Business Analyst

Tammy Boyko and Carlan Wilbon are seeking an experienced Business Analyst for a remote long-term contract opportunity with our Government client based in Winnipeg. This position begins with a 6-month term, with an expected total duration of 24 months. 

The Business Analyst will have a minimum of 5 years of experience working with analysis of an organization or business domain and documents, its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology.

Benefits & Perks 

• Immediate long term role as a remove Business Analyst
• Potential to extend

 Responsibilities

• Document the business drivers, client area processes, and how those processes contribute to the achievement of the area’s business goals
• Analyze the business needs of clients and stakeholders to propose potential solutions both technical and non-technical
• Lead the translation of business requirements into high-level design specifications
• Design and document cost effective, innovative and operationally supportable solutions
  Document the structure, connections, and relationships of business processes, organizational work groups, data, applications, user interfaces, applications interfaces, infrastructure, and network topology
• Design solutions that recognize and adapt to the business, technical, and financial constraints
• Develop solutions that recognize IT operational limitations and opportunities
• Document the effort, risk, costs, and complexity of potential solutions
• Research and write discussion documents on such topics as emerging technologies, vendors, functionality and reliability of products, and service offerings
• Review proposed solution architectures and ensure they align with overall enterprise architecture roadmaps, standards, designs, and strategies
• Ensure solution architectures meet business objectives for availability, reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability, manageability, and security
• Ability to identify trends and create appropriate strategy and roadmap documents for Enterprise IT initiatives such as Internet of Things (IoT), Information Management, Data Analytics and cloud platforms
• Develop Enterprise principles, standards, and guidelines for enterprise solutions and strategic outlook
• Develop Governance for enterprise solution approvals
• Solution architecture reviews to insure alignment with Enterprise Architecture
• Develop templates for solution architectures and solution design documents
• Develop or update domain specific architectures (business architecture, application architecture, mobile architecture and data / information architecture)
• Other architect duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight (8) years of experience working in technical Information Technology roles within complex enterprise environments
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience developing solution architectures on projects across n-tiered platforms
• Expert knowledge of Information Architecture principles and techniques, data management, data integration and data quality platforms and tools
• Expert knowledge and experience in Dynamics CRM and Platforms
• Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working architecting solutions involving complex integration scenarios (multi-platform, competing technologies, SaaS and PaaS, Software as a Service)
• Knowledge of process re-engineering principles, requirements gathering, and middleware management
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple non-technical terms for various audiences
• Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Minimum 5+ years experience working in an Enterprise Architect role
• Experience communicating and presenting to senior executive management
• Minimum 5+ years experience developing and implementing standards, principles, guidelines, strategies and roadmaps for the enterprise
• Excellent customer service skills

Criminal background check is required.

David Aplin & Associates Inc., operating as Aplin, and its associated brands, CompuStaff and Impact Recruitment, is an award-winning employment agency connecting diverse, top-tier talent with exceptional organizations across North America. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and charge no fees to apply or engage with our recruiters. Our clients partner with us to help expand and diversify their teams. Please note that all applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada, including holding any necessary work permits.