Business Analyst

HM

Note:

This onsite contract role is in office every day at the manager's discretion. Candidate resumes must include first and last name, email and telephone contact information. Client offices are located in Kingston and Toronto, Ontario

Description

Responsibilities

• Prepare and present complex/strategic communications material including issues management responses, proposals, briefing materials, and presentations for senior management decision-making.
• Develop funding packages, business cases, and cost-benefit analysis for business I&IT initiatives.
• Lead and conduct analysis at varying levels of detail in order to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and document the assessments.
• Monitor progress, resolve problems and report regularly to I&IT management and clients’ decision makers.
• Develop performance measures for business analysis evaluation and conduct follow-up.
• Act as a liaison between business clients, technical teams and service providers/partners.
• Lead the development of business requirements for a Request for Bid (RFB).
• Support the RFB process, including development of the RFB, supporting responses to potential vendors/bidders, and supporting the vendor evaluation process.
• Lead or participate in agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning meetings, daily stand-up meetings, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings, backlog refinement meetings.
• Support/Assist Product Owner with backlog prioritization and refinement.
• Document and manage user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Document functional requirements as needed.
• Apply/perform in-depth knowledge of industry standard methodologies such as I&IT project management and development (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative) methodologies.
• Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff.
• Collaborate with business and IT teams to convert requirements into IT solutions.

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Core

Skills and Experience:

40%

• 10+ 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.
• 5+ 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

IT Knowledge and

Experience:

40%

• 10+ 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…