21 Aug
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Accelyst
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Canada
Accelyst
Accelyst is an innovative AI Consultancy that leverages industry-specific AI Agents and leading-edge AI platforms to deliver integrated, secure, and ROI-optimized solutions. We combine deep industry and technical expertise to enable rapid deployment of AI-driven capabilities that augment and automate client workflows.
Why Accelyst?
Join Accelyst to work in a dynamic, client-focused setting on complex digital transformation initiatives. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, leverage modern technologies, and contribute to innovative solutions while growing your professional expertise.
Job Summary
Accelyst is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst, Level 3 to support digital product delivery within an Agile/Scrum environment. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in user experience, product backlog management, stakeholder engagement, accessibility, and digital solution design, with the ability to work effectively across product, UX, development, and vendor teams.
Job Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead business analysis and user-experience activities for complex digital solutions.
- Work within Agile/Scrum and hybrid delivery environments with Product Owners, UX Designers, Developers, and vendors.
- Define product objectives, roadmaps, priorities, requirements, and delivery strategies.
- Conduct stakeholder consultations, user research, interviews, analytics, and usability testing.
- Create and guide development of user personas, journey maps, user stories, workflows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes.
- Manage and prioritize product backlogs, features, enhancements, and change requests.
- Ensure digital solutions meet WCAG 2.0/2.1 Level A & AA accessibility and usability standards.
- Translate business goals and user needs into functional and non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate with development and QA teams on test strategies, UAT, defect management, and issue resolution.
- Provide strategic guidance on usability, accessibility, information architecture, content design, and interaction design.
- Track project risks, dependencies, KPIs, timelines, and product success metrics.
- Prepare executive presentations, status reports, recommendations, and solution design documentation.
- Mentor team members and provide leadership across research, design, product, and delivery activities.
Job Requirement Qualifications
- 6+ years of Business Analysis experience with significant experience designing online user experiences for complex digital solutions.
- Strong experience working with Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies; Scrum Master experience preferred.
- Experience with product backlog management, user stories, requirements gathering, and product prioritization.
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
- Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker, or similar backlog management tools.
- Knowledge of Miro, Confluence, Trello, Microsoft 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
- Experience with design/prototyping tools such as Balsamiq, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.
- Strong understanding of responsive/mobile-first design, information architecture, taxonomy, usability, and accessibility.
- Knowledge of WCAG 2.0/2.1 Level A & AA standards and Ontario Digital Government Standards.
- Strong understanding of design thinking and user-centered design principles.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a creative, user-focused mindset.
- Ability to work independently and effectively within cross-functional teams.
Key Deliverables
- Product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog.
- User epics, themes, stories, requirements, and sprint plans.
- User research and customer discovery insights.
- User journeys, personas, wireframes, prototypes, and solution designs.
- Functional and non-functional requirements.
- Test strategies, test plans, UAT plans, and test cases.
- Product KPIs, success criteria, and metrics.
- Risk mitigation strategies and project status reporting.
- Executive presentations and product decision recommendations.
Location: Remote
Duration: 6–12 Months
Accelyst is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.
📌 Senior Business Analyst, Level 3 (Canada)
🏢 Accelyst
📍 Canada