Business Systems Analyst

Electric Mind Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Electric Mind is a fast-growing advisory and digital engineering firm that helps clients turn strategy into results. We partner with scaling startups and global enterprises to reduce complexity and unlock durable value.

The role supports analysts and cross-functional teams, translating business needs into testable requirements, and guiding delivery from scoping through to deployment. You’ll sharpen your consulting craft while building Electric Mind’s Advisory practice.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of business analysis experience.
• Familiarity with SDLC and Agile practices.
• Experience with UML or BPMN diagrams.
• Experience with data mapping and modeling.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to understand business objectives and translate them into clear, testable system and functional requirements.
• Support end-to-end delivery by clarifying requirements throughout development, testing, and deployment.
• Orchestrate the backlog by prioritizing and refining requirements, and writing quality user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Elicit, analyze, and document requirements across applications, data, integrations, and workflows, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical design.
• Analyze current and future-state systems, processes, and data flows to identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, and technical leads to validate feasibility, surface trade-offs, and support solution design decisions.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business and technical stakeholders to drive shared understanding of system behaviour, constraints, and delivery approach.
• Ensure solution quality by supporting test planning, validating requirements against delivered functionality, and confirming production readiness.
• Enable effective agile delivery by facilitating ceremonies, supporting sprint planning, and promoting continuous improvement.
• Identify and manage scope, timeline, and technical risks, escalating issues and supporting resolution to keep delivery on track

Skills

Business analysis

SDLC & Agile

UML / BPMN

Data modeling

SQL / Tableau

Communication

Facilitation

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

Electric Mind is where strategy meets action. Our team helps organizations cut through complexity—aligning business ambition with technology execution to unlock real, lasting change. You’ll work alongside curious, driven people tackling high-impact challenges for everyone from scaling startups to global enterprises. Each engagement is different, pushing you to learn, adapt, and grow.

The Role

You bring clarity to complex challenges and turn uncertainty into forward momentum. In this role, you’ll facilitate conversations that surface what truly matters, apply structured analysis to sharpen thinking, and translate insight into actionable recommendations. Working side by side with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, you’ll shape strategies and solutions that improve performance, reduce costs, drive growth, and mitigate risk.

You won’t just define the path—you’ll help deliver it, supporting requirements definition and guiding execution to ensure the impact is meaningful, durable, and built to last.

What you'll Do

• Partner with clients to understand business objectives and translate them into clear, testable system and functional requirements


• Support end-to-end delivery by clarifying requirements throughout development, testing, and deployment


• Orchestrate the backlog by prioritizing and refining requirements, and writing quality user stories with acceptance criteria


• Elicit, analyze, and document requirements across applications, data, integrations, and workflows, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical design


• Analyze current and future-state systems, processes, and data flows to identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and optimization opportunities


• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, and technical leads to validate feasibility, surface trade-offs, and support solution design decisions


• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business and technical stakeholders to drive shared understanding of system behaviour, constraints, and delivery approach


• Ensure solution quality by supporting test planning, validating requirements against delivered functionality, and confirming production readiness


• Enable effective agile delivery by facilitating ceremonies, supporting sprint planning, and promoting continuous improvement


• Identify and manage scope, timeline, and technical risks, escalating issues and supporting resolution to keep delivery on track

What You'll Bring

• Currently enrolled in a business and/or technology major with a strong/passionate interest in management consulting


• 2+ years of business analysis and / or business systems analysis experience


• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for SDLC & Agile approaches to software development


• Experience with use case / sequence diagrams (UML) and / or process modeling (BPMN data flow diagrams)


• Experience with data mapping, data modeling or handling data (SQL, Tableau, etc.)


• Familiarity with systems and integration patterns (e.g. REST basics, batch vs. real-time, event based processing)


• Ability to consolidate diverse business requirements and manage them using requirements tooling (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps)


• Clear, confident communication—whether in a workshop, a deck, or a stakeholder discussion


• Strong facilitation, prioritization, planning, organization and problem-solving skills

What You'll Gain

• You’ll be part of high-stakes conversations that shape transformation agendas and business outcomes. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, sharpen your consulting craft, and expand your impact across industries and challenges. Along the way, you’ll help build Electric Mind’s Advisory practice—leaving your mark not just on client work, but on how we grow

About Electric Mind

Electric Mind is a fast-growing, AI-native advisory and digital engineering firm built for those who want to shape the future, not just watch it happen.

We blend premium strategy expertise with cutting-edge AI-centric engineering to solve complex, meaningful problems for industry-leading clients.

We pride ourselves on a high-touch delivery model and a culture that values diverse talent, innovation, and true client partnership — creating an environment where your ideas matter and your impact is visible.

If you’re looking for a place where you can grow fast, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and help build a company scaling its capabilities and global footprint at speed — Electric Mind is the place to ignite your career. The future is bright!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.