Digital Platform Analyst

Air Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Canada seeks a highly motivated, detail-oriented analyst to join the Air Canada Digital Platform team. The successful candidate will bridge business and technical aspects of solutions, be customer journey–centric, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment focused on continuous product delivery.

Reporting to the Manager, Platform Development, you will elicit and analyze requirements, translate them into functional specs, create API schemas and data models, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT/related field.
• Proven experience gathering, validating, and translating requirements for IT systems.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates business needs of stakeholders.
• Translates requirements into actionable user stories and specs.
• Creates API specs and data models to meet business requirements.
• Collaborates with solution architects and developers to ensure design meets user needs.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Agile experience

Stakeholder management

APIs and data modeling

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/related field

Tools

API specs

Data modeling

QA basics

Job description

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation. Air Canada seeks a highly motivated, detail-oriented analyst to join the Air Canada Digital Platform team. The ideal candidate is responsible for bringing together the business and technical aspects of any given solution. The successful individual must be customer journey-centric, have a passion for the travel industry, have a passion for creating digital experiences, and be comfortable working in a high-paced, high-energy, collaborative environment focusing on a continuous product delivery model.

The position will reporting to the Manager, Platform Development

Responsibilities

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they product owners or end-users.
• Collaborates with project sponsors or product managers to determine product scope and vision.
• Conducts interviews to gather product requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Researches, reviews, and analyzes existing requirements-gathering processes\' effectiveness and efficiency and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Assists in researching products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support development efforts.
• Participates in the QA of in-house developed or purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write user requirements and user stories.
• Translates conceptual user/product requirements into functional requirements in an understandable manner to developers/project team.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and the project team.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders to understand issues and solutions.
• Coordinate with solution architects and developers to validate the design/developed solution meets the user requirements.
• Creates API specs and Data Models to meet business requirements.
• Work with internal development team and different technologies team to design effective programming and software changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of analyst or product management experience focused on IT Systems.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources.
• Experience or familiarity with working in an Agile methodology.
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Proven self-starter with the ability to manage under minimum supervision with input from several internal departments.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a strong customer focus.
• Prior experience with quality assurance is a plus but not required.
• Airline or travel industry experience is a plus but not required.
• Coding or design experience is a plus but not required.
• API spec development and solution design understanding.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.
• AWS solution understanding is a plus but not required.
• Domain experience is a plus point.
• Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

Conditions Of Employment

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.

Linguistic Requirements

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.