RQ09543 Business Analyst Intermediate

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 clients 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
  
• Experience developing strategies preparing business cases and cost-benefit 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&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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates
  
• Experience working in agile / iterative delivery teams
  
• Experience with documenting deliverables (Functional and Non-functional requirements System Requirements Specifications Business requirements / rules Business Process Models Data Requirements / Models (conceptual / logical) Risks and Issues Business and System Use Cases Requirements Traceability Matrices Status Reports Test Plan / Strategies Test Cases etc.)
  
• Proven experience in investigating analyzing and estimating system applications in large integrated complex environments
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Business Analysis Skills:

Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates

Experience working in agile / iterative delivery teams

Expert knowledge/experience in writing detailed user stories

Expert knowledge/experience creating business process maps/diagrams

Experience with documenting deliverables (Functional and Non-functional requirements System Requirements Specifications Business requirements / rules Business Process Models Data Requirements / Models (conceptual / logical) Risks and Issues Business and System Use Cases Requirements Traceability Matrices Status Reports Test Plan / Strategies Test Cases etc.)

Demonstrated experience with JAD/Sprint session facilitation and the ability to interpret business needs to technical requirements

Demonstrated ability in conducting feasibility analysis project scoping and providing project work estimates

Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation analysis specification and validation

Ability to write high quality business cases working with corporate governance bodies and navigating approvals

Technical Skills:

Proven experience in investigating analyzing and estimating system applications in large integrated complex environments

Experience with all stages of system implementation in complex solutions

Demonstrated experience with implementation of business solutions using Commercial off the Shelf solution implementations such as Oracle Siebel based systems

Ability to document requirements using story boarding utilizing tools such as Jira

Experience with prototyping tools to deliver high quality prototypes and mock-ups

Experience with business process mapping tools such as Visio

Soft Skills:

Experience with agile

Excellent analytical problem solving and decision-making skills

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements

Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team project leads and management including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations

Strong stakeholder management skills

Demonstrated consensus building skills

Public Sector Experience:

Experience with Public Sector I&IT Solutions architecture application design quality assurance standards project delivery methodologies and practices

Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications databases and systems while developing cross cluster multi-year business solutions including knowledge of Commercial off the Shelf product implementations with third party vendors

Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service

Working knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)

Knowledge of Simpler Faster Better Services Act to support OPS Digital First Strategy with user centric designs; familiarity with Digital Service Standards and Service Design Playbook