Senior Business Analyst
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Description
Position Overview
The Government Services Integration Cluster (GSIC), within the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support enterprise platform capabilities, system integrations, and the onboarding of new government services.
The successful candidate will lead business analysis activities for large-scale digital and I&IT initiatives, working closely with business and program areas, ministry partners, end users, product teams, architects, UX designers, developers, privacy and security specialists, testers, and operational stakeholders.
The Senior Business Analyst will assess current-state processes, define future-state business and system requirements, identify opportunities to leverage reusable enterprise platform capabilities, and ensure that new services meet business, technical, operational, privacy, security, and accessibility requirements.
The role requires a strong understanding of Agile or hybrid delivery environments, requirements lifecycle management, stakeholder facilitation, integration analysis, and end-to-end requirements traceability from initial discovery through design, development, testing, release, and implementation.
Key Responsibilities
1. Business Analysis and Requirements Management
- Lead business analysis activities for large-scale digital transformation and complex I&IT initiatives.
- Plan and conduct requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, prioritization, and ongoing management.
- Develop and maintain business requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, use cases, process models, and data requirements.
- Analyze business needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability, ensuring alignment between business outcomes, user needs, solution design, development, testing, release, and implementation.
- Identify and resolve requirements gaps, ambiguities, assumptions, constraints, and conflicting stakeholder expectations.
2. Enterprise Platform and Service Onboarding
- Assess new government services for integration with shared enterprise platforms and reusable platform capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to leverage existing platform features, common services, workflows, and integration patterns.
- Define integration, data exchange, workflow, reporting, and operational requirements for service onboarding.
- Evaluate alignment between program-specific needs and established enterprise platform capabilities.
- Identify dependencies, integration challenges, operational considerations, and impacts associated with onboarding new services.
- Collaborate with architects, product teams, developers, and program stakeholders to support effective and sustainable platform integration.
3. Process Analysis and Service Improvement
- Analyze current-state business processes, service delivery models, workflows, and operational practices.
- Develop streamlined future-state process models that improve efficiency, consistency, usability, and service outcomes.
- Conduct business process reviews, gap analyses, impact assessments, and options analyses.
- Document business rules, process flows, decision points, data requirements, and operational procedures.
- Ensure proposed solutions address business needs while considering privacy, security, accessibility, and operational requirements.
4. Agile Delivery, Testing, and Implementation
- Work within Agile or hybrid delivery teams to support product development and service onboarding.
- Participate in product backlog refinement, requirements prioritization, estimation, and sprint planning.
- Collaborate with product owners, Scrum teams, architects, UX designers, developers, and testers to clarify requirements and resolve issues.
- Support test planning, test scenario development, requirements-based validation, defect triage, and business acceptance testing.
- Validate that delivered solutions meet approved business requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Support release readiness, implementation planning, operational handover, and post-implementation activities.
- Coordinate business and technical deliverables throughout the delivery lifecycle.
5. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
- Plan and facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, requirements walkthroughs, and validation sessions.
- Engage business, policy, program, operational, legal, privacy, security, accessibility, and technology stakeholders.
- Translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements and communicate technical considerations to business audiences.
- Manage stakeholder expectations, negotiate requirements, resolve conflicting priorities, and build consensus.
- Prepare executive presentations, decision documents, status reports, recommendations, and options analyses for senior management.
- Communicate project progress, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions effectively.
6. Governance, Risk, and Operational Readiness
- Identify and document project risks, assumptions, issues, constraints, dependencies, and organizational impacts.
- Coordinate business input into architecture, user experience, data, privacy, security, accessibility, and testing activities.
- Ensure requirements are sufficiently documented, validated, prioritized, and approved.
- Support decision-making through evidence-based analysis and clear recommendations.
- Help ensure onboarded services satisfy approved program requirements and operational needs.
Mandatory Qualifications – Must-Have Skills
Candidates must demonstrate the following experience:
- Large-Scale Digital Initiatives: Proven experience leading business analysis for large-scale digital transformation or complex I&IT initiatives.
- Requirements Documentation: Demonstrated experience documenting and managing business and system requirements, user stories, process models, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
- Enterprise Platform Integration and Service Onboarding: Experience assessing services for integration with shared platforms and reusable enterprise capabilities.
- Agile or Hybrid Delivery: Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery teams and supporting backlog management, testing, release, and implementation activities.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Experience coordinating deliverables across business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
Required Experience and Technical Competencies
- Strong experience eliciting, analyzing, validating, prioritizing, and managing business, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, integration, and operational requirements.
- Experience developing process models, use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, data requirements, and requirements traceability matrices.
- Experience supporting enterprise platforms, shared capabilities, system integrations, and onboarding of new services.
- Experience conducting current-state assessments, future-state process design, gap analysis, and impact assessments.
- Experience supporting product backlogs, sprint planning, requirements refinement, testing, release readiness, and implementation.
- Experience facilitating workshops and requirements-validation sessions with multidisciplinary stakeholder groups.
- Experience identifying dependencies, risks, assumptions, constraints, and organizational impacts.
- Experience preparing executive-level presentations, decision documents, options analyses, recommendations, and project status updates.
- Ability to coordinate business input into architecture, UX, privacy, security, accessibility, data, and testing deliverables.
Requirements
Evaluation Criteria and Weightings
Candidates will be assessed against the following skill categories:
1. Business Analysis Experience
- Experience leading analysis for large-scale digital initiatives.
- Experience documenting requirements, user stories, process models, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience maintaining end-to-end requirements traceability.
2. Platform and Service Onboarding Experience
- Experience assessing services for integration with shared platforms and reusable capabilities.
- Experience defining integration, data, workflow, and operational requirements.
3. Delivery, Testing, and Implementation
- Experience working in Agile or hybrid teams and supporting backlog management, testing, release, and implementation activities.
- Experience coordinating deliverables across business and technical teams.
4. Communication and Stakeholder Management
- Excellent facilitation, written communication, presentation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate effectively between business and technical audiences.
Key Competencies
- Strategic and analytical thinking
- Requirements elicitation and lifecycle management
- Enterprise platform integration and service onboarding
- Business process modelling and service improvement
- Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies
- Stakeholder facilitation and relationship management
- Risk, dependency, and impact analysis
- Testing, release, and implementation support
- Executive communication and decision support
- Cross-functional collaboration and problem-solving
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a seasoned Senior Business Analyst with demonstrated experience delivering complex digital initiatives, defining comprehensive business and system requirements, and evaluating new services for integration with enterprise platforms and reusable capabilities.
The candidate must be comfortable working in a collaborative Agile or hybrid environment, coordinating across business and technical teams, maintaining requirements traceability, and supporting activities from initial discovery through implementation. Strong facilitation, documentation, stakeholder management, and communication skills are essential.
Important Submission Notes
- The role is 100% onsite, five days per week, at 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto.
- Candidates must demonstrate all five mandatory qualifications in their resumes, supported by specific project examples and clearly described responsibilities.
- Emphasize large-scale digital initiatives, enterprise platform integration, service onboarding, requirements traceability, Agile delivery, and cross-functional coordination.
- Submit before November 3, 2026, at 12:00 PM EST.
- No security clearance is required.