Senior Consultant-BA

Virtusa; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in Toronto is seeking a Senior Consultant-BA to provide technical guidance and support for applications within a financial services context. This role involves eliciting and analyzing business requirements, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring adherence to quality standards during project execution. The ideal candidate will have a background in Computer Science or Engineering and experience in a similar role, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Systems Analyst in a financial services setting.
• Ability to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements.
• Familiarity with Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) standards.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a liaison among business and technical stakeholders.
• Documenting functional and data requirements.
• Providing application design and development costing estimates.
• Conducting requirements gathering sessions.
• Reviewing project documents for quality and adherence to standards.

Skills

Technical and business subject matter expertise

Requirements analysis

Problem-solving

Communication

Technical coaching

Education

Computer Science

Engineering

Information Systems

Business

Job description

Job Description - Senior Consultant-BA (CREQ125381)

Job Description

Senior Consultant-BA - ( CREQ125381 )

Description

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 this includes collaborating with project teams to resolve technical road-blocks, 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 banks 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 in order 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, for purposes of ensuring 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 in order to improve their technical skills
• Manages operational aspects of governance forums to ensure meeting productivity
• Provides analytical support and insights