RQ07740 - 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 reengineering 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 costbenefit 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 nonfunctional 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 followups
  
• Experience developing strategies preparing business cases and costbenefit analysis
  
• Experience conducting requirements gathering developing documentation including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
  
• Excellent analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience leading discovery on projects involving Esribased geospatial solutions ArcGIS Portal ArcGIS Online ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Image Server GIS infrastructure middleware maintenance services applications databases monitoring and tools
  
• Experience leading discovery on projects involving integrated networking technologies Microsoft Azure Oracle Spatial MS Fabric midrange server enterprise storage and personal computer system technologies
  
• 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 requirement assessments.
  
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent followups.
  
• 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 leading technical needs assessment for multistakeholder geospatial solution discovery projects
  
• Experience fostering engagement and developing effective requirement gathering strategies
  

Nice To haves:

• Strong skills on business analyst
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Business Needs Assessment:

• Experience leading technical needs assessment for multistakeholder geospatial solution discovery projects
  
• Experience fostering engagement and developing effective requirement gathering strategies
  
• Experience with business and use case modelling conceptual and logical data modelling
  
• Experience rapidly and succinctly documenting discovery outcomes
  
• Experience assessing client business requirements and identifying best technology solutions from among alternatives to help ensure clients expectations are satisfied in a costeffective manner
  
• Experience identifying researching developing and assessing information related to architecture and data management options policies standards and methods for the purpose of making business recommendations
  
• Experience evaluating directions trends standards and policies in a complex and evolving environment using multiple sources of guidance
  

Communication Experience:

• Experience communicating presenting facilitating and leading client dialogues to reach agreement on technological requirements to meet established business (functional) needs and design solution frameworks
  
• Experience providing advice leading workshops developing and delivering presentations to clients and senior management
  
• Experience establishing successful working relationships with management staff and clients
  
• Experience participating in committees and contributing to project status meetings
  

Technical Experience:

• Experience leading geospatial (Esri) based projects e.g. ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
  
• Experience leading IT solution discovery e.g. On premises vs. cloud provider based solutions.
  
• Experience with business analysis processes tools technology methodologies and modelling expertise to undertake option analysis process reengineering assignments research test and implement systems
  
• Experience identifying and assessing the impacts of new solutions or enhancements on existing services and infrastructure for performance sustainability and robustness
  
• Experience with the product management life cycle developing a product vision and strategy and have led multidisciplinary teams to achieve that vision from concept to launch using such methods as agile
  
• Experience integrating product objectives goals and metrics in order to oversee the development and implementation of largescale projects
  
• Experience with software development life cycles software design development and integration reporting tools database concepts user interface design principles change management quality assurance risk management disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning
  
• Experience with industry trends in user experience design integrated systems solutions and infrastructure
  

IT Public Sector Experience:

• Experience supporting discovery projects in the public sector
  
• Experience navigating the Ontario Government to efficiently and successfully engage with multidiscipline stakeholders
  
• Experience supporting the discovery and design of new IT solutions within the Ontario Government
  
• Experience with policies directives guidelines and procedures related to service delivery processes enterprise business architecture and current trends and technologies related to businessdriven IT solutions