Business Analyst - Senior

Position Overview

The client is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to provide comprehensive Information Technology (I&IT) business analysis services, supporting business and technology initiatives within the Land & Resources Cluster.

The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, project managers, and technical teams to identify business needs, gather and document requirements, analyze business processes, and translate business and data requirements into specifications for technology solutions.

The resource may also be assigned to projects or initiatives related to Bill 5 – Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act, 2025, as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and conduct business analysis to assess business problems, identify opportunities, and define business requirements for I&IT solutions.
  
• Gather, analyze, validate, and document business, functional, system, data, and non-functional requirements.
  
• Develop business models, use cases, process flows, workflows, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and state diagrams using Unified Modeling Language (UML).
  
• Conduct conceptual and logical data modeling, process and data flow modeling, use case analysis, and business rules definition.
  
• Facilitate requirements-gathering activities, including Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and mock-up reviews.
  
• Translate business and data requirements into detailed specifications for technology solutions, including ETL requirements for data sharing and data ingestion.
  
• Facilitate Agile product backlog grooming, develop epics and user stories, and collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize requirements.
  
• Analyze complex business processes, workflows, calculations, and system interactions.
  
• Identify and manage requirements-related risks, issues, dependencies, and changes.
  
• Develop future-state business processes using lean process improvement principles and support change management initiatives.
  
• Prepare business cases, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses, presentations, and briefing notes as required.
  
• Maintain requirements traceability matrices and develop performance measures to evaluate business analysis outcomes.
  
• Monitor progress, resolve issues, and provide regular updates on activities, risks, and issues to the Client Project Manager.
  
• Ensure business analysis deliverables align with applicable Ontario Public Service (OPS) methodologies, standards, and project objectives.
  
• Apply knowledge of accessibility requirements, including the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related standards.
  

Requirements

Mandatory Qualifications and Experience

Candidates must demonstrate 8+ years of relevant business analysis experience, including:

1. Business Requirements Analysis: Proven experience leading business analysis engagements, assessing business problems and opportunities, and documenting requirements for I&IT solutions.
   
2. UML and Process Modeling: Hands-on experience developing use cases, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, workflows, and business and system functional requirements.
   
3. Business and Data Modeling: Experience with business modeling, use case modeling, conceptual and logical data modeling, process and data flow modeling, business rules, and non-functional requirements.
   
4. Requirements Elicitation: Demonstrated ability to plan and facilitate requirements-gathering activities, including JAD sessions, interviews, workshops, and mock-ups.
   
5. Data and ETL Requirements: Ability to translate business and data requirements into technical specifications, including ETL requirements that support data sharing and ingestion.
   
6. Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile environments and supporting iterative requirements development and delivery.
   
7. Backlog and User Story Management: Experience facilitating product backlog grooming, defining epics and user stories, documenting complex processes and calculations, and supporting stakeholder prioritization.
   
8. AODA Compliance: Knowledge and understanding of AODA legislation, applicable regulations, and accessibility standards.
   
9. Analytical and Communication Skills: Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
   
10. Stakeholder Management: Ability to collaborate effectively with business and technical stakeholders, remain flexible and tactful, align with project objectives, and communicate progress, risks, and issues to the Client Project Manager.
    

Desirable Qualifications

The following qualifications will be considered assets:

• Experience with applications similar to those used by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP), particularly environmental inspections, compliance, enforcement, and hazardous waste management system.