RQ10047 - Business Analyst - Senior

Source Code; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A Technology Consulting Firm in Toronto is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a 10-month contract. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in IT business analysis, demonstrating knowledge in Agile methodologies and business process optimization. Responsibilities include developing detailed business requirements, leading workshops, and collaborating across teams to ensure system improvements. The role requires strong analytical skills, effective documentation, and the ability to lead testing processes. This is an onsite position located at the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience as an IT Business Analyst, with progressive experience supporting medium to large size projects.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and ability to apply them effectively.
• Knowledge of Agile project work tracking tools such as Azure DevOps or JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Work with project teams to develop detailed business requirements and workflows.
• Analyze and document requirements for system improvements.
• Participate in knowledge transfer and training activities.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Business analysis

Technical specifications

Documentation

Collaboration

Presentation skills

Education

Experience as an IT Business Analyst (8+ years)

Tools

Azure DevOps

JIRA

SQL

REST APIs

SOAP/WSDL

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Job description

RQ10047 - Business Analyst - Senior

10-month contract, possible extension

ONSITE -21 College Street, Toronto

Justice Technology Services -Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

Security Level: CRJMC

Scope:

Work with the project teams in developing detailed business requirements, workflows, and related design artifacts. Participate in various working groups, expected to collaborate closely with technical teams, delivery managers, business sponsors and subject matter experts. Resource will be accountable for application of technical proficiency across different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle including Requirements Elicitation, Application Architecture definition and Design; play an important role in creating the high level design artifacts; lead validation for all types of testing and support activities related to implementation, transition and warranty.

Deliverables

• Analyze and document requirements to enhance business processes and define system interface needs across multiple platforms.
• Gather and validate business requirements, design system improvements, and develop specifications and related artifacts in compliance with OPS standards.
• Create detailed use cases, functional and technical specifications, and conduct fit-gap analyses through workshops with subject matter experts.
• Collaborate with the project team to ensure complete and compliant documentation, including business architecture and traceability to logical and physical solution architectures.
• Contribute to and review Enterprise Architecture artifacts at required checkpoints.
• Design and update system and user interfaces as needed.
• Support solution testing by reviewing test scenarios to ensure alignment with requirements during system and UAT testing.
• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix to track deliverables.
• Document the standardized the communication protocol and data exchange format
• Develop and document on boarding toolkit for external clients
• Participate in knowledge transfer and training activities.
• Analyze the transactional reports.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Proven track record working as part of an Agile team where responsibilities include the planning and delivery of user stories in an Agile SCRUM environment.
• Ability to document and analyze business and functional requirements, lead/facilitate JAD sessions and prepare required Architecture Documentation
• Experience working on large systems implementation projects, ideally with experience in all phases of the system development life cycle
• Business analysis skills and demonstrated experience to provide leadership in the creation of business and functional requirements documentation and to capture the data and information needed to document, validate and analyze business processes for the above noted initiatives.
• Using the requirements gathered, the Business Analyst will create Business Cases, Business Requirements Documents, other Business requirements artefacts and testing documentation, update work tracking tools
• Knowledge and experience in building documentation towards production readiness such as support model, SLAs and checklists
• Excellent analytical, logical and interpersonal skills. Hard working and fast learner with self-motivated personality.
• Good analytical, communication skills and ability to work independently and also perform as part of a team.
• Solid presentation, facilitation, interview, and workshop skills
• Strong business analysis skills with proven experience leading the development of business and functional requirements, design documentation, and process analysis for legacy system replacement initiatives. Skilled in capturing, validating, and documenting data and workflows to support effective system transition.
• Familiarity with technologies such as REST APIs, web services (SOAP/WSDL), databases (SQL), cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and enterprise integration tools.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and interface designs.
• Experience collaborating closely with development, QA, DevOps, and solution architecture teams.
• Involvement in system, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) including test planning, scenario validation, and defect triaging.

MUST-HAVES:

• At least 8 years of experience as an IT Business Analyst, with progressive experience supporting medium to large size projects
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and the proven ability to apply them effectively
• Knowledge of Agile project work tracking tools such as Azure DevOps or JIRA
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and attention to detail.