Business Analysts, Senior x2

Job Description

Senior Business Analyst, Level 3 (Contract): Core and Agile Delivery Specialist streams

Location: Ottawa (Nepean), ON (hybrid, onsite approximately 2 days per week)
Duration: Contract through March 31, 2027, with a possible one-year extension
Security: Government of Canada Reliability Status required
Language: English essential (spoken and written)

Role Overview

Our client, a Government of Canada defence organization, is seeking Senior Business Analysts to help build and run a centralized intake, triage and delivery enablement function. The function will assess and route innovation requests, turn them into clear requirements and delivery-ready work, and keep everything aligned with the modernization of the Military Personnel Management System (MPMS) and the move toward a future ERP environment.

You will work with business owners, enterprise architects and delivery teams to bring consistency and traceability to a large-scale transformation. You will also transfer knowledge to government staff so the function can be sustained after the contract ends.

We are hiring for two streams: Core (enterprise analysis, requirements, data and integration) and Agile Delivery Specialist (the same foundation, with a stronger focus on Agile delivery, intake and demand management, and ERP and enterprise architecture alignment). Please tell us which stream you are applying for, or whether you are open to either.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess innovation requests for business impact, urgency, feasibility and alignment with MPMS objectives, and recommend routing
• Write clear problem statements and identify assumptions, constraints and dependencies
• Document current-state systems, technical debt and legacy functionality, and perform As-Is to To-Be gap analyses
• Elicit, analyze and document business and functional requirements (SRS/FRD)
• Develop process maps, workflows and decision trees that define business logic and information flows
• Define and document data structures, interfaces and integration points between manual and automated processes and existing systems
• Develop user stories, backlog items and acceptance criteria, and support backlog refinement
• Prepare intake assessment reports and delivery options analyses with risks and recommended approaches
• Maintain intake decision logs and requirements traceability records
• Support validation and testing activities and adherence to departmental methodologies
• Document procedures, lessons learned and training materials, and lead knowledge transfer sessions
• Attend designated meetings and submit timesheets and status reports

Must-Have Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst on enterprise-level business transformation within the last 15 years
• One of the following certifications: PMI-PBA, CCBA, CBAP or BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice
• 5+ years within the last 10 years in business process modelling for end-to-end enterprise workflows, including As-Is and To-Be processes, decision points, hand-offs and business rules
• 5+ years within the last 10 years defining and documenting data and information elements, including data inventories or dictionaries
• 5+ years within the last 10 years identifying and documenting system and process interfaces and integration dependencies
• 5+ years within the last 10 years eliciting and documenting business, functional and system requirements, including user stories and acceptance criteria
• 5+ years within the last 10 years maintaining traceability between requirements and business artefacts
• 5+ years within the last 10 years assessing business or system requests for feasibility, impact and routing in enterprise environments
• Eligibility for Government of Canada Reliability Status
• Ability to communicate in English (spoken and written)

Preferred Qualifications / Assets

• Data artefact development, including data inventories, data dictionaries and conceptual or logical data modelling (7+ years is ideal)
• Higher-level certifications, with CCBA and CBAP weighted most heavily
• Agile or hybrid delivery on enterprise-level initiatives (7+ years is ideal for the Agile Delivery Specialist stream)
• Designing structured intake, triage and demand management functions (7+ years is ideal for the Agile Delivery Specialist stream)
• Aligning business analysis with enterprise architecture, ERP systems or large-scale transformation (3+ years is ideal)
• Decision support, governance and assurance, including options analysis and recommending preferred approaches (7+ years is ideal)
• Strong understanding of:
  • BPMN, process mapping and value stream mapping
  • Agile frameworks (Scrum, AgileBA, IIBA Agile Analysis)
  • ERP environments (SAP, Oracle)
  • Application Portfolio Modernization

This employer uses both human and technology-assisted tools to support candidate screening and assessment. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

This posting is for a public sector assignment. Compensation will be determined through the competitive bidding process and will be within the approved rate structure for this assignment.