Senior Strategic Business Analyst to support a program focused on modernizing business processes, applications, data, and technology capabilities

S.I. Systems Ltd.; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

S.I. Systems Ltd. is seeking a Senior Strategic Business Analyst to support a program modernizing business processes, applications, data, and technology capabilities in a hybrid role based in Calgary. The contract is 6 months with potential extensions or conversion.

Responsibilities include translating strategy into actionable capabilities, leading workshops, and ensuring end-to-end traceability from strategy to delivery across ERP/SaaS platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Business Analysis experience in large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience with business transformation, process improvement on enterprise initiatives.
• Experience supporting large-scale, multi-year transformation programs.
• Strong capabilities in strategy analysis, business capability analysis, process modelling, requirements engineering, stakeholder analysis and solution evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic objectives and program outcomes into business capabilities and prioritized needs.
• Connect analysis across initiatives to maintain enterprise perspective across programs.
• Support investment and sequencing decisions by clarifying value and impacts.
• Lead discovery with executives, SMEs, frontline users and process owners.
• Develop process models, journey/value-stream views, and business rules.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from outcomes to requirements and testing.
• Support fit-gap analysis for packaged and SaaS platforms, distinguishing configuration vs customization.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, interviews, and decision forums with leadership and vendors.

Skills

Business Analysis

Process Modelling

Requirements Engineering

Stakeholder Analysis

Solution Evaluation

Fit-Gap Analysis

ERP/SaaS Platforms

Value-Stream Mapping

BPMN

Workshop Facilitation

Executive Communication

Negotiation

Conflict Resolution

Traceability

Job description

Senior Strategic Business Analyst to support a program focused on modernizing business processes, applications, data, and technology capabilities

Our enterprise retail client is seeking aSenior Strategic Business Analyst to support a program focused on modernizing business processes, applications, data, and technology capabilities.

Duration: 6-month initial contract with a possibility of extension or conversion

Working model: Hybrid onsite within South Calgary - 3 days onsite

Must-haves:

• 8+ years' of Business Analysis experience, including significant experience on business transformation, process improvement, or on complex enterprise initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale, multi-year business and technology transformation programs.
• Strong experience instrategy analysis, business capability analysis, process modelling, requirements engineering, stakeholder analysis, and solution evaluation.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as ERP or other packaged/SaaS business applications, including fit-gap and configuration-versus-customization decisions.
• Experience defining business outcomes, benefits, measures, and traceability from strategy through delivery.
• Strong workshop facilitation, executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Practical experience with common modelling and analysis techniques such as BPMN, capability mapping, value-stream mapping, journey mapping, use cases/user stories, decision tables, and root-cause analysis.

Nice-to-haves:

• Retail or consumer industry experience.
• Experience modernizing legacy or custom-developed applications and the business processes surrounding them.
• Experience operating in environments with a mix of SaaS, packaged, custom-built, and legacy applications - including enterprise integration initiatives.
• Lean, Six Sigma, BPMN, product management, or change-management experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate strategic objectives and program outcomes into business capabilities, value streams, initiative scope, and prioritized business needs.
• Connect analysis across initiatives so decisions are made with an enterprise perspective rather than project-by-project.
• Support investment and sequencing decisions by clarifying expected value, dependencies, organizational impacts, and trade-offs.
• Lead discovery with business leaders, subject matter experts, frontline users, and process owners to understand current-state processes, pain points, controls, hand-offs, and root causes.
• Develop process models, journey or value-stream views, business rules, and clear definitions of roles and decision rights where required.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from business outcomes and capabilities through requirements, solution decisions, testing, readiness, and benefits.
• Support fit-gap analysis for packaged and SaaS platforms, distinguishing configuration, process change, integration, extension, and true customization needs.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, interviews, working sessions, and decision forums involving executives, business teams, delivery teams, and vendors.

Disclaimer:

AI may be used in evaluating candidates.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.