RQ00185 - Business Analyst - Senior

Business Analyst - Senior

• Pay Rate: (flexible)
• Location: 525 University Avenue Toronto, ON
• Contract Length: 5 Months
  
  

Work Type: Hybrid

We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Ontario Board Of Public Sector Clients. If you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.

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 to understand their requirements
• Plan and execute requirement analysis, gathering, and documentation
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices, and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the project
  
  

Desired Skills

• 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 and business analysis
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up
• 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 to understand their requirements
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices, and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the project
  
  

Required Skills

• High level of experience in business gathering, business requirement documentation, agile methodology
• Experience in Azure, and various Microsoft technologies
• Experience in applying re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost-effective Experience in conducting business analysis at varying levels of details, aligning with Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process
• High level of experience in requirement gathering strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducting feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
• High level of experience in developing processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mock-ups
• Experience in business modelling; use case modelling; conceptual and logical data modelling; process and data flow modelling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects.
• Experience in project monitoring, problem solving and reporting
• Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-ups
• Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations, and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
• 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
  
  

Criteria Details

1 . Requirements Gathering - 30 points :

• experience in planning, executing different methods to collect requirements from all the relevant stake holders (e.g Brainstorming, Focus groups, interviews, etc.)
• experience with different BA tools such as Azure DevOps, Slack, Trello, JIRA, SQL, Excel, Microsoft Teams, Word, or Visio
• experience with requirement prioritization methods such as MOSCOW method.
  
  

2 . stakeholder management: 20 points

• Experience with managing communication and collaboration with key stake holders
• Experience handling difficult stake holders
• Experience with change management techniques
• Experience with planning, organizing sessions with key stake holders
  
  

3 . System analysis: 10 points

• Experience with analysing existing application to understand its functionality.
• Experience with identifying functional requirements from existing system
• Experience with identifying requirement from existing business workflows
  
  

4 . Documentation: 20 points

• Experience with developing Business Analyst artifacts such as Software Requirement Specification, User Stories, Process Flow Diagrams, Decision Matrix, Use Cases
• Experience managing versioning of the documents listed above
• Experience with walking the key stakeholder and supporting project teams through the documents listed above
  
  

5 . Leading the business analysis activities for a project: 20 points

• Experience with managing stakeholders meetings
• Experience with presentations and organizing meeting materials
• Experience with creating, executing and monitoring project plans for the business analysis activities
• Experience with coordinating with other business analysis team members on the business analysis activities
• Experience on progress reporting
  
  

Deliverables

Deliverables Include

• Conduct business analysis on HFO (Health Force Ontario) applications
• Conduct requirement analysis, gap analysis and impact analysis
• Conduct system/requirement and technical documentation
• Conduct the risk assessment and document mitigation strategies to support the compliance with Ontario Health security, architecture, and privacy standards
• Conduct business requirements documentation, create functional requirements document, user stories, use case diagrams and specifications, business process documentation and flow diagrams, mock-ups, and prototypes
• Conduct current/new system analysis
• Support current/new system architecture analysis
• Support current/new system design documentation
• Support identifying existing technology and application security risks
• Support the technology analysis to migrate the applications to Ontario Health Azure environments
• Prepare training materials
  
  

Must Haves

• 7+ years in requirements gathering
• 7+ years in stakeholder management
• 7+ years in system Analysis (existing and new application)
• 7+ years in Business Analysis documentation development (Use cases, Scope, SRS, BRD, User Stories, Project planning)
• 7+ years in leading the business analysis activities for a project
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent in problem-solving
  
  

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