Sr. Business Analyst

Position : Business Analyst Senior

Duration : business days

Location : Kingston, ON or Toronto, ON

Job Description :

Core Skills and Experience :

• years of experience in business analysis and requirements gathering.
• Knowledge and skills in order to prepare and present complex / strategic communications material including issues management responses, proposals, briefing materials, and presentations for senior management decision-making.
• Experience in successfully developing funding packages, business cases, and cost- benefit analysis for business I&IT initiatives.
• Experience in successfully completing business requirements / user stories in government settings or similar complex, multi-project / multi-client organizations.
• Knowledge and experience with information technology providing the ability to integrate and identify IT-enabled opportunities to solve business pressures / needs.
• Experience and knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Zachman Framework including business / information / application / technology / security architectures.
• years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (managing the backlog, supporting or acting as the scrum master, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, creating user stories and acceptance criteria, etc.)

Desirable Skills :

• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
• Strong organization skills with the ability to compile data from numerous sources and synthesize and write up clear, concise summaries.
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
• A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.
• Experience working with unified project management methodology.
• Experience with large complex IT projects.

IT Knowledge and Experience :

• years of experience in business analysis and requirements gathering and translating business requirements into epics and scenarios and creating mock-ups for the stakeholders to review.
• Experience with cloud-hosting and integration of micro-services.
• Proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience.
• Demonstrated excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated awareness of emerging IT trends and technologies.
• In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and I&IT project management methodologies.
• Experience adopting and adhering to unified I&IT project methodology, architecture and gating processes, and standard systems development methodologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of project management policies and IT project approval processes and requirements.
• Highly proficient using MS Office products.

General Skills :

• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
• A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.

Health Care Experience :

• Knowledge and experience with Health related or Health Insurance related projects.
• Knowledge of Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and it’s municipal equivalent the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and their respective regulations.
• Workflow Automation and Decision Engine Experience Knowledge and experience using workflow automation tools such as IBM BAW.
• Knowledge and experience using decision engines such as IBM ODM.

Must Have Requirements :

• years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (managing the backlog, supporting or acting as the scrum master, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, creating user stories and acceptance criteria, etc.)
• Experience in successfully completing business requirements / user stories in government settings or similar complex, multi-project / multi-client organizations.
• years of experience in business analysis and requirements gathering and translating business requirements into epics and scenarios and creating mock-ups for the stakeholders to review.
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.

Strongly Desired :

• Knowledge and experience using workflow automation tools such as IBM BAW.
• Knowledge and experience using decision engines such as IBM
30+ days ago