Senior Business Analyst

Job ID: 91443

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead complex enterprise initiatives involving data, enterprise systems, and cloud‑based solutions. This senior individual contributor performs hands‑on business and systems analysis across the full project lifecycle, from pre‑project intake through delivery and implementation. The role sits within the Information Technology Product and Project Portfolio team and supports enterprise system transformation, data integration, reporting and analytics, and cloud platform adoption

What you will be doing:

- Analyze project proposals and intake requests to define business needs, high‑level requirements, expected outcomes, and business value.
- Recommend initiative classification and prioritization based on scope, complexity, cost, risk, and impact.
- Facilitate enterprise solution evaluations across business, data, integration, and technical domains.
- Develop solution options, business cases, feasibility assessments, cost‑benefit analyses, and perks realization measures.
- Support vendor and product assessments, including RFI/RFP analysis, fit‑gap assessments, demonstrations, and evaluation scoring.
- Assess the enterprise systems landscape for duplication, integration opportunities, and alignment with architecture and security standards.

Business and Systems Analysis

- Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, documentation, and traceability on Waterfall and Hybrid projects.
- Produce functional and non‑functional requirements, use cases, process models, gap analyses, and governance‑ready deliverables.
- Identify solution impacts on systems, integrations,



and data structures.
- Recommend process improvement, standardization, automation, and service optimization opportunities.

Data and Technical Analysis

- Analyze initiatives involving data integration, reporting and analytics, data quality, data governance, and data classification.
- Define integration requirements, data flows, and interface specifications with technical teams.
- Support user acceptance testing, validation, and data readiness.

Stakeholder Engagement and Delivery

- Lead workshops and structured elicitation sessions with academic, business, and IT stakeholders.
- Support change impact assessments, adoption planning, training inputs, and transition to operations.
- Work with project managers, product managers, technical teams, and vendors across planning, testing, and implementation.
- Document and communicate risks, assumptions, dependencies, and impacts.

Practice Contribution

- Lead complex analysis workstreams and, in support of the Manager, Business Analysis, guide other business analysts without formal supervisory authority.
- Contribute to business analysis practices, templates, standards, and knowledge sharing.

What you must have:

- Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, computer science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.




- Industry certification (e.g., CBAP, PMI‑PBA, or equivalent).
- Minimum six years of recent, senior‑level business analysis experience in information technology and business applications.
- Business and systems analysis experience in complex environments (e.g., enterprise IT, public sector, or post‑secondary).
- Experience applying BABOK‑aligned methodologies and techniques in Waterfall and Hybrid delivery environments.
- Experience researching and evaluating best practices, standards, and solution approaches used by post‑secondary institutions, government agencies, and other relevant organizations, and making evidence‑based recommendations.
- Strong experience with data initiatives, including data integration, reporting, analytics, or data quality.
- Experience with enterprise data platforms, data warehousing, or analytics environments (e.g., data lakes, reporting platforms).
- Experience with data governance, including data quality, classification, and stewardship.
- Experience with legacy system decommissioning or system transition initiatives.
- Experience with cloud platforms, cloud migration, or digital transformation, including Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, Teams, or similar.
- Understanding of integration patterns, APIs, or middleware platforms in enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with information management and records management principles.

Nice to have:

- Experience with enterprise systems, including ERP/SIS platforms such as Workday Student, Banner, or similar.
- Experience with business analysis tools such as Microsoft Visio, Excel, Jira, Jama, Azure DevOps, Power B

📌 Senior Business Analyst (Canada)
🏢 TEEMA Group
📍 Canada