Business Data Analyst

Agilus Work Solutions; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading Canadian recruitment firm is looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join their team in Toronto. This role supports the Digital Banking division and involves collaborating with various stakeholders to drive solutions. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience and strong data analysis skills. This is a hybrid position with a competitive pay rate of $90-95 per hour and contract until October 30th with possibilities of extension.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst with strong data focus.
• Ability to translate business and governance requirements into technical deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic bridge across business stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Support project discovery and execution phases working closely with various teams.
• Drive end-to-end solutioning and estimations.

Skills

10+ years of relevant professional experience

5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst with strong data focus

Experience in financial services or other regulated environments

Ability to translate business and governance requirements into technical deliverables

Proven collaboration experience with Data Engineers, Architects and Developers

Experience with API-based system integrations, including RESTful services and OAuth 2.0

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

SQL

Job description

Overview

Technical Business Analyst – Digital Banking (Fired Up Service Excellence)

Location- Toronto- Downtown- Hybrid

Type- Contract until Oct 30th + Possibilities of Extension

Pay Rate- $90- $95 per hour on INC. +HST

One of our leading banking clients is seeking an experienced Technical Business Analyst to join their Canadian Banking team to support a high-profile initiative – Fired Up Service Excellence. This role is a new position created to support growth and scale across Digital Banking Engineering.

About the Opportunity

The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to support a large-scale, high-visibility project that directly contributes to the success of the Digital Banking Engineering Authority team in Canada. You will play a critical role in ensuring that individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed in alignment with the team’s business strategies and objectives — all while ensuring compliance with regulations, policies, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic bridge across business stakeholders, control functions, technology partners and engineering teams within the Digital Banking unit.
• Support both project discovery and execution phases by working closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Business Ops and PMO teams.
• Drive end-to-end solutioning and estimations in collaboration with business and software architects as well as client application teams (Mobile, Web, etc.).
• Translate complex challenges into technical options and recommendations that influence business, product, and engineering decisions.
• Manage prioritization, solutioning, and estimation of change requests and provide scope clarifications to support delivery.
• Oversee delivery lifecycle to ensure business and functional goals are achieved for each release.
• Maintain and manage engineering backlogs for assigned microservices.
• Analyze non-project work (tech debt, production issues, architectural initiatives) and convert them into executable backlog items.
• Prioritize backlog items from multiple sources in partnership with Technical Product Managers; balance project delivery with ongoing priorities.
• Collaborate with Senior Development Managers on timelines and team capacity forecasts.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for assigned microservices — oversee changes and provide guidance on improvements.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of microservices for internal and external teams.
• Champion a customer-focused culture and strong stakeholder relationships, including digital product teams and business lines.
• Incorporate the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture into daily activities and decisions.
• Promote process improvements to enhance efficiency across project kick-off, planning, execution and reconciliation.
• Foster a high-performance and inclusive work environment.

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience
• 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst with strong data focus
• Experience in financial services or other regulated environments
• Ability to translate business and governance requirements into technical deliverables
• Proven collaboration experience with Data Engineers, Architects and Developers
• Experience with API-based system integrations, including RESTful services and OAuth 2.0 authentication/authorization

Nice-to-Have

• Advanced SQL skills for data profiling, validation and analysis
• Strong background in data mapping, source-to-target specifications and ETL processes
• Recent hands-on experience in data governance, data quality and metadata management
• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a seasoned IT Business Analyst with deep experience in data mapping, SQL database analysis, and working with enterprise banking systems. You’re a clear communicator with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for building effective, scalable technical solutions.