Job Specifications
Pay Rate: $12,500.00 / month salary based on Experience
This is a full-time, fixed-term appointment, for a duration of 12 months.
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Raise is currently hiring a permanent, Senior Business Analyst on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our client, is one of Canada's public research Universities is a global centre for teaching, learning and research. Consistently ranked among the top public Universities in the world
Description
Our client has an extensive list of investment requests for IT enabled projects from across the organization. The execution of the portfolio of projects extends out over at least the next five years, and new projects are being added to the pipeline on a regular basis. The execution of each project within the portfolio is approximately one year and the resources from each project will transition from one project to next upon completion of the delivery of each project. These projects will be managed within the Program Delivery office. The Program Delivery office is seeking a Senior Business Analyst.
The Senior Business Analyst analyzes business needs and develops overall strategies for how automated systems can be used to support the short- and long-term direction of the business.
The Senior Business Analyst provides expertise in the areas of business process discovery and definition, requirements definition, analysis and design, configuration, implementation, testing, training, facilitation and documentation to deliver enterprise solutions to the organization. The Senior Business Analyst will own and drive the business analysis process. The Senior Business Analyst will be expected to manage portions of the project life cycle in regard to the business analysis phases including preparing project plans, schedules and strategies, and communicating status, risks, issues and decisions to project managers.
Organizational Status
The Senior Business Analyst works within the project team that consists of developers, functional experts, and other project specialists, and reports directly to the Senior PMO Operations Manager. The Senior Business Analyst will work closely with senior leadership and staff in other administrative and academic units.
Responsibilities
Plan, organize, manage, monitor and be responsible for the business analysis activities of projects.
Understand business context, project justification, business goals, and priorities and update and maintain documentation on such.
Understand and apply business architecture concepts to ensure strategic alignment with organizational goals, outcomes and business value.
Recommend types of working groups, and leads working groups to support the discovery and analysis of business processes and requirements and the design of new solutions.
Document current state business process, capture issues and opportunities and understand proposed future state, identifying gaps to achieve that state.
Develop business requirements documents, solutions requirements documents, functional requirements.
Partner with and support architects in the creation of current and future state architecture.
Create process maps, data maps, data model, data flow diagrams and work with and support data architects.
Collaborate with integration architects to design integrations.
Prepare RFPs, including functional and non-functional requirements.
Participate in developing RFP scoring mechanisms and facilitating and managing the scoring processes.
Recommend options for the implementation of business solutions.
Support change management by working with change management teams, creating training materials, and managing training when required.
Provide guidance and leadership to testing teams (end users etc.) and/or develops user test cases and validates test results during user acceptance testing, system acceptance testing and operational acceptance testing.
Lead and conduct workflow and gap analysis for operational support processes.
Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the organization's technical and business environment.
Participate in the continuous improvement of the business analysis methodology via recommendations and suggestions, lessons learned and working groups.
Advise and mentor project teams on various methodologies including waterfall and agile methodologies.
Lead, mentor and coach other Business Analysts on process, techniques, and good practices and provide guidance on project specific situations.
Actively seeks ongoing career development through self-motivated professional development in the field of business analysis.
Core Duties
Analyzes business needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes).
Develops overall strategies and provides advice on options, risks and costs versus benefits.
Communicates with stakeholders of varying technical ability and sub
About the Company
Raise is the newest iteration of the Ian Martin Group--a leading staffing firm that's been connecting people in meaningful work for 65 years.
Today, Raise is branching out to engage even more exceptional candidates and provide them with diverse and meaningful job opportunities across North America--in addition to our traditional business in technical fields such as engineering and IT, we're expanding our openings to include jobs in customer service, manufacturing and light industrial, to name some.
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