Senior Business Analyst Client:

Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

Location:

St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid – 50% onsite at OCIO Headquarters, 40 Higgins Line, St. John’s

Contract Duration:

October 26, 2026 – March 31, 2027, with potential extension

Hours:

35 hours per week | Full-time, 100% allocation

Engagement Type:

Skilled Services Assignment

Closing Date:

October 19, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. Newfoundland time

Position Overview

The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, is seeking an experienced

Senior Business Analyst

to support the Motor Vehicle and Drivers Solution (MVAD), a large-scale business and technology modernization initiative.

The project involves transitioning legacy Motor Registration Division (MRD) and Ticket Management System (TMS) applications and business operations from mainframe technology to a unified modern platform supporting driver licensing, vehicle registration, compliance, ticketing, revenue, and customer management functions.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Project Manager, Delivery Manager, business representatives, technical teams, and other stakeholders to validate business requirements, facilitate business process transformation, support solution configuration, coordinate data migration and validation, lead testing activities, and assist with change management and organizational readiness.

This role requires a hands-on Senior Business Analyst with demonstrated experience in complex application modernization projects, requirements management, data migration, testing,



stakeholder engagement, and business process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Analysis and Requirements Management

Lead the planning, facilitation, execution, and documentation of business requirements and business process validation workshops, meetings, and stakeholder interviews.

Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage business, functional, and system requirements.

Validate the MVAD solution design from a business perspective and ensure alignment with departmental operational needs and project objectives.

Conduct fit-gap analysis between existing MRD and TMS business processes and the new MVAD platform.

Develop and maintain business requirements documents, use cases, workflows, business process models, and other standard project artifacts.

Identify business and functional gaps, dependencies, risks, and opportunities for process improvement.

Support the configuration of the new system to meet client requirements, including user security settings and business rules.

2. Application Modernization and Business Process Transformation

Support complex, large-scale modernization initiatives involving the replacement or transformation of legacy business applications.

Analyze existing business processes and workflows and map them to the capabilities of the modernized MVAD solution.





Facilitate business process redesign and ensure that operational requirements are appropriately reflected in the target solution.

Support the transition from legacy mainframe-based systems to the modernized platform.

Collaborate with technical teams to understand application functionality, system workflows, integrations, and business logic.

Identify and document gaps between legacy processes, data structures, and the target solution.

Apply change impact analysis to support effective implementation of new processes and system functionality.

3. Data Migration, Mapping, and Validation

Support end-to-end data migration activities, including data cleansing, conversion, mapping, validation, reconciliation, and migration readiness.

Work with business and technical stakeholders to identify data quality issues, inconsistencies, gaps, and conversion requirements.

Document source-to-target data mappings, migration rules, business validation requirements, and data transformation logic.

Assess legacy data structures and support alignment with the target platform’s data model.

Coordinate business validation of migrated data and verify that data meets established business rules and quality standards.

Support data reconciliation, defect identification, issue resolution, and migration sign-off activities.

Assist with migration planning and readiness activities to support the project’s modernization and go-live objectives.

4. Testing Strategy, Planning, and Execution

Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test scripts based on ap

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