Senior Business Analyst - Legal Document Management Migration

Toronto, ON
Hybrid
Posted Nov 14, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Senior
Minimum education: Professional degree
Posting language: English
Office presence: 4 days per week
Application method: Apply on LinkedIn (LinkedIn sign-in required)

Job summary

Lead requirements gathering, documentation, validation, and traceability across business and technology workstreams, including source-to-target data and metadata mapping. Support migration planning and testing, records management and compliance requirements, acceptance criteria, and coordination among stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams.

Job details

Senior Business Analyst (Legal & Document Management Migration) 📍 Toronto, ON (Hybrid/Onsite - 4 Days Per Week) 📅 Contract Duration: Until End of Fiscal Year 2027 (Extension Possible) 💰 Competitive Hourly Rate 🏢 Leading Enterprise Financial Services Environment About the Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a large-scale legal document management transformation initiative within a highly regulated enterprise environment. This role will play a critical part in document migration, metadata mapping, records management, testing, and requirements traceability across multiple business and technology workstreams. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a complex enterprise implementation involving legal operations, data migration, governance, and document management modernization. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, validation, and management. Facilitate workshops with business, technology, and vendor stakeholders to elicit business, functional, non-functional, migration, security, and testing requirements. Develop and maintain source-to-target data and metadata mappings across multiple systems. Drive requirements traceability from approval through design, testing, defect management, and business acceptance. Support complex data and document migration planning, readiness assessments, migration testing, and validation activities. Define acceptance criteria and collaborate with testing teams throughout SIT and UAT cycles. Document migration rules, dependencies, business controls, and reconciliation requirements. Support records management, retention, legal-hold, access-control, and compliance requirements. Identify and manage risks, dependencies, constraints, and stakeholder concerns. Collaborate with business SMEs, technology teams, architects, quality engineering teams, and external vendors to ensure successful delivery. Required Qualifications Must-Have Skills 8+ years of Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments. Proven experience leading requirements elicitation, documentation, and stakeholder management. Experience supporting enterprise system implementations involving data or document migration. Strong understanding of requirements traceability from initiation through testing and implementation. Experience translating data lifecycle, records retention/disposition, and governance requirements into business and testing requirements. Proven ability to identify and document dependencies, risks, constraints, and impacts. Experience working within both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies. Strong facilitation and communication skills with business and technology stakeholders. Ability to drive multiple project teams toward successful delivery outcomes. Nice-to-Have Skills Knowledge of Data Lifecycle Management practices. Experience with enterprise document management platforms. Jira and Confluence experience. Experience within financial services, legal operations, records management, or other highly regulated industries. Business Analysis certifications (CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, or similar). Education Undergraduate degree required. Business Analysis accreditation/certification is considered a strong asset. Ideal Candidate You are a senior-level Business Analyst who excels at navigating complex enterprise environments and can confidently bridge business and technology teams. You bring strong expertise in data/document migration initiatives, requirements traceability, testing support, governance, and stakeholder management. Experience supporting regulated environments such as financial services, legal operations, healthcare, insurance, or government sectors is highly desirable. Why Apply? Long-term contract through Fiscal 2027. Opportunity for extension. High-impact enterprise transformation initiative. Exposure to legal operations and document-management modernization. Collaborative team environment with business, technology, and vendor stakeholders. Opportunity to work on a strategic implementation within a leading Canadian enterprise organization. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply with an updated resume highlighting relevant Business Analysis, migration, document management, and testing experience. Use AI for Hiring: Our recruitment process for this role includes the use of AI-based tools to help evaluate candidate qualifications and screen applications. Why Kelly? At Kelly®, we’re committed to finding rewarding opportunities that help you thrive—both professionally and personally. We partner with leading organizations across industries, connecting talented individuals to roles that fit their skills, interests, and goals. As part of the Kelly team, you’ll have access to a diverse network, ongoing career support, and resources to help you succeed. We value inclusion, respect, and work-life balance, and we offer competitive pay and benefits. Join us and discover what’s next for your career!

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Requirements

Requires at least eight years of business analysis experience, including enterprise implementations involving data or document migration, requirements traceability, and stakeholder management. Candidates need experience with records retention and governance requirements, Agile and Waterfall delivery, and an undergraduate degree; business analysis certification is an asset.