with third party vendors
Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service
Working knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
Knowledge of Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act to support OPS\xe2\x80\x99 Digital First Strategy with user centric designs; familiarity with Digital Service Standards and Service Design Playbook
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