sr it business analyst.

Our client, a premier player in the financial and insurance space, is seeking a Senior IT Business Analyst (ITBA) with strong Reinsurance knowledge and Insurance experience. In this role, you will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across business and technology teams—eliciting and translating business needs into clear, testable technical requirements, and ensuring solutions are delivered with strong governance across the SDLC.

This is a hybrid role based out of Toronto, ON, working a standard 35-hour workweek.

Contract Duration: June 15, 2026 – December 15, 2026

Language Requirements: English (Bilingual English/French is a strong asset).

Advantages
Long-Term Growth: This position comes with a high potential for contract extension as well as a pathway for permanent conversion.

Innovative Delivery Environment: Opportunity to work at the intersection of business strategy and next-generation execution, actively leveraging AI tools to accelerate analysis and build reusable BA assets.

Enterprise Exposure: Work on critical, large-scale financial initiatives encompassing reinsurance operations, finance, underwriting interfaces, and data modernizations.

Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Requirements Leadership: Plan and execute end-to-end business analysis using BABOK methodologies. Elicit, analyze, and document functional/non-functional requirements, business rules, process flows (BPMN), and acceptance criteria.

Functional Design & SDLC Governance: Partner with architects, developers, and QA/QE teams to shape functional design decisions. Support Agile/hybrid delivery mechanisms, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, defect triage, and UAT planning.

Data Analysis & Validation: Actively write and execute SQL queries to extract and validate data, map data structures across integration points, and perform root-cause analysis on system behaviors.

AI-Enabled Efficiency: Strategically utilize AI tools to speed up requirements discovery, documentation, and trend analysis while ensuring rigorous adherence to enterprise data privacy and verification protocols.

CI/CD & Quality Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure requirements support modern automation frameworks, automated gates, versioning controls, and release readiness.

Qualifications
7+ years of professional experience as an IT Business Analyst, specifically supporting complex enterprise technology initiatives.

Mandatory Domain Expertise: Robust knowledge of Reinsurance operations (e.g., billing, settlements, treaties, or claims interfaces) paired with broader Insurance industry experience.

BABOK Toolkit Mastery: Expert knowledge across BABOK knowledge areas with a proven background in establishing data mapping, traceability matrices, use cases, and user stories.

Technical & Data Skills: Strong ability to write and optimize SQL queries. A solid understanding of API concepts (REST), interface processing, and log analysis for defect triaging.

SDLC & DevOps Familiarity: Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum delivery models, CI/CD pipeline concepts, automated testing frameworks, and delivery tools like Jira and Confluence.

AI Tools Utilization: Experience leveraging generative AI tools for productivity gains (e.g., structured prompt creation, documentation assistance, summarization).

Education & Certifications (Preferred): Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or related fields. Professional certifications such as CBAP, CCBA, or PMI-PBA are highly advantageous.

Experience operating under financial/regulatory control frameworks (such as SOX or IFC) is an asset.

Summary
We are looking for a highly articulate, technically grounded Senior IT Business Analyst who can bridge the gap between technical architecture and business operations. If you are deeply proficient in the BABOK toolkit, comfortable running SQL validations, and ready to pioneer AI-accelerated delivery methods, we encourage you to apply today!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to View email address on randstad.com to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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