Business Analyst - Senior

vTech Solution; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Canadian IT consulting firm is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead enterprise modernization initiatives. The role involves developing business requirements, user stories, and acting as a liaison between units. Candidates should have at least 8 years of experience in business analysis, with a strong understanding of governance and compliance. This full-time position offers opportunities to significantly impact business transformation projects.

Qualifications

• 8 years of progressive experience in business analysis.
• Experience supporting enterprise modernization programs.
• Strong understanding of governance and architectural compliance.
• Ability to synthesize business needs into clear requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, and process maps.
• Act as a key liaison between business units and developers.
• Conduct current-state assessments and gap analyses.

Skills

SQL

Agile

Business Analysis

Visio

Waterfall

Business Process Modeling

Requirements Gathering

Business requirements

JD Edwards

SDLC

Systems Analysis

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems, Public Policy or a related field

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Business Analyst will lead business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives focusing on transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms. This role involves developing detailed business requirements user stories and process maps to support application modernization workflow digitization and data integration projects. The Senior Business Analyst will act as a liaison between business units architects developers and governance bodies ensuring alignment between business needs and technical designs.

Location: Toronto Ontario Canada

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Develop detailed business requirements user stories and process maps.
• Act as a key liaison between business units architects developers and governance bodies.
• Conduct current-state assessments and gap analyses.
• Support the governance and approvals process through the Architecture Review Board (ARB).
• Prepare and maintain documentation required for project approvals.
• Lead or support stakeholder engagement sessions workshops and user interviews.
• Develop and maintain process documentation such as BPMN diagrams SOPs and use case models.
• Support organizational readiness and change adoption activities.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements system functionality and testing activities.
• Participate in procurement activities including RFx development vendor demos evaluation criteria design and responses analysis.

Required Skills & Certifications

• 8 years of progressive experience in business analysis including work on complex multi-stakeholder digital transformation initiatives.
• Proven experience supporting enterprise modernization programs across one or more domains: procurement financials content / document management or IT service delivery.
• Strong understanding of governance particularly around architectural compliance digital standards and risk management processes.
• Experience preparing governance documentation and leading initiatives through checkpoint gates such as ARB.
• Ability to synthesize business needs into clear requirements user stories and decision support artifacts.
• Experience with workflow / process improvement lean analysis and business process modeling (e.g. BPMN).
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies sprint-based planning and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities coordinate cross-functional teams and deliver quality work within tight timelines.
• Strong communication facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business Administration Information Systems Public Policy or a related field.

Key Skills

• SQL
• Agile
• Business Analysis
• Visio
• Waterfall
• Business Process Modeling
• Requirements Gathering
• Business requirements
• JD Edwards
• SDLC
• Systems Analysis
• Data Analysis

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1