Maarut

RQ11308 - Business Analyst - Senior

Maarut Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Software Development · 11-50 employees

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About the role

The senior Business Analyst will lead strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and governance to ensure technology solutions align with organizational goals. They are responsible for managing requirements, facilitating business transformation, and identifying opportunities for service modernization.

What they look for

Business Analysis Requirements Management Strategic Planning Stakeholder Engagement Governance Business Transformation Process Improvement Risk Management Azure DevOps Microsoft 365 Business Modelling Data Analysis Project Management Methodology Enterprise Architecture Change Management Facilitation

Requirements

Candidates must have extensive experience in business analysis for complex I&IT initiatives and proficiency in requirements elicitation and documentation. Strong analytical skills, experience with project management methodologies, and advanced proficiency in tools like Azure DevOps and Microsoft 365 are required.

Full description

Responsibilities:

  • This is a senior-level Business Analyst role focused on

strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, governance, requirements management, and business transformation, ensuring that technology solutions effectively support organizational goals and operational improvements.

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

  • Extensive experience providing business analysis services

for complex I&IT initiatives with diverse business and technology stakeholders.

  • Expertise eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating,

prioritizing, and managing business, functional, non-functional, process, and data requirements.

  • Experience facilitating requirements gathering activities

using techniques such as interviews, workshops, focus groups, and stakeholder consultations.

  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to assess

complex business problems, opportunities, risks, and strategic objectives.

  • Experience conducting current-state and future-state

analysis and identifying opportunities for business process improvement and service modernization.

  • Proven ability to identify, analyze, document, and manage

risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies.

  • Experience ensuring compliance with OPS Unified Project

Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture standards, system development methodologies, and project gating requirements.

  • Proven ability to facilitate business, technical, and

executive stakeholders through complex discussions, competing priorities, and decision-making processes.

  • Advanced Microsoft 365, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Visio, Azure DevOps, and business modelling tools.

Skill Set Requirements:

Business Analysis & Requirements Management:

  • Extensive experience providing business analysis services

for complex I&IT initiatives with diverse business and technology stakeholders.

  • Expertise eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating,

prioritizing, and managing business, functional, non-functional, process, and data requirements.

  • Experience facilitating requirements gathering activities

using techniques such as interviews, workshops, focus groups, and stakeholder consultations.

  • Proven ability to establish and maintain end-to-end

requirements traceability from business objectives through implementation and operational transition.

  • Experience developing use cases, business rules, process

models, data models, workflows, and requirements specifications.

  • Experience using requirements management and traceability

tools such as Azure DevOps, IBM DOORS, or equivalent platforms.

  • Ability to align requirements with business objectives,

strategic priorities, solution decisions, and project outcomes.

Business Process Analysis & Strategic Advisory Skills:

  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to assess

complex business problems, opportunities, risks, and strategic objectives.

  • Experience conducting current-state and future-state

analysis and identifying opportunities for business process improvement and service modernization.

  • Expertise applying business process re-engineering

methodologies to support efficient and cost-effective service delivery models.

  • Experience supporting large-scale transformation,

modernization, migration, and enterprise-wide change initiatives.

  • Ability to evaluate alternatives, develop evidence-based

recommendations, and support informed decision-making.

  • Experience translating business, process, and data

requirements into specifications that support technology solution design and implementation.

  • Awareness of emerging I&IT trends, technologies, and

industry best practices.

Governance, Risk Management & Quality Assurance:

  • Experience developing and maintaining business analysis

governance frameworks, standards, policies, processes, and quality controls.

  • Experience developing governance artifacts including

business cases, cost-benefit analyses, feasibility studies, options analyses, decision papers, risk assessments, and executive briefings.

  • Proven ability to identify, analyze, document, and manage

risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation strategies.

  • Experience ensuring compliance with OPS Unified Project

Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture standards, system development methodologies, and project gating requirements.

  • Experience maintaining comprehensive documentation,

approvals, traceability artifacts, governance decisions, and audit records.

  • Experience developing and monitoring performance measures,

benefit realization metrics, and post-implementation evaluations.

Stakeholder Engagement, Communication & Facilitation Skills:

  • Demonstrated experience engaging and managing relationships

with business stakeholders, executive sponsors, project teams, vendors, external partners, and technical resources.

  • Proven ability to facilitate business, technical, and

executive stakeholders through complex discussions, competing priorities, and decision-making processes.

  • Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation,

presentation, and conflict-resolution skills.

  • Experience preparing and delivering executive briefings,

presentations, status reports, recommendations, and stakeholder communications.

  • Ability to support business readiness and organizational

change initiatives by communicating impacts, risks, rationale, and expected outcomes.

  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively in

cross-functional teams and consistently deliver high-quality results within established timelines.

  • Advanced Microsoft 365, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Visio, Azure DevOps, and business modelling tools.

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