Job Description

Title : Senior Business Analyst - (2-3 days Onsite Hybrid)
Location: - Toronto, ON
Duration : Contract

Security Level
CRJMC

Description :
Responsibilities:

• Work in partnership with clients, advising them on information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems, work to improve structure and efficiency of an organization\'s I&IT systems.
• Consult with clients on the changes/modifications, recommend and develop training plans,
• Facilitate and lead in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design
• Uses requirements traceability matrix to link users\' requirements, business rules and conditions to systems use cases and test cases
• Analyze user requirements, generation of prototypes for user consultation and the design, testing, documentation, implementation and maintenance of applications.
• Is able to identify constraints and assumptions and then documents and present them to project teams
• Responsible for, but not limited to ensuring the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are well-understood, documented, and accurate.
• Participates in planning application development activities, provides direction, guidance and support to technical staff
• Establish the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver
• Provide systems analysis and design expertise in the development and maintenance of the Ministry application systems
• Contributes to writing test cases for application, system, usability and user acceptance testing
• Provide guidance to organization with regard to information management & IT technology, IT infrastructures and the enablement of major business processes through enhancements to IT

General Skills

• Lead and conduct business analysis in order to assess client\'s business problems/opportunities
• Experience with Agile project methodology
• Experience grooming and assembling requirements into coherent user stories and use cases and managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead
• Lead and conduct business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the
• project, aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard
• Meet with the Product Owner and end-users to understand the team\'s work
• Act as a proxy Product Owner for the team, where the BA answers questions or facilitates decisions on behalf of an absent Product Owner
• Develop strategies, prepare business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
• Develop sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
• Conduct business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions
• Monitor progress, resolve problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders
• Develop performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis
• Apply re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
• Knowledge of project management and in-depth knowledge of task estimation, scheduling and control
• Can help plan, develop, manage, control projects and resolve complex technical design problems
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Technical Knowledge and Expertise
You have:

• Expertise in C\xc3\xbaram Social Program Management platform including Child Welfare
• working knowledge of business system technologies to provide technical expertise and advice
• experience with design, develop, test and implement systems solutions, and evaluate software/ hardware
• knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies and Agile project methodology
• experience with advanced application prototyping
• experience in the analysis and design of Microsoft Azure Cloud Based Applications and advanced workflows using Microsoft Flow & Logic Apps
• knowledge in Microsoft Power Platform App (
• experience with creating and managing user stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps and/or Jira
• knowledge of design methodologies in Internet-based and/or distributed environments
• ,familiarity with ITIL Processes for Change/Release, relational and hierarchical database technologies, use of information retrieval packages using SQL and other query
• knowledge of front end, web-based technologies and data-mining/reporting-based COTS tools encompassing feasibility studies, requirements definition, analysis, prototyping, system design, implementation, testing and maintenance
• advanced technical knowledge of large hardware and software operations and utilities, productivity tools, client server architecture, online processing systems, web-based technologies, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and database management systems
• knowledge of rules-based engines based in COTS applications like C\xc3\xbaram
• knowledge of emerging IT trends and technologies
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

Must haves:
5+ yrs of experience as Business Analyst

• Experience with Curam business analysis practices
• Experience with Agile project methodology leveraging Jira and/or DevOps
• Experience transposing requirements into coherent user stories
• Strong communications, consultations and interpersonal skills to determine client needs
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams

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