Business Analyst

Akkodis; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading client in data analytics in Calgary seeks a Senior Business Analyst to assist with data and analytics projects. This role requires expertise in requirements gathering and solution design with a focus on enterprise data initiatives. The position is hybrid, ideally commencing before October 1st, for a contract duration of 12 months.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis.
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software solutions.
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize collected requirements.

Skills

Data Lakehouse/Data Lakes experience

Strong business analysis and documentation skills

Agile methodology experience

Ability to liaise between business and technical teams

Job description

Our Calgary-based, large-scale client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to assist with data and analytics projects. This role is critical to our program and requires expertise in requirements gathering, solution design, and stakeholder engagement for enterprise data initiatives.

Role: Senior Business Analyst – Data & Analytics

Location: Calgary or Edmonton (Hybrid – 2 days in office per week)

Start Date: Flexible, ideally before Oct 1st.

Contract Duration: 12 months

Core Skills:

• Data Lakehouse/Data Lakes experience
• Strong business analysis and documentation skills
• Agile methodology experience
• Ability to liaise between business and technical teams

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Collaborate with Data architects and Engineers to document the proposed solutions to meet business needs.
• Create and maintain documentation for data and analytics solutions, products and processes.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements– verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members

Knowledge & Experience:

• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required.
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.

Personal Attributes: