Position: Business Analyst
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to provide a
comprehensive range of business analysis services for organizations with
diverse business and technology needs. The successful candidate will work
closely with stakeholders, subject matter experts, project teams, and
technology partners to gather, analyze, document, and validate business
requirements while supporting the delivery of effective technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis
- Provide comprehensive business
analysis services across a variety of business and technology initiatives.
- Work with stakeholders and
subject matter experts to gather, document, and analyze business requirements.
- Lead and conduct business
analysis activities to assess business challenges and opportunities and
document requirements to support solution delivery.
- Prepare and advise on business
analysis policies, processes, best practices, and standards.
- Apply business process
re-engineering concepts to support service improvements and cost-effective
delivery approaches.
- Conduct business analysis
throughout all project phases using appropriate levels of detail.
- Develop business strategies,
business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and feasibility studies.
- Facilitate requirements
gathering activities including workshops, interviews, and requirements
sessions.
- Perform business modeling, use
case modeling, data modeling, process mapping, data flow modeling, business
rules definition, and non-functional requirements analysis.
- Monitor project progress,
identify and resolve issues, and provide status reporting to management and
stakeholders.
- Develop performance measures
and traceability matrices and conduct follow-up evaluations.
Agile Delivery & Product Backlog Management
- Support project teams by
proactively grooming and preparing upcoming work.
- Assemble requirements into
clear and actionable user stories.
- Manage and refine Product
Backlog Items and communicate changes to project leadership.
- Break epics into detailed user
stories and define acceptance criteria.
- Ensure requirements are
clearly documented and ready for development.
- Provide project teams with
business context and strategic alignment.
- Maintain backlog integrity as
the source of truth for delivery teams.
- Collaborate closely with
Product Owners and project stakeholders.
- Ensure decisions,
dependencies, and discussions are properly documented within user stories.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Conduct stakeholder engagement
activities and prepare supporting documentation including presentations and
briefing materials.
- Explain complex technical
analyses, recommendations, and options to both technical and non-technical
audiences.
- Establish effective working
relationships with stakeholders, partners, project teams, and leadership.
- Support user testing
activities, including planning, recruitment coordination, facilitation,
documentation, and presentation of findings.
Required Qualifications
Core Skills
- Experience supporting Agile
project delivery methodologies.
- Experience grooming
requirements and preparing work for development teams.
- Strong experience writing and
managing user stories.
- Experience managing and
refining Product Backlog Items.
- Experience documenting
requirements in clear and concise user story formats.
- Experience breaking epics into
detailed stories and defining acceptance criteria.
- Advanced analytical,
problem-solving, and business analysis capabilities.
- Strong understanding of
requirements management and backlog governance.
- Experience supporting user
testing activities and presenting findings.
Technical Skills
- Working knowledge of business
systems technologies.
- Knowledge of systems design,
development, testing, implementation, and evaluation.
- Proficiency with SQL database
querying.
- Knowledge of API design,
integration, and technical requirements definition.
- Hands-on experience using
Azure DevOps for user story and backlog management.
- Experience leveraging AI tools
for business analysis and requirements documentation.
Communication Skills
- Strong communication,
consultation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to communicate
technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience discussing client
requirements and systems development options.
- Strong presentation and
documentation skills.
- Experience preparing project
reports, business cases, presentations, manuals, dashboards, and research
summaries.
- Ability to build productive
working relationships across multiple stakeholder groups.
Additional Qualifications
- Knowledge of Information
Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
- Experience with business
process mapping, business functional modeling, and business event modeling.
- Experience working within
structured, object-oriented, and Agile methodologies.
- Experience developing
performance measures and evaluation frameworks.
- Knowledge of Accessibility for
Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) requirements and standards.
Preferred Experience
- Experience within the public
sector.
- Experience supporting
education-related environments.
- Experience using information
retrieval tools and packages.
About Symbiotic Digital.
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that
solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do
for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve
customers in two ways, we provide:
Digital Experts: IT Consulting
expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
Recruitment: Find The Right
People You Need
Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital
provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff
needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most
reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them
staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our
proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100%
Indigenous owned company.
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