Job Description:

• Backlog Management: Collaborating with the Product Owner to prioritize and refine the product backlog, ensuring that user stories are well-defined and ready for development.
• Sprint Planning: Participating in sprint planning meetings to help define the scope and objectives of each sprint, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Requirement Elicitation: Working closely with stakeholders and the development team to gather and clarify requirements, often through user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Continuous Improvement: Engaging in sprint retrospectives to identify areas for improvement and implement changes to enhance team performance and product quality.
• User Story Development: Writing and refining user stories, ensuring they are clear, concise, and actionable for the development team.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Facilitating communication between stakeholders and the development team to ensure that the delivered solutions meet business needs.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintaining up-to-date documentation and providing regular reports on project progress and performance metrics.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Business Analysis and Problem-Solving Skills - 35%:

• Experienced in requirement elicitation, documentation, gap analysis, evaluation of alternative solutions, user interation/experience design (UI/UX) and making recommendations. (MUST HAVE)
• Experience facilitating sessions with a diverse audience for requirements Client and analysis using a variety of methodologies (e.g. Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid). (MUST HAVE)
• Work with stakeholders (internal and external) across the program to develop clearly defined epics and user stories.
• Experience in writing user stories in Azure DevOps. (MUST HAVE)
• Gather information on client problems, services and business goals/objectives
• Help program understand their needs and translate to design models and concepts
• Evaluate requirements and review options for solution, assess cost/benefit of options, evaluate alternative conceptual systems designs and potential impact of proposed system changes on existing service delivery.
• Recommend approaches and discuss with team and stakeholders.
• Translate from technical terminology to business terms.

Technical Knowledge and Expertise - 25%:

• Led/managed business transformation/solution design initiatives, with a focus on business architecture and user interation/experience design (UI/UX). (MUST HAVE)
• Experience in conceptual design of enterprise data warehouses and extensive experience in data management supporting development teams - working on requirements gathering and design documentation.
• Understand data warehouse modeling concepts and design principles (Kimball and Inmon).
• Advanced technical knowledge of large hardware and software operations and utilities, productivity tools, online processing systems, web-based technologies and database management systems.
• Knowledge of enterprise architectural concepts and processes, specifically in the area of business architecture for data warehouses, marts, lakes (in Azure platform). (MUST HAVE)
• Knowledge of front end, web-based technologies and data-mining/reporting-based COTS tools (e.g., IBM CURAM) encompassing feasibility studies, requirements definition, analysis, prototyping, system design, implementation, testing and maintenance (Nice to have).
• Provide consultation on source to target mapping to ensure business and technical alignment.
• Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies, familiarity with ITIL Processes for Change/Release Management, relational database technologies, use of information retrieval packages using SQL and other query languages.
• Knowledge of emerging IT trends and technologies - cloud computing, enterprise data warehousing, etc.
• Knowledge of accessibility compliance requirements e.g AODA, WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA or the most recent WCAG requirements.

Organizational and Project Management Skills - 20%:

• Plan, develop, manage, control projects and resolve complex technical design problems.
• Knowledge of project management and in-depth knowledge of task estimation, scheduling and control.
• Development of documentation and materials as part of a review and knowledge transfer to other members.
• Development of specific activities as part of a review (hand over to ministry staff) and building block approach which, build on knowledge transfer and skills development from the previous stage to the next.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills - 20%:

• Gather information, clarify needs and desired system changes, explain system development recommendations, explain and provide instruction on new/modified systems and technology.
• Prepare business cases, systems documentation, user manuals and guidelines.
• Clarify and discuss systems development options with clients.