Senior Business Analyst - Enterprise Data Management Office (EDMO)
TD Bank Group
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Job summary
TD Bank Group in Toronto seeks a Senior Business Analyst to provide delivery leadership for EDMO, translating priorities into defined outcomes, requirements, and measurable business value. You will manage JIRA boards, drive executive reporting, and maintain a product-minded backlog across cross-functional teams.
The role requires strong stakeholder management, experience with Agile delivery, and technical exposure to data platforms and APIs.
Qualifications
- Senior-level business analysis and delivery leadership within EDMO.
- Experience managing JIRA boards, backlog, and delivery reporting.
- Ability to translate priorities into outcomes, requirements and roadmaps.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product, engineering, governance, risk, and data teams to deliver measurable business value.
- Lead stakeholder alignment across complex initiatives and cross-team dependencies.
- Prepare concise executive updates on progress, milestones, risks, and decisions.
- Maintain a delivery-ready backlog with epics, stories, and acceptance criteria.
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Job description
This role provides senior-level business analysis and delivery leadership within the Enterprise Data Management Office (EDMO), supporting enterprise metadata, data governance, data quality, lineage, cataloguing, and data-management capabilities. The role partners with product, business, engineering, architecture, data governance, risk, control, and platform teams to translate strategic priorities into clearly defined outcomes, requirements, delivery plans, and measurable business value. Acting with a high degree of independence, the Senior Business Analyst manages the JIRA delivery board, drives executive-level reporting, applies a product mindset to backlog and roadmap decisions, and leads stakeholder alignment across complex initiatives. Technical exposure is essential. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with solution teams on data flows, metadata models, APIs, integrations, cloud and data-platform concepts, security, controls, and production support, while communicating technical topics through a clear business lens. This role will report to an Engineering Manager, Product Group Technology Lead, or equivalent leader within EDMO.
Leverage specialized business, product, data, and systems knowledge to understand EDMO priorities and drive delivery toward measurable business value.
Demonstrated experience managing JIRA boards, including backlog structure, workflow hygiene, story readiness, sprint tracking, dependency visibility, dashboards, and delivery reporting.
Experience preparing concise executive updates that clearly communicate progress, outcomes, milestones, decisions, risks, dependencies, and required leadership support.
Strong product mindset, with experience contributing to product outcomes, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization decisions.
Advanced stakeholder-management experience across business, product, engineering, architecture, governance, risk, control, and vendor teams.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments such as Scrum or Kanban, using JIRA and Confluence.
Technical exposure to data platforms and integration patterns, including SQL, APIs, batch and event-driven processing, cloud services, databases, data modelling, metadata, lineage, and data-quality concepts.
Experience working with medium-to-complex technology or data workstreams involving multiple teams, competing priorities, and cross-pod dependencies.
Partner with EDMO stakeholders, Product Owners, Data Owners, Data Stewards, engineering teams, architects, governance teams, and control partners to understand objectives, pain points, scope, priorities, and expected outcomes.
Own effective JIRA board management by maintaining a transparent, prioritized, and delivery-ready backlog; ensuring epics, stories, tasks, defects, dependencies, and acceptance criteria are complete and current.
Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, status reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and cross-team dependency discussions, with clear actions and accountable owners.
Develop executive-ready updates and materials that connect delivery progress to product outcomes, highlight material risks and decisions, and avoid unnecessary technical detail.
Apply a product mindset by defining the problem to solve, target users, value proposition, desired outcomes, success measures, minimum viable scope, and roadmap options before progressing into solution delivery.
Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, non-functional, data, integration, security, operational, and control requirements.
Translate needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data flows, use cases, data mappings, decision logs, and traceability artifacts.
Work with technical teams to assess solution impacts across metadata repositories, cataloguing and lineage platforms, APIs, databases, data pipelines, reporting, access controls, and downstream consumers.
Lead stakeholder forums, resolve ambiguity, manage conflicting priorities, document decisions, and escal…
Build trusted relationships across EDMO and partner organizations by creating transparency, following through on commitments, and tailoring communication to the audience.
Maintain clear governance over scope, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, decisions, milestones, and benefits, ensuring that material concerns are surfaced early.
Use delivery metrics and qualitative insights to support prioritization, roadmap planning, investment discussions, and continuous product improvement.
Support business cases, options analysis, vendor assessments, requests for information or proposal, and service-level discussions as required.
Ensure adherence to applicable enterprise standards and requirements across Privacy, Compliance, Risk, Architecture, and data governance.
Participate fully as a member of EDMO and promote a positive work environment focused on business value, quality, innovation, inclusion, and teamwork.
Keep team members and leaders informed of initiative progress, product outcomes, key decisions, delivery risks, and emerging issues.
Contribute reusable practices for JIRA management, business analysis, executive reporting, stakeholder engagement, and product delivery.
Support knowledge transfer, cross-training, coaching, and guidance for Business Analysts and delivery team members.
Collaborate effectively with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, engineers, architects, data specialists, and governance professionals.
Contribute to a fair, positive, and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
Senior working-professional role providing specialized business analysis, product-delivery support, and technology advisory services within EDMO.
Good understanding of data-management capabilities, system components, interfaces, data flows, metadata, business rules, controls, and operational processes.
Advanced JIRA and delivery-management capability, with the ability to convert a complex portfolio of work into a clear and actionable backlog and reporting view.
Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize detailed delivery information into concise status, decision, risk, and outcome messages.
Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to explain complex data and technology topics in clear business language.
Operates with a high degree of autonomy and sound judgment, while maintaining transparency and escalating material issues at the appropriate time.
Influences without direct authority and facilitates decisions across teams with different objectives, constraints, and levels of technical knowledge.
Identifies and works with Leads towards resolution of complex requirements, process, data, integration, and delivery issues.
Undergraduate degree, technical certificate, or equivalent practical experience in Business Analysis, Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
3-5+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, business systems analysis, product delivery, data management, or technology delivery.
Demonstrated hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence in an Agile delivery environment.
Experience preparing materials and presenting updates to senior leaders or executive stakeholders.
Working experience in a product centric team/environment with exposures to various product methodologies.
Working experience with Agile methodology and project delivery.
Working knowledge of data and integration technologies such as SQL, relational databases, APIs, cloud platforms, data pipelines, metadata management, data lineage, and data-quality controls.
Business-analysis credentials such as IIBA CBAP or PMI-PBA, Agile or product certifications such as PSPO, CSPO, PSM, or CSM are considered assets.
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