Business Analyst

Culture Alberta; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision plans

Wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Employee stock purchase program

Paid time off

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Business Analyst to join the BPM team in Canada. You will translate business needs into system solutions, partner with stakeholders, and lead workshops to capture requirements across the employment journey.

You will model processes, analyze gaps, and assist with testing and organizational change management in a decentralized, multi-country environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of related experience in business analysis or BPM.
• Post-secondary degree in business or MIS preferred.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Familiarity with BPM practices and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to translate business needs into requirements.
• Lead workshops and elicit detailed business requirements.
• Model processes and identify pain-points and improvement opportunities.
• Assist with testing, UAT, and defect resolution.
• Support cross-functional programs and projects.
• Adhere to BPM practices and improve guidelines.

Skills

Strong verbal & written communication

Collaborative & interpersonal skills

Self-directed & motivated

Multi-task in fast-paced environment

Team-oriented, cross-functional work

Work across multiple countries/time-zs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or MIS

3+ years related experience

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Microsoft Office

QTest

Job description

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.

Your Opportunity

As a valued member of the Business Process Management (BPM) team reporting to the Manager, Business Analysis for Employment & Talent Management, you will engage with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to translate their business needs into system solutions that achieve business needs.

Your duties will include partnering with stakeholders, leading workshops, modeling processes, identifying pain-points and improvement opportunities, eliciting business requirements, and assisting with testing and organizational change management.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a BA practitioner you will engage project teams to:

• Understand client needs and capture business decisions and requirements in a detailed manner.
• Analyze business processes to identify pain-points, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop a solid understanding of the business processes and systems that comprise the employment journey.
• Conduct workshops to elicit business requirements.
• Participate in refining system solutions and demonstrate system functions/features to business.
• Facilitate and coordinate user acceptance testing.
• Participate in testing activities such as test case creation, test execution, and issue resolution.
• Support cross-functional programs and projects as required.
• Follow BPM practices and guidelines.
• Work with colleagues to improve those practices and guidelines.
• Assist with day-to-day operational issues.
• Adhere to Stantec policies and practices.

As a BA practice proponent you will:

• Follow BPM practices and guidelines.
• Work with colleagues to improve those practices and guidelines.
• Assist with day-to-day operational issues.
• Adhere to Stantec policies and practices.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Required:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated and self-directed
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and multi-task priorities as needed
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to work in a decentralized business model across multiple countries and time zones

Preferred:

• Experience as a Business Analyst in a large organization
• Experience with documentation and work tracking tools such as Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office suite.
• Experience building test cases and performing testing with tools such as QTest
• Experience with waterfall and agile development practices

Education and additional Experience

• Post-secondary degree, ideally related to Business or Management Information Systems
• Minimum 3 years of related experience

**Pay Transparency:** In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part‑time roles will be pro‑rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

**Benefits Summary:** Regular full-time and part‑time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax‑free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short‑term/long‑term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax‑free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

**Primary Location:** Canada | AB | Edmonton

**Other Locations:** Canada | MB | Manitoba

**Organization:** BC-1374 IT Services-CA Corporate

**Employee Status:** Regular

**Management Level:** Individual contributor

**Business Justification:** Replacement

**Travel:** No

**Schedule:** Full time