Business Analyst

Project Overview

Key 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
• 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

Qualifications & Requirements

REQUIRED

• Must be able to work 5 days onsite per week
• 10+ years of extensive experience as Business Analyst
• 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
• Minimum 5 years experience in creating enterprise architecture documentation; expert level in architectural deliverables, including: Checkpoint/Gating Matrix, Logical and Physical Documentation, Logical and Physical Deployment Models, Business Architecture Approach, Sequence Diagram, Data Flow Diagram, Architectural documents for ACT and ARB approvals

NICE TO HAVE

• 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

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Business Analyst Experience - 50%

• 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 assist with the security 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)
• Experience and knowledge on how to develop user stories based on engagements with program areas, and drafting acceptance test criteria for developers and testers. Ability to work with DevOps and agile concepts. (must have)

Technical Experience - 20%

• 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
• Knowledge and experience creating Wireframes, Use Cases, User Stories (must have)
• Knowledge of Large Language Model and Generative AI application

Project Experience - 30%

• Minimum 5 years experience in creating enterprise architecture documentation; expert level in architectural deliverables, including the following must haves below:
• Checkpoint/Gating Matrix
• Logical and Physical Documentation
• Logical and Physical Deployment Models
• Business Architecture Approach
• Sequence Diagram
• Data Flow Diagram
• Architectural documents for ACT and ARB approvals

Key Skills & Competencies

business analysis, JAD sessions, business modeling, use case modeling, data modeling, process modeling, data flow modeling, CASE tools, business process mapping, functional modeling, event modeling, object-oriented methodologies, agile methodologies, DevOps, WCAG 2.0, AODA compliance, Wireframes, User Stories, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Zachman Framework, Service-Oriented design, enterprise architecture, Checkpoint/Gating, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, security, privacy, accessibility, information retrieval, Computer Aided Software Engineering