DESCRIPTION

Our Client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to facilitate, gather, document, and get business approval of requirements. The Senior Business Analyst provides senior-level business analysis consulting, project leadership and client relationship management in order to support the objectives of the Corporation and Divisional Units, ensuring both business and technology related solutions adhere to standards, regulations and/or policies. The Senior Business Analyst manages new development and controls activities related to new or changing program initiatives from a business perspective, ensuring business products and targets are achieved.
Contractor to work Remote and onsite occasionally in Edmonton, Alberta.
Must be Canadian Citizen to apply and work within Canada at all times.

SKILLS

BPM, Use Cases, User stories, MS Project, Agile

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/MANDATORY SKILLS

• Assertive in identifying and seeking out the correct stakeholders in requirements gathering.
• Capable of taking on Project Management tasks as needed; even though an assignment may have a dedicated Project Manager, there are times that a Business Analyst may take on typical Project Management tasks.
• Has high level communication skills, written and oral, including facilitation techniques (personable, articulate and very competent in documentation including presentations)
• Follows industry best practices in requirements gathering techniques
• Experience with assignments that have tight timelines with critical business operational impacts.
• Capable of multi-tasking and able to deal with changing requirements;
• Capable of working with multiple assignments/projects at the same time.
• Capable of working independently, high aptitude and ability to mentor and share information with team members.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Visio
• Experience in Business Process Modeling
• Experience documenting business rules and data models
• Experience creating Use Cases or User Stories and transforming requirements into functional specifications.
• Familiar with estimating task duration

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• Experience using MS-Project or other project management tools.
• Familiar with government legislation.
• Experience working in Software Development environment or projects.
• Experience developing Business Cases or Business Case Summaries
• Experience in Business Process Reengineering
• Experience with Agile software development process
• Experience working in a project/technical management role.
• Experience with projects spanning multiple technical environments.
• Experience working on Enterprise applications.
• Experience working within an Enterprise Architecture environment.
• Experience with secure exchange of electronic documents between stakeholders

Please refer the Job description for details