Job Description On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support the EECD portal ecosystem, which includes multiple integrated, public-facing platforms. This role will act as the primary liaison between business and development teams, leading requirements, design, workshops, documentation, and delivery alignment across a complex digital environment.

Responsibilities

• Successful adaptation to an established team: The Senior BSA will quickly assume the role of Senior BSA and liaison between the business and development team, demonstrating strong leadership skills and ability to take initiative in new work
• Initiate and Lead effective working sessions: The Senior BSA will initiate and facilitate the ongoing workshops and information sessions required with the business to effectively elicit and document requirements and validate proposed solutions; this includes the effective guidance of discussions through probing questions and the presentation of information and proposed solutions to clients, etc.
• Review, confirm and update as necessary, previously identified business requirements. The Senior BSA will be responsible for reviewing the existing documented business requirements with the business owner, confirming the requirements’ continued validity, and updating the business requirements document to reflect any changes to business requirements uncovered.
• Design documents: The Senior BSA will need to design and document possible design solutions/outputs for a web custom developed solution using a combination of Screen Mock-ups, Report Mock-ups, and business rules. These documents must be usable by developers, so they can implement the features documented to provide a positive customer experience on both desktop and mobile devices. Designs must follow best practices and existing standards, and in the absence of standards, be discussed with the BAS-EECD Senior Systems Analyst.
• Work packages: The Senior BSA will be responsible for creating Epics, Features, and/or User Stories in Azure DevOps.
• Collaboration with BAS-EECD Senior Systems Analyst: The Senior BSA will work with SNB’s BAS-EECD Senior Systems Analyst by providing documents for review early in the design stage to allow for a proper review. The Senior BSA will review comments and feedback and keep him informed of decisions and changes to previously reviewed documents.
• Demonstration of working knowledge of the solution: At approximately one month into the engagement, the Senior BSA will be expected to deliver a presentation to the project team members, business owner, and SME’s. The purpose of this presentation is to validate the Senior BSA’s understanding of the current state of the solution, including workflows, data flows, key business rules, and any other relevant operational details.

Qualifications Mandatory Requirements:

• Availability: Available to work Monday to Friday from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Atlantic Time.
• Onsite: Able to attend onsite meetings in Fredericton, NB with 24 hours’ notice for the duration of the engagement at no additional expense.
• Education: Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or equivalent related experience, including degree details, institution, location, and completion date.
• Communication: Demonstrated written and oral communication skills in English, with examples of communications used and where the experience was acquired.
• Ten (10) years of demonstrated and verifiable experience as a Senior Business Systems Analyst, including engaging with subject matter experts to articulate business priorities, define desired outcomes, identify core business capabilities, and demonstrating the ability to learn quickly, adapt to change, and manage multiple priorities.
• Four (4) years of demonstrated and verifiable experience as the Lead Business Systems Analyst on complex, public-facing, custom software development projects.
• Five (5) years of demonstrated and verifiable experience acting as a liaison between business and development teams, authoring specification documents and user stories, and setting GUI standards.

Scored Requirements

• Ten (10) years of demonstrated experience applying a range of requirements-elicitation strategies to gather and document comprehensive functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Eight (8) years of demonstrated experience working with reusable components and integrated systems of medium to large complexity.
• Demonstrated experience on two (2) complex, custom development projects as a Lead Business Systems Analyst joining pre-existing teams, with the ability to quickly adapt to technical and business environments.
• Ten (10) years of demonstrated experience working within a team environment as a lead contributor, performing work in both collaborative and autonomous modes, including team size, roles, composition, and methodology (agile, waterfall, hybrid).
• Eight (8) years of demonstrated experience planning, coordinating, and leading workshops.
• Eight (8) years of demonstrated experience documenting and diagramming business processes and workflows.
• Five (5) years of demonstrated knowledge and experience creating Epics, Features, and Stories using Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Eight (8) years of demonstrated experience translating business requirements into system design artifacts such as prototypes, flow diagrams, and screen mock-ups, and analyzing requirements to identify information needs, procedural steps, and decision flows for custom web solutions.
• Five (5) years of demonstrated experience as a lead analyst working with UX design for desktop and mobile (responsive design) solutions.

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About Affinity Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

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Job Number: 13042