Specialized IT Consultant - Junior

LanceSoft; Ontario; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Toronto is seeking a Business Analyst with strong experience in Agile methodologies and user story management. The role involves facilitating workshops, managing the product backlog, and ensuring clear documentation of business requirements. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps, along with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. This position offers a hybrid work environment with opportunities for extension.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading workshops to elicit business requirements.
• Proficient in creating and managing user stories.
• Experience with user testing and UI/UX collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops to confirm business requirements.
• Manage Product Backlog Items and refine them.
• Act as a proxy Product Owner for the team.

Skills

Agile project methodology

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Tools

Microsoft Team Foundation Server

DevOps

Axure RP7

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Location : Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Duration : 10 Months with Possible Extension

Core Skills - 45%

• Experience in leading and facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user interface design.
• Experience to feed work to the team and dedicated to looking ahead at upcoming work and grooming requirements so that they’re well-understood, documented, and ready to go.
• Experience with Agile project methodology.
• Experience assembling requirements into coherent user stories.
• Experience in managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicating changes to project manager / Team Lead.
• Experience to ensure the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are accurate, well-understood, and documented.
• Requirements documentation experience in the format of concise and clear user stories.
• Breaks epics down into stories and defines acceptance criteria in each story.
• Provides the team with the context they need, i.e., what part of The Big Picture they’re working on.
• Expert in detailed analysis, conversations, and documentation that all user stories call for.
• Experience establishing the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver.
• Meets with the Product Owner to understand the team’s work.
• Story writer experience, making sure the myriad pieces of information discussed during a team standup are included in the stories; details, decisions, and dependencies are documented in the right user story.
• Act as a proxy Product Owner for the team, where the role will answer questions or facilitate decisions on behalf of an absent Product Owner.
• Explain and present very complex technical analyses, options, proposals, reports and recommendations to clients.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to assess clients' business priorities and needs; to evaluate business and technical design alternatives.
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications.
• Experience with user testing; working with UI / UX designer and other business analysts to plan user testing sessions including screening and recruiting, facilitate user testing sessions, document and present research findings.
• Experience in transposing requirements / user stories into content design – preferably using a Client (Content Management System) or DB implemented content.
• Experience working with data sources such as relational DB or Client.

Technical Skills - 35%

• Working knowledge of business system technologies to provide technical expertise and advice.
• Experience with design, development, testing and implementation of systems solutions, and evaluation of software / hardware.
• Experience with Agile project methodology.
• Experience with large project implementations that use content management systems or relational DB as back-end storage repositories.
• Experience with advanced application prototyping using various prototyping tools – e.g. Axure RP7 and above. Experience in the analysis and design of Microsoft Azure Cloud Based Applications and advanced workflows-based systems.
• Hands-on experience with creating and managing user stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps.

MUST HAVES :

• Experience with Agile project methodology.
• Hands-on experience with creating and managing user stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps.
• Ability to discuss with clients, development and operational recommendations given limitations and considerations.
• Writing skills to prepare project reports and presentations to explain analysis and recommendations.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to assess clients' business priorities and needs; to evaluate business and technical design alternatives.