Maarut Inc -
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East York, ON
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Job Details:
Full-time
Entry Level
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement).
- Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects.
- Act as a key liaison between business units, architects, developers, and governance bodies to ensure alignment between business needs and technical designs.
- Conduct current-state assessments and gap analyses, identifying improvement opportunities across business processes, service delivery models, and digital user journeys.
- Support the governance and approvals process through the Architecture Review Board (ARB), including the development of business cases, checkpoint artifacts, and impact assessments.
- Collaborate with ARB to ensure initiatives align with enterprise IT strategy, principles, and roadmaps.
- Prepare and maintain documentation required for project approvals, including stakeholder briefings, options analysis, benefit realization tracking, and risk registers.
- Lead or support stakeholder engagement sessions, workshops, and user interviews to gather business needs and translate them into actionable documentation.
- Develop and maintain process documentation such as BPMN diagrams, SOPs, and use case models to enable change management, training, and continuous improvement.
- Support organizational readiness and change adoption activities, working closely with program managers and business leads.
- Ensure traceability between business requirements, system functionality, and testing activities throughout the solution delivery lifecycle.
- Participate in procurement activities including RFx development, vendor demos, evaluation criteria design, and responses analysis.
Required Qualifications & Experience:
- 8+ years of progressive experience in business analysis, including work on complex, multi-stakeholder digital transformation initiatives.
- Proven experience supporting enterprise modernization programs across one or more domains: procurement, financials, content/document management, or IT service delivery.
- Strong understanding of public sector governance, particularly around architectural compliance, digital standards, and risk management processes.
- Experience preparing governance documentation and leading initiatives through checkpoint gates such as ARB.
- Ability to synthesize business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and decision support artifacts for technical and executive audiences.
- Experience with workflow/process improvement, lean analysis, and business process modeling (e.g., BPMN).
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, sprint-based planning, and hybrid delivery approaches in the public sector context.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate cross-functional teams, and deliver quality work within tight timelines.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to drive consensus and articulate value.
Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge of government digital standards (e.g., OPS I&IT directives, GO-ITS), procurement processes, and accountability frameworks.
- Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart.
- Exposure to SaaS platforms such as ServiceNow, OpenText from a business requirements perspective.
- Understanding of change management practices and methodologies
- Certification or training in Business Analysis (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA), Agile (e.g., Scrum Master, Product Owner), or Lean Six Sigma, or ITIL.
Core Competencies:
- Exceptional analytical skills with a strong ability to deconstruct complex systems and simplify for business understanding.
- Skilled communicator with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong organizational awareness, with the ability to navigate government or large enterprise structures.
- Proactive, curious, and resilient; capable of leading through ambiguity and working independently with minimal oversight.
- Detail-oriented yet able to see the bigger picture and align work to strategic goals.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems, Public Policy, or a related field is required.
- Professional certifications in business analysis, Agile, or project management are considered strong assets.
- Business Requirements Documents (BRDs): Clear articulation of business needs, scope, and expected outcomes.
- Process Maps and Workflows: Visual representations of current and future state processes using BPMN or equivalent standards.
- Governance Artifacts: Inputs for ARB including impact analyses, readiness assessments, and checkpoint packages.
- Options Analysis & Recommendations: Evaluations of solution or delivery paths aligned with business and technical constraints.
- Stakeholder Engagement Materials: Workshop outputs, persona maps, user journey diagrams, and change readiness assessments.
- Traceability Matrices: Mapping of requirements to solutions, use cases, and test cases to ensure alignment through delivery.
- Vendor Evaluation Inputs: Criteria definitions, scoring rubrics, and summary reports to support procurement decision-making.
RequirementsMust HAVES:
- 8+ years experience leading business analysis activities for enterprise modernization initiatives, including the transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms (e.g., supply chain, procurement).
- Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, and process maps to support application modernization, workflow digitization, and data integration projects.
- Support the governance and approvals process through the Architecture Review Board (ARB), including the development of business cases, checkpoint artifacts, and impact assessments.
- Act as a key liaison between business units, architects, developers, and governance bodies to ensure alignment between business needs and technical designs.