Sr. Business Analyst 26-25119

Russell Tobin; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Life & disability insurance

Employee discounts

Legal support

Pet insurance

Job summary

Russell Tobin & Associates is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a Toronto-based/remote engagement on a Public Sector program. The role demands deep I&T analysis, broad stakeholder facilitation, and end-to-end requirements management.

You will lead AS-IS/TO-BE assessments, document requirements, and ensure traceability across governance and project- gating processes, while collaborating with executives and technical teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience providing business analysis services for complex I&T initiatives.
• Extensive experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, prioritizing, and managing requirements.
• Strong experience facilitating requirements gathering through interviews, workshops, focus groups, and consultations.
• Proven ability to establish end-to-end requirements traceability from business objectives through implementation.
• Experience with current-state and future-state analysis and process improvement.
• Experience identifying and mitigating risks, issues, dependencies and constraints.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation and enterprise-wide change initiatives.
• Familiarity with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology and governance standards.
• Proven ability to facilitate discussions among business, technical, and executive stakeholders.
• Advanced experience with MS 365, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support business analysis activities for complex I&T initiatives and transformation programs.
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, prioritize, and manage requirements across domains.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and consultations to define needs and solution requirements.
• Conduct AS-IS and TO-BE analysis to identify process improvements and modernization opportunities.
• Develop requirements artifacts including use cases, business rules, data models, and specifications.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability using Azure DevOps, IBM DOORS, or equivalent tools.
• Develop governance artifacts: business cases, feasibility studies, risk assessments, executive briefings.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation strategies throughout projects.
• Ensure deliverables align with methodology, standards, governance, and gating processes.
• Translate requirements into design specs and support solution implementation.
• Facilitate decision-making among stakeholders, vendors, and partners.
• Prepare executive briefings, status reports, and governance communications.
• Support readiness, change, benefits realization, and post-implementation evaluation.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Requirements management

Agile/IT governance

MS 365 suite

Azure DevOps

IBM DOORS

Tools

Azure DevOps

IBM DOORS

Microsoft 365

Job description

Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.

Job ID: 26-25119
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: Toronto, ON/Remote
Duration: 146 business days with possible extension
Client: Public Sector
Pay Rate: CAD $80/hr - $85/hr

Must have:

• 10+ years of experience providing business analysis services for complex I&IT initiatives involving diverse business and technology stakeholders.
• Extensive experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, prioritizing, and managing business, functional, non-functional, process, and data requirements.
• Strong experience facilitating requirements gathering through interviews, workshops, focus groups, and stakeholder consultations.
• Proven experience establishing and maintaining end-to-end requirements traceability from business objectives through implementation and operational transition.
• Strong experience conducting current-state and future-state analysis, business process improvement, process re-engineering, and service modernization.
• Experience identifying, analyzing, documenting, and managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation, modernization, migration, and enterprise-wide change initiatives.
• Experience working with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture standards, system development methodologies, and project gating requirements.
• Proven ability to facilitate business, technical, and executive stakeholders through complex discussions, competing priorities, and decision-making processes.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft 365, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Azure DevOps, and business modelling tools.
• Public sector/Ontario Public Service experience is strongly preferred.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead and support business analysis activities for complex I&IT initiatives and enterprise-wide transformation programs.
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, prioritize, and manage business, functional, non-functional, process, and data requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, focus groups, and consultation sessions to define business needs and solution requirements.
• Conduct AS-IS/current-state and TO-BE/future-state analysis and identify opportunities for process improvement and service modernization.
• Develop business requirements, use cases, business rules, process models, workflows, data models, and requirements specifications.
• Establish and maintain end-to-end requirements traceability using Azure DevOps, IBM DOORS, or equivalent requirements management tools.
• Develop and maintain business analysis governance artifacts, including business cases, options analyses, feasibility studies, decision papers, risk assessments, and executive briefings.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure business analysis deliverables align with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture standards, governance requirements, and project gating processes.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and translate business, process, and data requirements into specifications supporting technology solution design and implementation.
• Facilitate decision-making among business stakeholders, executives, technical teams, vendors, and external partners.
• Prepare executive briefings, presentations, status reports, recommendations, governance documentation, and stakeholder communications.
• Support business readiness, organizational change, benefits realization, performance measurement, and post-implementation evaluation activities.

• TPrideGlobal and it's affiliates offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.