RQ11108 - Business Analyst - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
  
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order 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 within the organization.
  

General Skills:

• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
  
• Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
  
• Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies
  
• Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
  
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
  
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
  
• Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders
  
• Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up
  
• Experience developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis
  
• Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
  
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
  
• Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
  
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
  
• Experience with a wide range of methods, tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
  
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Experience with use of Azure - DevOps
  
• experience with writing user stories and ability to explain to the developers.
  
• experience with Agile development practices
  
• Knowledge of Digital Dealer Registration program.
  

Nice to have:

• previous OPS / Public sector exp
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Business Analyst Experience:

• Experience and actual deliverables with a Service-Oriented design related projects
  
• Understanding of systems environments, business analysis and change management in projects or programs related to integrated multi-ministries’ government services
  
• Knowledge and experience in preparing detailed analysis and recommendations to ensure compliance with appropriate public sector, industry and international standards on security, privacy and accessibility ( must have )
  
• Ability to assess security and privacy issues that could impact developed front-end and integrated systems
  
• Experience in producing business and technical documentation and agreements
  
• Experience with architectural framework system, specifically Zachman Framework (must have)
  
• Checkpoints, TRA, PIA, Component architecture, Design patterns ( must have )
  
• Thorough experience with Logical and Physical Architecture artifacts ( must have )
  

Technical Experience:

• Knowledge of theory and principles of systems design and development, programming concepts and languages, and related methods, techniques, practices and standards
  
• In-depth knowledge of WCAG 2.0 Standards and AODA Compliancy levels ( must have )
  
• Knowledge and experience creating Wireframes, Use Cases, User Stories ( must have )
  

Project Experience:

• Experience with Driver and Digital Dealership Registration services in ServiceOntario portal ( must have )
  
• Minimum 10 years experience in creating enterprise architecture documentation
  
• Expert level in architectural deliverables including: ( must have )
  

• Checkpoint/Gating Matrix
  
• Logical and Physical Documentation
  
• Logical and Physical Deployment Models
  
• Business Architecture Approach
  
• Sequence Diagram
  
• Data Flow Diagram
  
• Other architectural documents for ACT and ARB
  
• Experience with Canada Post module and Payment Gateways