RQ10923 - Business Analyst - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
  
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.\
  
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.
  

General Skills:

•  Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
  
• Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
  
• Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies
  
• Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
  
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
  
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
  
• Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders
  
• Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up
  
• Experience developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis
  
• Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
  
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
  
• Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
  
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
  
• Experience with a wide range of methods, tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping
  
• Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
  
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 10+ years experience with Business Analysis
  
• Experience with oracle business planning
  
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge with database design (SQL, Server Oracle)
  
• Demonstrated experience developing BI and analytics roadmaps (e.g. Microsoft BI)
  
• Demonstrated experience with statistics and analytical tools; building models, dashboards and development of data visualizations to convey complex statistical analysis using tools like Power BI and R-shiny
  
• Demonstrated experience with design, development, and implementation utilizing analytics utilizing post-secondary administrative data assets.
  

Nice to have:

• Previous OPS Experience or Public sector exp.
  
• Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GO-ITS standards would be an asset
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Core Skills:

•  10+ years experience with Business Analysis
  
•  Demonstrated experience in the development of organizational data strategies and roadmaps
  
• Demonstrated experience with design, development, and implementation utilizing analytics utilizing post-secondary administrative data assets.
  
• Demonstrates experience in the execution of digital product development processes which adhere to Ontario Digital Service standards
  
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to apply data de-identification methodologies to linked client level data sets that ensure that client level data sets meet or exceed privacy protection standards when information is shared in aggregate form with public or semi-public actors
  
•  Demonstrated experience working with and analyzing large and diverse data sets, identifying relationships and themes.
  
•  Demonstrated experience with the creating of detailed plans and accurate estimates toward development, testing, and implementation of project/programs
  
•  Demonstrated experience reporting and documenting
  
• Demonstrated experience with data management, financial and business analysis, database architecture, and information visualization
  
• Demonstrated experience with statistical analysis and modelling, data mining, machine learning and algorithms
  

Other Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge with database design (SQL, Server Oracle)
  
•  Demonstrated experience developing BI and analytics roadmaps (e.g. Microsoft BI)
  
• Demonstrated experience with statistics and analytical tools; building models, dashboards and development of data visualizations to convey complex statistical analysis using tools like Power BI and R-shiny
  
• Demonstrated experience with data warehousing and dashboards
  
• Demonstrated experience developing data extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) functionality for large relational and multi-dimensional data stores
  
• Working knowledge of advanced data visualization tools and techniques (statistical graphics, plots, information graphics) as well as website and SharePoint integration
  

Communication Skills:

• Experience analyzing requirements in order to determine functional and system requirements; able to take concepts and lead initiatives from end to end
  
•  Experience in documenting system design and producing technical specifications and architectural artefacts
  
• Experience working and communicating directly with business stakeholders; being able to provide guidance and advice to ensure the successful delivery of projects within the required timelines.
  
• Demonstrated ability to produce communications products which adhere to Accessibility standards (e.g. AODA)
  
• Strong understanding of challenges and issues that arise in government projects which arise with respect to data and demonstrated ability to drive consensus amongst stakeholders that can support centralized data access and analytic tools for Ministry and sector partners;
  
• Demonstrated analytical problem solving and decision-making capabilities;
  
• Experience in dealing with multiple teams representing various areas in delivering the project;
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills;
  
• Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively with client organizations;
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting strict deadlines; and
  
• Knowledge of industry methodologies, best practices, and standards;
  

Public Sector:

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size and complexity to Ontario Public Service.
  
• Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GO-ITS standards would be an asset
  
• Strong understanding of challenges and issues that ministry may have with respect to data