junior specialized it consultant.

Do you have experience in leading and facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design? Do you have experience in managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead? If so, this would be a great opportunity for you!

Our client is looking for a Junior Specialized IT Consultant for a 12 month contract in Toronto.

This is an onsite role.

Rate: $379.93 - $418.5

Advantages
• Earn a competitive rate within the industry.

• Location: 5 days onsite.

• Potential for extension.

Responsibilities
• Works in partnership with clients, advising them on information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems, work to improve structure and efficiency of an organization?s I&IT systems.
• The I&IT Consultant may be used to provide strategic guidance to organizations with regard to Information Management & IT technology, IT infrastructures and the enablement of major business processes through enhancements to IT.

• Provides subject matter expertise in their field and highly expert technical assistance.
• The resource will also support CSC release and infrastructure solutions support sustainment activities, urgent priorities, changing needs, or time-sensitive infrastructure upgrades, or other sustainment activities supporting any CSC platforms overseen by the cluster where annual work is required.

Qualifications
MUST HAVES:

• Core Skills:
Experience in leading and facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design.
Experience to feed work to the team and dedicated to looking ahead at upcoming work and grooming requirements so that they’re well-understood, documented, and ready to go
Experience with Agile project methodology
Experience assembling requirements into coherent user stories
Experience in managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead
Experience to ensure the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are accurate, well-understood, and documented
Requirements documentation experience in the format of concise and clear user stories
Breaks epics down into stories and defines acceptance criteria in each story
Provides the team with the context they need, i.e., what part of The Big Picture they’re working on
Expert in detailed analysis, conversations, and documentation that all user stories call for
Experience establishing the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver
Meets with the Product Owner to understand the team’s work
Story writer experience, make sure the myriad pieces of information that are discussed during a team standup are included in the stories; details, decisions, and dependencies, are documented in the in the right user story.
Act as a proxy Product Owner for the team, where the role will answers questions or facilitates decisions on behalf of an absent Product Owner
Explain and present very complex technical analyses, options, proposals, reports and recommendations to clients
Analytical and problem-solving skills to assess clients' business priorities and needs; to evaluate business and technical design alternatives
Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications
Experience with user testing; working with UI/UX designer and other business analysts to plan user testing sessions including screening and recruiting, facilitate user testing sessions, document and present research findings
Experience in transposing requirements/user stories into content design – preferably using a CMS (Content Management System) or DB implemented content.
Experience working with data sources such as relational DB or CMS

• Technical Skills:

Working knowledge of business system technologies to provide technical expertise and advice
Experience with design, develop, test and implement systems solutions, and evaluate software/ hardware
Experience with Agile project methodology
Experience with large projects implementation that use content management systems or relational DB as back-end storage repositories
Experience with advanced application prototyping using various prototyping tools – e.g. Axure RP7 and above Experience in the analysis and design of Microsoft Azure Cloud Based Applications and advanced workflows based systems.
Hands-on experience with creating and managing user stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps

• Communication Skills:
Strong communication, consultation and interpersonal skills to determine client needs;
Strong collaboration skills, proven experience of working with solution development, business area and operational departments to ensure all day-to-day priorities/issues are addressed in a timely manner
Explain technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences;
Establish effective working relationships with I&IT management, clients, internal and external partners/ stakeholders and project staff
Communication skills to discuss client requirements among other technical team members;
To discuss of systems development options and technical processes among project team;
To discuss with clients, development and operational recommendations given limitations and considerations Writings kills to prepare project reports and presentations to explain analysis and recommendations;
To prepare business cases for recommended approach to systems development or acquisitions;
To prepare systems documentation and manuals;
To prepare metrics and dashboard reports; and,
To prepare research finding summary reports.

Summary
If you are interested in the Junior Specialized IT Consultant, please apply online at Qualified candidates will be contacted.

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