Business Analyst and Technical Lead

vTech Solution; Saskatchewan; Remote; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions firm in Canada is seeking a Business Analyst and Technical Lead to play a vital role in implementing a new Student Information System (SIS) across multiple colleges. The position involves gathering business requirements, leading testing efforts, and providing technical support. Strong communication skills and experience with Power BI are essential. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a significant project in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis and requirements gathering.
• Experience in test planning and execution.
• Experience with data migration and analysis.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Represent the client in project team and meetings.
• Analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage business needs.
• Document business processes, workflows, and rules.
• Create and execute test plans, including functional testing.
• Build out Power BI reports based on requirements.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Process documentation

Test planning

Data migration

Strong communication

Power BI

Job description

Job Summary

The Business Analyst and Technical Lead will play a crucial role in the implementation of a new Student Information System (SIS) across multiple colleges. This position involves gathering and analyzing business requirements, leading testing efforts, facilitating data migration, and providing technical support to ensure a successful transition to the new system. The role requires strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with project teams, vendors, and stakeholders. Location: Canada, Remote.

Responsibilities

• Represent the client in project team, schedule, working committee, vendor workshops, and steering committee meetings.
• Elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage business needs and requirements.
• Capture the ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ states, documenting business processes, workflows, and rules.
• Work with vendors and colleges on the transition to operations.
• Create and execute test plans, including functional, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Liaison and consult with vendor Power BI.
• Build out Power BI reports based on ad-hoc requirements.
• Prove out and test out of the box Power BI reports and enhance as required.
• Build skill sets within each college to support and maintain BI reports post go-live.
• Work with vendor to migrate data from the current system.
• Define technical requirements for modifications and work-arounds.
• Define and pass on enhancement requests to the vendor.
• Facilitate the definition of base reports and necessary content.
• Facilitate collective naming conventions for data items.
• Ensure that an evolving set of collective business rules are defined and respected.
• Negotiate and collect data values requiring collective input.
• Oversee high-level data load strategy.
• Facilitate establishment of course master for each college.
• Configure system values and add users for each college.
• Clarify testing vs production environment protocols.
• Create common user documentation, including potential training documentation.

Required Skills & Certifications

• Experience in business analysis, requirements gathering, and process documentation.
• Experience in test planning and execution.
• Experience with data migration and analysis.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Power BI.

Preferred Skills & Certifications

• Experience with Student Information Systems (SIS).
• Experience with SaaS implementations.