Senior Business Analyst

Client: Government Services Integration Cluster (GSIC)
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Ontario
Location: Toronto, Ontario – 100% Onsite, 5 Days/Week
Contract: September 21, 2026 – March 31, 2027
Extension: Up to 1 additional term
Openings: 1
Security Clearance: No Clearance Required
Submission Limit: 1 Candidate
Closing Date: October 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM EST
Position Overview
The Government Services Integration Cluster is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead and conduct comprehensive business analysis activities for complex I&IT initiatives.
The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, project teams, developers, QA specialists, and other technical stakeholders to understand business needs, define requirements, assess business problems and opportunities, and translate requirements into effective technology solutions.
The role requires strong experience with business analysis, requirements gathering, business process reengineering, business architecture, Agile/Scrum delivery, business cases, options analysis, stakeholder engagement, documentation, user stories, use cases, process modeling, and technical solution alignment.
The successful candidate must be comfortable working in a 100% onsite environment in Toronto, five days per week.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Requirements

• Lead and conduct business analysis to assess client business problems and opportunities.
  
• Gather, elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage business and technical requirements.
  
• Lead and facilitate workshops to elicit, review, document, and confirm:
  
  • Business requirements
    
  • Business process reengineering requirements
    
  • Business models
    
  • Business rules
    
  • User interface requirements and design
    
• Develop requirements documentation appropriate to the project phase and level of detail required.
  
• Ensure requirements are clearly translated into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions.
  
• Conduct ongoing business analysis throughout all phases of the project lifecycle.
  
• Maintain and continually refine approved business requirements and identify significant changes requiring documentation and approval.
  
• Develop requirements traceability matrices and performance measures to evaluate business analysis activities.
  

Business Process & Modeling

• Conduct business modeling, including:
  
  • Business functional modeling
    
  • Business event modeling
    
  • Business process mapping
    
  • Process and data flow modeling
    
  • Conceptual and logical data modeling
    
  • Use case modeling
    
  • Use case surveys
    
  • Business rules definition
    
  • Non-functional requirements definition
    
• Develop context diagrams, use cases, use case models, process maps, stakeholder maps, assessments, and systems diagrams.
  
• Apply business process reengineering concepts to identify alternative and cost-effective service delivery approaches.
  
• Analyze business transformation opportunities and recommend process improvements.
  

Agile / Scrum

• Work hands-on within Agile/Scrum environments.
  
• Break complex business requirements into manageable deliverables for development teams.
  
• Create and maintain effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
  
• Participate in sprint planning and daily stand-ups.
  
• Ensure business analysis activities align with iterative development cycles.
  
• Support UX, functional, and technical design activities.
  
• Ensure requirements remain aligned with project objectives throughout iterative delivery.
  

Business Cases & Strategic Analysis

• Develop business cases from start to finish.
  
• Develop strategies for I&IT initiatives.
  
• Conduct:
  
  • Options analysis
    
  • Cost-benefit analysis
    
  • Feasibility studies
    
  • Budget estimation
    
  • ROI assessments
    
• Evaluate alternative technology and service delivery approaches.
  
• Provide recommendations based on business value, feasibility, risk, cost, and alignment with organizational objectives.
  

Enterprise Architecture & I&IT

• Apply enterprise business architecture concepts to ensure recommended technologies align with OPS standards.
  
• Understand and apply I&IT Cluster and corporate policies, directives, guidelines, standards, and procedures.
  
• Ensure traceability between business requirements and I&IT solutions.
  
• Ensure recommended solutions comply with enterprise and cluster standards and directions.
  
• Maintain awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies.
  
• Translate business and data requirements into specifications that support appropriate technology solutions.
  

Change Management & User Adoption

• Lead and support change management activities.
  
• Define change scope and conduct impact assessments.
  
• Develop training and communication strategies for end users.
  
• Support end-user adoption of new systems and process changes.
  
• Communicate system and process changes clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
• Apply user-centered design principles to improve usability and user adoption.
  

UX & Design

• Support user experience, functional, and technical design activities.
  
• Apply user-centered design principles.
  
• Work with user interface design requirements and prototypes.
  
• Use tools such as Figma to translate business requirements into user-friendly digital interfaces.
  
• Effectively communicate design concepts and development processes to stakeholders.
  

QA / Testing / UAT

• Apply knowledge of quality assurance methodologies and testing processes.
  
• Support and/or participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  
• Ensure business requirements are validated against system functionality before deployment.
  
• Work closely with QA teams to identify and resolve requirement-related issues.
  
• Support quality assurance of business solution recommendations and implementations.
  

Production Support & Problem Resolution

• Oversee ongoing production support and configuration management activities.
  
• Lead problem identification and resolution activities.
  
• Monitor progress, resolve issues, and report regularly to management and stakeholders.
  
• Identify risks, assess impacts, and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
  
• Ensure timely resolution of production and project issues.
  

Procurement / RFP Support

• Lead and participate in Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
  
• Focus on defining client requirements and evaluating vendor responses.
  
• Assess proposed I&IT business and/or infrastructure solutions against business needs and requirements.
  

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Plan, coordinate, and lead assigned business analysis, process improvement, architecture, or infrastructure activities within defined risk, time, and resource constraints.
  
• Balance competing priorities and manage stakeholder expectations.
  
• Provide technical leadership, functional business analysis, and architecture expertise to project staff, colleagues, and clients.
  
• Work collaboratively with developers, QA specialists, business stakeholders, project managers, architects, and other cross-functional teams.
  
• Monitor project progress and communicate status, risks, issues, and recommendations.
  

Requirements

Mandatory Qualifications / Must-Have Requirements
Candidates must demonstrate ALL of the following:
1. Business Analysis & Workshop Facilitation

• Proven experience leading and facilitating workshops to elicit, review, document, and confirm:
  
  • Business requirements
    
  • Business process reengineering
    
  • Business models
    
  • Business rules
    
  • User interface design
    

2. Agile Methodology

• Strong knowledge and practical experience with Agile methodologies.
  
• Ability to break complex business requirements into manageable deliverables for development teams.
  
• Hands-on experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
  

3. User Stories / Iterative Delivery

• Experience creating user stories.
  
• Experience supporting UX, functional, and technical designs.
  
• Ability to ensure business analysis activities align with iterative development cycles.
  
• Experience participating in sprint planning and daily stand-ups.
  

4. Medium-to-Large Projects

• Demonstrated experience working on medium to large-sized projects as a Business Analyst or Functional Consultant.
  

5. Enterprise Business Architecture / OPS Standards

• Experience with enterprise business architectural concepts.
  
• Ability to ensure recommended technologies align with OPS standards.
  

6. Business Cases

• Demonstrated experience developing business cases from start to finish.
  
• Experience developing strategies, options analysis, cost-benefit analyses, and feasibility studies for I&IT initiatives.
  

7. Documentation

• Demonstrated ability to prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation, including:
  
  • Reports
    
  • Reviews
    
  • Assessments
    
  • Business requirements
    
  • Business cases
    
  • Process documentation
    
  • Other project documentation
    

8. Communication

• Ability to present ideas and recommendations clearly and effectively in a user-friendly manner.
  
• Ability to communicate complex information effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  

Required Technical & Business Analysis Skills
The successful candidate should have strong hands-on experience with:

• Requirements elicitation and management
  
• Business requirements documentation
  
• Requirements traceability
  
• Workshop facilitation
  
• Business process reengineering
  
• Business process mapping
  
• Business functional modeling
  
• Business event modeling
  
• Context diagrams
  
• Use cases and use case models
  
• User stories
  
• Business rules
  
• Stakeholder mapping
  
• Systems diagrams
  
• Process and data flow modeling
  
• Conceptual and logical data modeling
  
• Non-functional requirements
  
• User interface requirements
  
• UX requirements and design
  
• Agile/Scrum methodologies
  
• Sprint planning
  
• Daily stand-ups
  
• UAT and QA processes
  
• Change management
  
• Impact analysis
  
• Training and communication strategies
  
• Business cases
  
• Options analysis
  
• Cost-benefit analysis
  
• Feasibility studies
  
• Budget estimation
  
• ROI assessment
  
• Risk identification and mitigation
  
• Production support
  
• Configuration management
  
• RFP requirements and vendor evaluation
  
• Enterprise business architecture
  
• I&IT governance and standards
  

Tools
Experience with business analysis and project management tools such as:

• Microsoft DevOps / Azure DevOps
  
• Microsoft Visio
  
• Figma
  
• Other business process, requirements, UX, and modeling tools
  
• CASE tools for documenting conceptual requirements and project scope
  

Additional Experience / Knowledge
The following experience and knowledge are highly relevant:

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  
• Software design, development, and integration
  
• Database concepts
  
• User interface design principles
  
• Change management
  
• Quality assurance
  
• Risk management
  
• Disaster recovery planning
  
• Business continuity planning
  
• Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices
  
• Structured methodologies
  
• Object-oriented methodologies
  
• Agile methodologies
  
• OPS Unified Project Management Methodology
  
• OPS Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process
  
• OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies
  
• OPS I&IT Cluster and corporate policies, directives, guidelines, and procedures
  
• Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  
• Information retrieval packages
  
• Emerging I&IT trends and technologies
  

Communication & Interpersonal Skills
The candidate must demonstrate:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
  
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  
• Ability to communicate complex technical and business concepts in an understandable manner.
  
• Ability to prepare clear and comprehensive reports, reviews, assessments, and presentations.
  
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
  
• Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
  
• Strong customer-service orientation.
  
• Ability to respond to stakeholder concerns promptly and professionally.
  
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements and dynamic business environments.
  
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams including:
  
  • Developers
    
  • QA specialists
    
  • Business stakeholders
    
  • Project managers
    
  • Architects
    
  • Technical teams
    
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and manage competing priorities.