Senior Business Analyst-CORE

OXARO Inc.; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OXARO Inc. is seeking a senior Business Analyst to support enterprise transformation initiatives in Ottawa, ON. The contract role focuses on intake, triage, and feasibility assessments for innovation requests, with emphasis on documenting requirements and business rules.

The role requires 10+ years in business analysis, 5+ years modelling workflows, and advanced certifications (PMI-PBA/CCBA/CBAP). A hybrid work arrangement is offered with a 60-day minimum engagement and a 1-year option period.

Qualifications

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or equivalent certification is required.
• 10+ years as a Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst on enterprise-level transformation.
• 5+ years modelling end-to-end workflows and documenting As-Is/To-Be processes.
• 5+ years documenting data elements, inventories or dictionaries.
• 5+ years identifying interfaces and integration dependencies.
• 5+ years eliciting/documenting requirements including user stories and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Support centralized intake, triage and delivery enablement for innovation requests.
• Evaluate requests against criteria like business impact, urgency, feasibility and alignment with objectives.
• Articulate problem statements, assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
• Assess current-state systems and document debt, legacy functionality and constraints.
• Perform gap analyses mapping transition from As-Is to To-Be states.
• Document data structures, interfaces and integration points with risks.

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements Elicitation

Process Modelling

Stakeholder Management

Education

PMI-PBA

CCBA

BCS CBAP

CBAP

Job description

Location: Ottawa, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 60 days plus one 1-year option period
Security Clearance: Reliability Status

Responsibilities

• Support a centralized intake, triage, and delivery enablement function for the structured assessment and routing of innovation requests.
• Evaluate incoming requests against defined criteria such as business impact, urgency, feasibility, and alignment with program objectives, and recommend appropriate routing pathways.
• Articulate clear problem statements and identify key assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Assess current-state systems, processes, and capabilities, documenting technical debt, legacy functionality, and architectural constraints.
• Perform gap analyses mapping transition requirements from current (“As-Is”) to future (“To-Be”) states.
• Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements, producing Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) and/or Functional Requirements Documents (FRD).
• Develop workflows, decision trees, and process maps that clearly define business logic and information flows.
• Define and document data structures, system interfaces, and integration points, identifying dependencies and associated risks.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, business needs, and delivery artefacts to support governance, validation, and auditability.
• Support validation and testing activities and establish acceptance criteria to ensure outputs meet defined requirements.
• Produce intake assessment reports, delivery options analyses, and enterprise analysis artefacts to support informed decision-making.
• Deliver knowledge transfer sessions and documentation to sustain the intake, triage, and delivery enablement function.

Qualifications

• One of the following certifications/designations: Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA), Certificate in Business Analysis Practice (BCS), or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
• 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst on enterprise-level business transformation.
• 5+ years of experience performing business process modelling for end-to-end workflows in enterprise environments, including documenting As-Is and To-Be processes, decision points, hand-offs, and business rules.
• 5+ years of experience defining or documenting data and information elements supporting business processes, including data inventories or data dictionaries.
• 5+ years of experience identifying and documenting system or process interfaces and integration dependencies.
• 5+ years of experience eliciting and documenting business, functional, and/or system requirements, including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• 5+ years of experience maintaining traceability between requirements and business artefacts.
• 5+ years of experience supporting or leading intake, triage, and feasibility assessment of business or system requests in enterprise environments.
• 3+ years of experience developing data-related business analysis artefacts, including data inventories, data dictionaries, and conceptual or logical data modelling.

AI Disclosure

We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team.

OXARO is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and respectful workplace where every individual feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our ability to serve our clients and communities. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process and welcome applications from members of the four designated groups under the Employment Equity Act: women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.

We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.