Sr. BSA with technology delivery experience (Agile/Kanban) within the financial domain to support our large insurance client - 0591

Sr. BSA with technology delivery experience (Agile/Kanban) within the financial domain to support our large insurance client - 0591

Duration: 18 Months

Location: Toronto (Hybrid)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and defining a strategic vision for key systems based online of business, their needs, known risks and dependencies in partnership with portfolio solutions architects.
• Applying advanced knowledge to help implement solutions to resolve complex problems or capitalize on new ideas, which may be independently or through leading or supporting the collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Applying Agile knowledge and experience to capture and shape business needs and requirements so that they can be progressively refined into Epics and user stories that the Agile teams can work with to deliver value. Helping to uncover and maximize the business/customer/user value of planned initiatives through facilitation, analysis and modeling techniques. Deep understanding of how Agile teams work and how value flows through the system and gets delivered to the customer.

Discover/Scoping

• Working with the portfolio team and business partners, use intake, triage, and formalized discovery processes to define the problem/opportunity and expected business benefits for each target stakeholder group.
• Working with the portfolio architect and business partners, gather and define enough high-level requirements to develop a high level system impact assessment, scoped solution, and business case.
• Lead and orchestrate the overall analysis, scoping, estimating, and planning for large or complex initiatives
• Lead the elicitation and validation of business requirements affecting multiple products using various methods, techniques, and tools

Planning

• Define detailed business requirements using waterfall or agile requirement gathering methodologies, functional and non-functional specifications for each work package to be assigned to dev/ops squads for detailed design, build and execution.
• Help facilitate the assignment of work packages to dev/ops squads for prioritization and execution.

Execution & Operationalization

• Provide portfolio level support to squad BSAs, Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts during the detailed, design and build delivery phases.
• Help facilitate the analysis between dev/ops squads if business scope, requirements and/or the solution evolves during the delivery lifecycle.
• Work with dev/ops squad BSAs and quality assurance team members to ensure adequate testing and validate that the system meets business needs/expectations.
• Lead and facilitate meetings, walkthroughs, workshops, and reviews of deliverables
• Contribute to training strategies and business implementation planning.
• Help coordinate multi-squad development and delivery of training & support materials for affected stakeholders

Must Haves:

• Accreditation in Business Analysis or equivalent credentials/experience.
• 7+ years as a Business Systems Analyst in a Technology delivery environment
• Degree in related discipline (Computer Science, Commerce, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, etc) or equivalent combination of training and experience.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience working within an Agile Scrum and/or Kan Ban team
• Experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience working with, or within, a financial services organization