Senior Business Analyst

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to lead end-to-end business analysis for large-scale, complex digital and I&IT initiatives. In this role, you will collaborate closely with policy, legal, operational, privacy, security, and technical stakeholders to elicit, document, validate, and manage business requirements. Working across both custom-built and vendor-based solutions, you will analyze emerging legislative and regulatory changes, design streamlined future-state business processes, maintain requirements traceability, and support Agile delivery throughout design, testing, and implementation.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 11-month contract.

Advantages
High-Impact Scope: Lead business analysis for large-scale digital transformations and legislative solution deployments.

Diverse Vendor & Policy Exposure: Gain hands-on experience translating complex policy frameworks into vendor-based and custom IT solutions.

End-to-End Delivery Leadership: Drive full lifecycle analysis spanning process re-engineering, Agile story mapping, testing, and implementation.

Focused Onsite Collaboration: Partner directly alongside executive stakeholders, policy leads, and technical teams in a dedicated 5-day per week Toronto workspace.

Responsibilities
Requirements Leadership & Elicitation: Plan and lead requirements elicitation using JAD sessions, workshops, interviews, and walkthroughs to define business, functional, non-functional, data, and reporting requirements.

Process Modeling & Agile Artifacts: Map current-state and future-state business processes, creating use cases, process diagrams, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria.

Vendor Solution & Policy Integration: Partner with vendors to define technical requirements and evaluate solution fit; collaborate with policy teams to translate legislative and regulatory changes into actionable system specifications.

Requirements Traceability & Governance: Establish and maintain comprehensive Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) throughout the design, build, testing, and deployment phases.

Agile Delivery & Testing Support: Support product backlog refinement, story prioritization, sprint planning, test case development, defect triage, and business acceptance testing (BAT).

Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinate business inputs for user experience (UX) design, privacy impact assessments (PIAs), security standards, enterprise architecture, and data governance.

Executive Advisory & Reporting: Author decision-support materials, briefing notes, options analyses, risk assessments, and progress reports for senior leadership.

Qualifications
Senior Business Analysis Leadership: Proven experience leading business analysis for large, complex digital or I&IT initiatives (Strictly Required).

Vendor-Based Solution Experience: Demonstrated experience working with vendor-based solutions, including collaborating with vendors to define requirements, assess solution fit, and support implementation (Strictly Required).

Policy & Legislative Translation: Experience collaborating with policy teams to analyze emerging legislative, regulatory, and policy changes and translate them into business requirements (Strictly Required).

Requirements Lifecycle Management: Expertise in eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business, functional, non-functional, data, and reporting requirements (Strictly Required).

Process Modeling & Agile Deliverables: Proven ability to build process models, use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, and maintain end-to-end requirements traceability matrices (Strictly Required).

Multi-Stakeholder Workshop Facilitation: Skilled in facilitating workshops with business, policy, operational, legal, privacy, security, and technical stakeholders (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior business analysis experience within a public sector or enterprise environment.

Experience working with government registries or public sector service delivery frameworks.

Strong background in user-centered design principles and privacy impact documentation.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Business Analyst" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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