HM Note: This hybrid contract role is three 3 days in office. Candidates resume must include first and last name.
Description
Responsibilities
- Provides a comprehensive range of I and amp;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 clients business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I and amp;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 and amp;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 and amp;IT management and stakeholders
- Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts followup Experience developing strategies preparing business cases and costbenefit analysis
- Experience conducting requirements gathering developing documentation including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
- Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
- Awareness of emerging I and amp;IT trends and technologies
- 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 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 followup Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Business Analysis and ProblemSolving Skills 35
- Experienced in requirement elicitation documentation gap analysis evaluation of alternative solutions user interation/experience design (UI/UX) and making recommendations. and nbsp;(MUST HAVE)
- Experience facilitating sessions with a diverse audience for requirements discovery and analysis using a variety of methodologies (e.g. Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid). and nbsp;(MUST HAVE)
- Work with stakeholders (internal and external) across the program to develop clearly defined epics and user stories.
- Experience in writing user stories in Azure DevOps. and nbsp;(MUST HAVE)
- Gather information on client problems services and business goals/objectives
- Help program understand their needs and translate to design models and concepts
- Evaluate requirements and review options for solution assess cost/benefit of options evaluate alternative conceptual systems designs and potential impact of proposed system changes on existing service delivery
- Recommend approaches and discuss with team and stakeholders
- Translate from technical terminology to business terms
Technical Knowledge and Expertise 25
- Led/managed business transformation/solution design initiatives with a focus on business architecture and and nbsp;user interation/experience design (UI/UX). and nbsp;(MUST HAVE)
- Experience in conceptual design of enterprise data warehouses and extensive experience in data management supporting development teams and nbsp;working on requirements gathering and design documentation
- Understand data warehouse modeling concepts and design principles (Kimball and Inmon)
- Advanced technical knowledge of large hardware and software operations and utilities productivity tools online processing systems webbased technologies and database management systems
- Knowledge of enterprise architectural concepts and processes specifically in the area of business architecture for data warehouses marts lakes (in Azure platform). and nbsp;(MUST HAVE)
- Knowledge of front end webbased technologies and datamining/reportingbased COTS tools (e.g. IBM Curam) encompassing feasibility studies requirements definition analysis prototyping system design implementation testing and maintenance and nbsp;(Nice to have)
- Provide consultation on source to target mapping to ensure business and technical alignment
- Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies familiarity with ITIL Processes for Change/Release Management relational data base technologies use of information retrieval packages using SQL and other query languages.
- Knowledge of emerging IT trends and technologies cloud computing enterprise data warehousing etc.
- Knowledge of accessibility compliance requirements e.g AODA WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA or the most recent WCAG requirements
Organizational and Project Management Skills 20
- Plan develop manage control projects and resolve complex technical design problems
- Knowledge of project management and indepth knowledge of task estimation scheduling and control
- Development of documentation and materials as part of a review and knowledge transfer to other members
- Development of specific activities as part of a review (hand over to ministry staff)and building block approach which build on knowledge transfer and skills development from the previous stage to the next
Communication and Interpersonal Skills 20
- Gather information clarify needs and desired system changes explain system development recommendations explain and provide instruction on new/modified systems and technology
- Prepare business cases systems documentation user manuals and guidelines
- Clarify and discuss systems development options with clients
Must Haves:
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