Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts al igning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.

Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.

Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices, and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice.

Fosters effective communication between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders, ensuring a transparent understanding of goals and requirements.

Manage / groom product backlog based on user needs / prioritization input

Single point of contact for business analysis, agile leadership, and team coordination minimizing communication gaps, reducing the risk of misinterpretation, and promote more effective project outcomes.

Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines.

Lead presentations / demonstrations of solution design and build for consultation group and stakeholders

Create & review the user flows and user stories, and ensure they meet the overall product vision and consistency across features

Support QA,UAT ,Architecture, and Technical activities to facilitate quality and enterprise standards are met

Support agile practices and encourage the improvement of service.

Identify gaps and improvements for enhance process flows/customer experience journeys.

Responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle working closely with product owner, including:

Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements

Defining the product vision

Ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals

Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes.

Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.

Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to management and stakeholders.

Conduct discovery, cost benefit analysis and prototyping

Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact.

Work closely with business and IT teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources.

Identifies dependencies with other teams and determines how to manage those dependencies without impacting the progress of the team.

General Skills:

Knowledge and experience with Agile Information and Information Technology (I⁢) methods and techniques associated with the development and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks.

Communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills

Demonstrated commitment and proven ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships and navigate through organizational approvals.

Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others.

Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution

Experience leading the Agile methodology and development teams in self-organization and identifying and filling in blanks in the framework.

Experience mentoring and coaching the teams on removing impediments.

Experience capturing feedback and documenting sprint reviews to administer project goals and improve team performance.

Leads and conducts business analysis to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I⁢ solutions can be determined.

Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I⁢ initiatives.

Experience leading requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations, and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement.

A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines,



managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience.

Required Skills:

Project Methodology certifications such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma Black/ Green/Yellow Belt, etc.

Knowledge of Ontario Public Service decision-making and project implementation processes is considered an asset.

Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

Knowledge and experience with Agile Information and Information Technology (I⁢) methods and techniques associated with the development and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks.

10 years of experience working as a BA

Strong Agile and Waterfall experience

Experiencedevelopingfunctionalandnonfunctionalrequirements,leadingandfacilitatesin-depthworkshopstoelicit,review,documentandconfirmbusinessrequirements,businessprocessreengineering,businessmodels,businessrulesanduserinterfacedesign,inordertocreatethetechnicalframework/specificationsfordevelopmentofthebusinesssolutionand/orinfrastructureservicesorplatforms.

Leads and facilitates indepth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, business process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design, in order to create the technical framework/specifications for development of the business solution and/or infrastructure services or platforms.

Experience with MS Office - PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Azure DevOps / Jira.

Experience with Enterprise Transformation / Modernization / service delivery related projects.

Skill Set Requirements:

BusinessAnalysisandTechnicalSkills:

Experienceleadingandconductingbusinessanalysisforbusinessprojectstoassessclients'businessproblemsoropportunities,documentthetechnicalbusinessrequirementstomeetthefunctionalrequirements.

Experiencedevelopingcontextdiagrams,usecasesandusecasemodels.

Experiencedevelopingbusiness service blueprints, user stories, technical & business process flows, process maps, data flow diagrams and customer journey maps

Experiencewritingbusinesscasesandconductingoptionsanalysis

Experiencedevelopingcost-benefitanalysis,andconductsfeasibilitystudiesforbusinessI&ITinitiatives.;

Experiencedevelopingfunctionalandnonfunctionalrequirements,leadingandfacilitatesin-depthworkshopstoelicit,review,documentandconfirmbusinessrequirements,businessprocessreengineering,businessmodels,businessrulesanduserinterfacedesign,inordertocreatethetechnicalframework/specificationsfordevelopmentofthebusinesssolutionand/orinfrastructureservicesorplatforms.

Experiencedevelopingperformancemeasuresforaprojectsandlinesofbusiness

Hands-onexperiencedevelopingeffectiveusecasesanduserstories

BusinessAnalysis:

Leadsandconductsbusinessanalysisbothonanongoingbasisandforbusinessprojectstoassessclients'businessproblemsoropportunities,documentthetechnicalbusinessrequirementstomeetthefunctionalrequirements,ensuringalignment withtheOPSprojectmanagementandrelatedmethodologies.

Appliesre-engineeringconceptstopromotebusinessimprovementsthroughalternative,costeffectiveservicedeliveryapproaches. Conductsongoingbusinessanalysisactivitiesandanalysiswithinallphasesoftheprojectlifecycle,includinginitialtechnicalrequirements,detailedplanofbusinessanalysisactivity,businessmodeling,analysisofbusinesstransformation,newbusinessdevelopmentandacquiredsolutions,continualrefinementofbusinessrequirementsandidentificationofsignificantchangesinrequirementdocumentationandmaintenanceofapprovedbusinessrequirement.

Developsstrategies,preparesbusinesscasesandcost-benefitanalysis,andconductsfeasibilitystudiesforbusinessI&ITinitiatives.;

Overseesongoingproductionsupportandconfigurationmanagement.

Leadsandparticipatesintheprocessforrequestsforproposals,withafocusonclientrequirementsandevaluationofvendorresponsesforI&ITbusinessand;/orinfrastructuresolutions.





Leadsandfacilitatesin-depthworkshopstoelicit,review,documentandconfirmbusinessrequirements,businessprocessreengineering,businessmodels,businessrulesanduserinterfacedesign,inordertocreatethetechnicalframework/specificationsfordevelopmentofthebusinesssolutionand/orinfrastructureservicesorplatforms.

Developsperformancemeasuresforbusinessanalysisevaluationandconductsfollow-upassessmentstoensurecompliancewithclientclusterandcorporateI&ITstrategies;,policiesandpriorities.

Managestheproblemidentificationandresolutionactivitytoensuretimelyresolutionofproductionproblems.

Experience:

Experienceon large andmediumsizedprojectasabusinessanalystorfunctionalconsultant

ExperienceEnterprisebusinessarchitecturalconceptsinordertoensurethatrecommendedtechnologiesareconsistentwithOPSstandards.

Experiencedevelopingbusinesscasesfromstarttofinish

Experiencewiththesoftwaredevelopmentlifecycle,softwaredesign,developmentandintegration,databaseconcepts,userinterfacedesignprinciple,changemanagement,qualityassurance,riskmanagement,disasterrecoveryplanning,businesscontinuityplanningtodevelopsolutionsand/orinfrastructureservicestosatisfybusinessneeds.

Experienceconductingbusinessanalysisreviews,recommendingoptions&changesandcontingencyprovisions.;

Experienceprovidingtechnicalleadership,functionalbusinessanalysisandarchitectureexpertisetoprojectstaff,colleaguesandclients.

Servicedeliverymanagement,portfolio,program/projectmanagementandresourcemanagementtomanagethebusinessanalysistoclientsandproviderecommendationsonclients'I&ITbusinessandinfrastructureneeds.;

Allaspectsofbusinessanalysisincludingenterpriselevelandclientprogramareabusinessanalysisandmodelingexpertise;relatedbusinessanalysistools,technology,processes,andmethodologies;businessanalysis-relatedtechnicalandbusinessplanning.

I&ITClusterandcorporatepolicies;,directives,guidelinesandproceduresrelatedtoservicedeliveryprocesses,enterprisebusinessarchitecture,currenttrendsandtechnologiesrelatetobusinessdrivenITsolutionstoprovidepracticalexpertisetomeetbusinessneeds,ensuretraceabilityofbusinessrequirementstoI&ITsolutionsandensurecompliancewithOPSI;&ITpoliciesandstandards.;

Clients'policiesandprograms,businessgoalsandobjectives,plans,issuesandresourcesandlinkagetounderstandbusinessneeds,identifypartnershipopportunitiesandmatchtechnologysolutionstobusinessrequirementsandprovideadviceonapplicationofI&IT.;

EnterprisebusinessarchitecturalconceptsinordertoensurethatrecommendedtechnologiesareconsistentwithOPSstandards.

Softwaredevelopmentlifecycle,softwaredesign,developmentandintegration,databaseconcepts,userinterfacedesignprinciple,changemanagement,qualityassurance,riskmanagement,disasterrecoveryplanning,businesscontinuityplanningtodevelopsolutionsand/orinfrastructureservicestosatisfybusinessneeds.

Analyzingandproblemsolvingskillsto:

Assessclients'businessrequirements,identifybesttechnologysolutionsfromamongalternativestoensureclients'expectationsaresatisfiedinthecosteffectivemanner,bothforindividualissuesandlonger-termoverallrequirements.

Evaluatedirections,trends,standardsandpoliciesinacomplexandevolvingenvironmentusingmultiplesourcesofguidance;identifyrequirements,developoptionsandmakerecommendationsongeneralandspecificinformationarchitectureanddatamanagementissues.

Planning,coordinatingandleadingallphasesofassignedbusinessanalysis,processimprovements,architectureorinfrastructureprojectsorserviceswithinrisk,timeandresourceconstraintstomeetclientneeds.

Ensuringthequalityofbusinesssolutionrecommendationsandimplementationandensuringintegrationwithenterpriseandclusterstandardsanddirections.

Conductingbusinessanalysisreviews,recommendingoptions&changesandcontingencyprovisions.;

Providestechnicalleadership,functionalbusinessanalysisandarchitectureexpertisetoprojectstaff,colleaguesandclients.

CommunicationSkills:

Strongcommunicationskillstopreparedocumentation,includingbutnotlimitedto;reports,reviews,assessments

Abilitytopresentideasandsuggestionsclearlyandeffectivelyandinauserfriendlymanner;maintainahighlevelofcustomerservicetobothinternalandexternalclients

Abilitytocommunicatedesignsanddevelopmentinclearandunderstandablemanner

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📌 Business Analyst - Senior (Ontario)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Ontario