Senior Consultant-BA

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

Job summary

A technology consulting company is seeking a Senior Consultant-BA to act as a technical and business subject matter expert. The role involves guiding the development and implementation of applications, validating requirements, and providing analytical insights in a financial services context. Candidates should have a background in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business and experience in stakeholder communication. This position will leverage both technical and business expertise to ensure successful project execution.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Systems Analyst or similar role.
• Familiarity with financial services business requirements.
• Knowledge of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) standards.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for applications and platforms.
• Elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements.
• Provide application design and development estimates.
• Communicate discrepancies in business requirements.
• Provide coaching and support to development teams.

Skills

Technical guidance

Business requirement analysis

Problem-solving

Stakeholder communication

Education

Computer Science

Engineering

Information Systems

Business

Job description

Senior Consultant-BA (CREQ125381)

Location: Canada

Acting as both technical and business subject matter expert for one or more applications or platforms, the Business Systems Analyst is accountable for providing technical guidance and specialized support for development and implementation of applications. They work as a liaison among business and technical stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, information, and information systems.

Education: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, and Business.

Knowledge of technology business requirements in a financial services setting.

Key Accountabilities

• Identifies and documents the business partners' functional and data requirements based on a business process description to ensure that the final deliverable coincides with the context of the business operations.
• Manages and documents the translation of business needs into requirements to communicate to the project team activities, resources, and deliverables necessary to meet business objectives.
• Participates in investigations, interviews, and formal or informal requirements gathering sessions to understand stakeholder needs.
• Recognizes discrepancies between business needs and deliverables, when reviewing and validating requirements, and communicates these discrepancies to stakeholders to ensure that they understand and either accept these discrepancies or identify a need to change project direction.
• Analyses technical problems for senior management development teams and business partners in order to identify the technical approach and solution options for the given problem; includes collaborating with project teams to resolve technical roadblocks, performing solution proof of concept (POC), and examining third-party product offerings.
• Provides application design and development costing estimates to senior management that are used in determining business initiative feasibility and priorities, and used by the bank's IT Project Managers for project planning.
• Reviews project documents (e.g., High Level Requirements Document HLRD, High Level System Design Documents HLSD, and application code received from other Technical Specialists, Business Technical Specialists, and Project Managers) to ensure quality, completeness, and adherence to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) documentation standards, as well as identifies synergies between project initiatives to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process.
• Provides technical and application expertise to senior management and project teams, including the areas of governance methodologies and processes, to ensure the architecture and applications are consistent with the design framework, enterprise industry standards, and the BMO strategic direction.
• Provides technical coaching to team members on design patterns, development processes, and application functions to improve their technical skills.
• Manages operational aspects of governance forums to ensure meeting productivity.
• Provides analytical support and insights.