Senior Business Analyst

The OpportunityCompany, Department: Nova Scotia Power, IT Project Management Office
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Type of Employment: Permanent, Full-Time
Closing Date: November 23, 2026
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team. Reporting to the Manager, Tech PMO Strategy, you will be accountable for leading the overall business analysis approach and ensuring the quality, completeness, and effectiveness of analysis on complex initiatives. The role is accountable for translating business needs into practical, technology-enabled outcomes and for leading requirements engineering throughout the delivery lifecycle, including eliciting, analyzing, modelling, validating, documenting, prioritizing, tracing, and managing requirements from discovery through implementation.
Working across both business and technical teams, the Senior Business Analyst facilitates structured conversations, resolves ambiguity, builds shared understanding, and translates business objectives into clear requirements and solution information. The role also supports business continuity planning and related readiness activities, helping stakeholders identify critical processes, dependencies, risks, recovery needs, and continuity requirements.
As a senior member of the Business Analysis practice, the role is expected to apply disciplined analysis, sound judgement, strong facilitation, and clear communication while mentoring others and contributing to consistent business analysis practices across Technology.
Key Elements Of This Role IncludeAccountability: Requirements Engineering & Business Analysis
Lead end-to-end requirements engineering for complex initiatives, from problem and opportunity definition through solution delivery and transition.
Plan and conduct requirements elicitation using interviews, facilitated workshops, document analysis, observation, process analysis, and other appropriate techniques.
Analyze, model, specify, validate, prioritize, and manage business, stakeholder, functional, non-functional, transition, and solution requirements.
Establish and maintain requirements traceability, ensuring approved requirements remain aligned to business objectives, solution design, testing, and implementation outcomes.
Identify assumptions, constraints, dependencies, risks, gaps, and conflicting requirements;
facilitate decisions and drive issues to resolution.
Accountable to lead resolution of complex requirements issues, ambiguity, competing stakeholder needs and cross-functional dependencies.
Assess proposed scope and requirement changes, including impacts to business processes, technology, stakeholders, controls, and downstream deliverables.
Define clear acceptance criteria and support solution validation to confirm the delivered outcome addresses the underlying business need.
Business Continuity Planning & Operational Readiness
Accountable tobusiness continuity analysis and planning activities in partnership with business, technology, risk, security, and operational stakeholders.
Work with stakeholders to identify critical business processes and services, supporting technology and operational dependencies, continuity risks, recovery priorities, and recovery requirements.
Facilitate continuity planning sessions and contribute to the development, review, maintenance, and validation of business continuity documentation and plans.
Assess the impacts of technology or process changes on continuity requirements and lead operational readiness, ensuring relevant needs are incorporated into solution and implementation planning.
Support continuity exercises, lessons learned, and follow-up improvements where required.
Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement
Plan and facilitate workshops, working sessions, interviews, and decision forums involving business leaders, subject matter experts, technical teams, vendors, and project delivery teams.
Create an environment that enables productive discussion, surfaces differing perspectives, and moves stakeholders toward clear decisions and shared understanding.
Translate complex technical concepts into business language and business needs into information that architects, developers, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and other technical teams can act upon.
Lead the presentation of decision-quality analysis, options, recommendations, requirements, trade-offs, and risks to sponsors, senior leaders, and governance bodies, ensuring complex information is clearly communicated to support informed decisions.
Build trusted relationships across business and Technology while managing expectations and maintaining focus on business outcomes.
Process, Solution & Options Analysis
Develop and analyze current-state and future-state business processes, capabilities, information flows, systems, controls, and stakeholder interactions.
Develop appropriate models and analysis artifacts such as process models, context diagrams, data or information models, use cases, user stories, decision models, and requirements traceability information.
Evaluate solution options, trade-offs, feasibility, risks, business impacts, and value;
develop recommendationssupported by evidence and structured analysis.
Accountable to deliver appropriate business cases, opportunity assessments, implementation approaches, and benefit or outcome measures as required.
Consistently apply deep domain and organizational knowledge when identifying impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities.
Delivery & Implementation Support
Responsible and accountable for leading the BA approach, including scope, stakeholder engagement, analysis activities, estimates, dependencies and quality expectations.
Partner closely with Project Managers, Product Owners, Quality Analysts, Solution Architects, technical teams, change resources, and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Ensure requirements are understood and remain testable and traceable through design, build, configuration, testing, and implementation.
Support test planning and user acceptance testing by clarifying requirements, reviewing test coverage, triaging requirement-related issues, and validating expected business outcomes.
Support implementation readiness, stakeholder communications, training inputs, transition activities, and post-implementation review as appropriate.
Practice Leadership & Quality
Accountable for the completeness, quality, consistency and traceability of BA deliverables on complex initiatives.
Be accountable for mentoring and coaching Business Analysts, strengthening BA capability and ensuring consistent application of requirements engineering, facilitation, analysis, and quality practices across the Business Analysis practice.
Promote consistent, scalable business analysis practices and appropriate use of methods, templates, tools, and standards.
Conduct or contribute to peer reviews and quality assurance of requirements and analysis deliverables.
Contribute to continuous improvement of the Business Analysis practice and the broader Technology delivery environment.
These Skills Will Make You SuccessfulEducation & Experience
Post-secondary degree or diploma in IT Business Management, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience.
Must be a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) - IIBA or a Certified PMI-PBA.
7+ years of progressive Business Analysis experience, with demonstrated leadership in complex analysis, BA practices, and the delivery of high-quality business analysis outcomes.
Progressive business analysis experience delivering complex technology-enabled change, with demonstrated experience leading analysis activities with limited supervision.
Demonstrated experience leading requirements engineering activities across the delivery lifecycle.
Experience facilitating complex, cross-functional groups involving both business and technical stakeholders.
Experience with business continuity planning, operational resilience, disaster recovery requirements, or related continuity and readiness activities is strongly preferred.
Technical/Job Specific Knowledge And Abilities
Advanced knowledge of requirements engineering and business analysis practices, including elicitation, analysis, modelling, specification, validation, prioritization, traceability, and requirements lifecycle management.
Strong facilitation skills with the ability to structure ambiguous discussions, manage competing perspectives, and guide groups toward decisions and clear outcomes.
Ability to work effectively across business and technical domains and communicate complex information in language appropriate to the audience.
Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and distinguish symptoms from underlying business needs.
Working knowledge of technology delivery lifecycles and multiple delivery approaches, including predictive, iterative, and Agile environments.
Ability to develop clear process models, requirements documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, decision materials, and other analysis artifacts appropriate to the initiative.
Understanding of business continuity, operational resilience, risk, controls, and technology dependencies.
Ability to influence without direct authority, manage competing priorities, and maintain quality in a complex delivery environment.
Knowledge of organizational change management, testing, implementation, and operational transition practices is an asset.
Commitment to continuous learning, collaboration, and professional business analysis practice.
Experience supporting user training and implementation of IT solutions.
Demonstrated ability to build relationships, facilitate working groups, and collaborate effectively across teams.
Commitment to continuous learning and staying informed of emerging technologies.
We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we’ve listed above, please consider applying.
Learn more about our culture and values
At the Emera Group of Companies, you’ll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Come build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help us to safely deliver cleaner, more reliable energy
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