RQ11298 - 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:

• Demonstrated experience in business analysis to support systems development using a rules engine or business process automation platform
  
• Experience developing business models; use case models; conceptual and logical data models; process and data flow models; use case surveys; test cases; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
  
• Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis to assess client's business problems/opportunities and documenting business requirements
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in business analysis to support systems development using a rules engine or business process automation platform
  
• Experience developing business models; use case models; conceptual and logical data models; process and data flow models; use case surveys; test cases; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
  
• Demonstrated experience in projects using an agile development methodology
  

Business Analysis Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis to assess client's business problems/opportunities and documenting business requirements
  
• Experience conducting policy and business analysis that can be accommodated within existing frameworks and IT solutions to minimize project time/cost implications
  
• Demonstrated experience applying business process transformation and re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative, cost effective service delivery approaches
  
• Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis at varying levels of detail, appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process
  
• Experience developing project approval documents, policy approval documents and regulation change materials and other supporting documentation needed for the project
  
• Demonstrated experience documenting requirements for business rule automation and workflow management solutions
  
• Experience developing and providing input to QA, system and user acceptance testing strategies, plans and scenarios
  
• Knowledge and understanding of policy development and analysis, business analysis and data analysis practices
  

Healthcare Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in a health or clinical context
  
• Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in a healthcare context
  
• Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context
  
• Demonstrated experience in claim adjudication or pharmaceutical context
  

Communication Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
  
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders
  
• A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  
• Demonstrated leadership experience leading small and large teams, sub-groups, committees
  
• Demonstrated experience monitoring progress, resolving problems and reporting regularly to business and I&IT management decision-makers
  
• Demonstrated experience developing and/or supporting the development of training and communication materials in support of large system implementations.