Senior Business Analyst

Randstad Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sprint autonomy

Azure DevOps exposure

Cross-functional collaboration

Modern tech stack

Job summary

Randstad Canada is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to own the requirements lifecycle for enterprise IT initiatives in Toronto. You will bridge business stakeholders and engineering teams, translating needs into clear functional requirements and audit-ready user stories. This onsite role requires strong analytical and communication skills.

Contract position for 8 months, with Agile delivery, API and data integration focus, and steady development velocity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive IT business analysis experience.
• Strong experience in Agile delivery and backlog grooming.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with API design, data modeling, and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and manage forward-looking delivery pipelines and requirements grooming.
• Own and refine PBIs within software management ecosystems and communicate scope changes.
• Translate business criteria into concise user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Lead JAD sessions, workshops, and interviews with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Model data flow, API endpoints, and integration logic for decoupled systems.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices and performance metrics.

Skills

Agile methodology

Azure DevOps

SQL

API integration

User stories

Stakeholder facilitation

Tools

Visio

PowerDesigner

Job description

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Business Analyst to take technical ownership of the requirements lifecycle and backlog grooming operations for enterprise I&IT initiatives. In this role, you will act as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical engineering teams, looking ahead to anticipate, analyze, and map complex business dependencies. Operating natively within an Agile framework, you will translate abstract operational needs into crisp functional requirements, design secure integration specifications, and establish steady development velocity by ensuring downstream engineering squads have well-documented, audit-ready user stories.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 8-month contract.

Advantages

• High-Impact Sprint Autonomy: Drive technical direction by controlling the flow, framing, and definition of ready work for the development team.
• Advanced Technology Sandbox: Deepen your expertise in technical business analysis, utilizing Azure DevOps, complex SQL structures, and API architecture specifications.
• Cross-Functional Strategic Seat: Maximize your visibility by facilitating alignment between technical engineering squads, executive project managers, and business headers.
• Pure Agile Execution: Solidify your resume inside a mature, high-velocity Scrum framework focused on rapid iteration and clean software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Forward-Looking Requirements Grooming: Formulate and manage forward-looking delivery pipelines, actively grooming requirements and anticipating system dependencies so that upcoming development items are well-understood, fully documented, and ready for execution.
• Agile Product Backlog Stewardship: Own, structure, and continually refine Product Backlog Items (PBIs) within software management ecosystems, communicating scope alterations to Project Managers and Team Leads.
• User Story Engineering: Translate convoluted business and functional criteria into concise, high-quality user stories backed by clear acceptance criteria and technical dependency maps.
• Stakeholder Elicitation & Workshop Leadership: Conduct deep-dive requirements discovery via Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, focus groups, user mockups, and structured interviews with cross-functional business stakeholders.
• Data & API Integration Modeling: Construct technical integration requirements, mapping API endpoints, data communication paths, and functional logic specifications for decoupled systems.
• Relational Database Querying: Write precise SQL data queries to retrieve, profile, and validate back-end data elements, supporting source-to-target mapping and data integrity checks.
• Comprehensive Business Modeling: Build vertically integrated conceptual designs, including use case models, business functional models, process flow maps, and non-functional requirements definitions.
• Platform Management Custom Tooling: Leverage Azure DevOps to create, monitor, trace, and manage enterprise user stories and task hierarchies through all deployment check-gates.
• Feasibility & Architecture Alignment: Perform structural analysis to diagnose operational problems, preparing data-driven business cases, feasibility studies, and cost-benefit assessments aligned with enterprise IT gating standards.
• Performance Tracking & Traceability: Develop and enforce requirements traceability matrices and performance metrics to evaluate business analysis outcomes and support post-implementation follow-up.

Qualifications

• Enterprise Business Analysis Seniority: 8+ years of progressive professional experience leading full-lifecycle IT business analysis, process re-engineering, and requirements engineering within multi-tier environments.
• Agile Methodologies Specialization: Strong practical experience operating within Agile development lifecycles, with proven success assembling complex user needs into highly coherent, sprint-ready user stories (Strictly Required).
• Backlog Engineering Depth: Demonstrated background looking ahead to prioritize, groom, and refine Product Backlog Items (PBIs) inside mature development pipelines (Strictly Required).
• Azure DevOps Tool Stack Fluency: Direct, hands-on experience structuring, tracking, and maintaining user stories and requirements traceability matrices natively within Azure DevOps (Strictly Required).
• Technical Integration & API Literacy: Proven capability defining technical requirements for API designs, system integrations, and cross-platform communication boundaries.
• Relational Database Prowess: Practical capability writing SQL queries to extract, profile, and validate data tables across relational enterprise systems.
• Structured Modeling Mastery: Advanced proficiency utilizing CASE modeling tools or diagram software (such as Visio or PowerDesigner) to map out business functional models and end-to-end data process flows.
• Soft Skills: Superior consultative communication, negotiation, and relationship-management capabilities, with an established record of explaining systems development options to technical engineers and non-technical business clients alike.

Nice to Have

• Prior professional experience delivering business architecture models or navigating formal architecture gating reviews within a highly regulated corporate framework or public sector infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of digital inclusion regulations and information management principles (such as AODA or WCAG standards).

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to [e-mail] to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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