Business Analyst

Focus Systems Inc.; Saskatchewan; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Focus Systems is seeking an experienced Business Analyst – Auto Fund Delivery to support planned delivery and production support for the DRIVE Platform.

The role involves Agile delivery, stakeholder engagement, requirements refinement, testing, and collaboration with a DRIVE Product Team in a modern .NET microservices environment hosted on Azure DevOps and Application Insights.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in Agile product delivery.
• Experience in Scrum and Scrum Master duties.
• Experience with domain-driven design and event-based microservices.
• Proficient with .NET, Git, and Visual Studio.
• Familiar with Azure DevOps and Application Insights.
• Experience testing, requirements refinement, and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Gather stakeholder feedback and translate needs into actionable requirements.
• Define requirements, acceptance criteria, and documentation for delivery.
• Support discovery, planning, prioritization, and dependency analysis.
• Assist with testing, delivery coordination, and production support.
• Track progress, risks, issues, and competing priorities.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and Scrum Master duties as needed.
• Foster collaboration across business and technical stakeholders.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder facilitation

Agile product delivery

Scrum

Communication

Scrum Master responsibilities

Tools

Domain-Driven Design

Event-based architecture

Microservices

.NET environments (Git + Visual Studio)

Azure DevOps

Application Insights

Jest

Automated pipelines

Azure authentication platforms

Job description

Focus Systems is seeking an experienced Business Analyst – Auto Fund Delivery to support planned delivery, operational priorities, and enhanced production support for the custom-built Auto Fund DRIVE Platform.

If you have strong experience supporting Agile product delivery, stakeholder engagement, requirements refinement, testing, and modern event-based microservices environments, this is an opportunity to add capacity to a DRIVE Product Team and help reduce delivery risk across competing priorities.

• Location: Remote within Canada; Saskatchewan-based candidates preferred
• Contract: December 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027, with possible extension
• Industry: Insurance / Auto Fund / Digital Product Delivery
• Work Arrangement: Remote; availability during standard Saskatchewan business hours preferred

Role Overview

The Business Analyst – Auto Fund Delivery will support a DRIVE Product Team operating within a product-domain structure. The DRIVE Platform uses an event-based .NET microservices architecture, modern development standards, Azure DevOps, automated delivery practices, Azure authentication, and production monitoring through Application Insights.

The successful candidate will work alongside a business analysis counterpart and collaborate with product, business, and technical stakeholders. The engagement combines business analysis, testing support, delivery coordination, and Scrum Master duties as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather stakeholder feedback and translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Define and refine requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation for product delivery.
• Support discovery, planning, prioritization, and analysis of delivery options and dependencies.
• Assist with solution delivery, testing, operational priorities, and enhanced production support.
• Track and analyze project progress, delivery outcomes, risks, issues, and competing priorities.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and perform Scrum Master duties as needed.
• Help remove delivery barriers, strengthen collaboration, and promote continuous improvement.
• Work with business and technical stakeholders in an event-based, domain-driven .NET microservices environment.

Mandatory Qualifications

• At least three (3) years of experience with the following technologies and delivery practices:
• Scrum
• Domain-Driven Design
• Event-based architecture
• Microservices
• .NET environments using Git and Visual Studio
• Azure-based authentication platforms
• Application Insights for monitoring and alerting
• Jest for automated testing
• Automated development pipelines

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, refinement, and stakeholder facilitation skills.
• Experience supporting testing, issue analysis, and delivery within an Agile product team.
• Ability to work effectively with both business stakeholders and technical delivery resources.
• Ability to facilitate Scrum ceremonies and take on Scrum Master responsibilities when needed.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Experience and Assets

• Based in Saskatchewan and available during standard Saskatchewan business hours.
• Insurance industry experience.
• Prior Agile delivery team experience supporting an event-based microservices application.