Business Systems Analyst, BSA

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About the role

  • Business Systems Analyst translating AI business needs into testable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Managing Agile backlogs, stakeholder decisions, testing, and releases for Canadian IT consulting clients.

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery sessions to understand business outcomes, current-state processes, pain points, and desired future-state capabilities
  • Use process mapping, user journeys, personas, business rules analysis, use cases, and workflow modeling to uncover complete requirements
  • Identify gaps, assumptions, dependencies, edge cases, impacts, conflicting stakeholder needs, missing decisions, downstream impacts, and implementation risks
  • Define user interactions, process impacts, governance considerations, business rules, and success metrics for AI-enabled business solutions
  • Translate ambiguous business requests into detailed functional and non-functional requirements
  • Drive requirements to an implementation-ready state with minimal downstream clarification
  • Ensure requirements are complete, traceable, testable, and aligned to business objectives
  • Partner with stakeholders to challenge assumptions and uncover unmet or unstated needs
  • Complete process decomposition exercises as required
  • Own work from requirements through implementation
  • Create requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans
  • Maintain and prioritize the product backlog
  • Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, demonstrations, retrospectives, and releases as appropriate
  • Maintain RAID logs, dependencies, milestones, and delivery plans
  • Identify issues early and proactively drive resolution
  • Provide clear, fact-based status reporting to stakeholders
  • Utilize Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) to support delivery activities
  • Work directly with senior business, analytics, data, and technology stakeholders
  • Manage competing priorities and facilitate stakeholder decision-making
  • Communicate risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and impacts effectively
  • Work independently with minimal management oversight

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in business analysis within a matrixed environment
  • Strong business analysis experience
  • Experience participating in or leading requirements gathering exercises
  • Prior experience with AI-related projects and solutions
  • Demonstrated ability to manage requirements phase activities and deliverables
  • Excellent requirements gathering and analytical problem-solving skills
  • Strong Agile delivery experience, including backlog management, user stories, sprint planning, prioritization, testing, and releases
  • Proven ability to work effectively with challenging stakeholders and competing priorities
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to operate effectively within a fast-moving and complex organization
  • Experience working with enterprise HR functions and stakeholders (preferred)
  • Strong understanding of HR processes and functions (preferred)
  • Experience working with global organizations and cross-functional teams (preferred)
  • Agile, Scrum, or Project Management certification (preferred)
  • Strong understanding of how AI can solve business problems and create business value (preferred)
  • Experience supporting AI-focused projects and programs from a requirements and testing perspective (preferred)
  • Experience leveraging generative AI tools to support requirements and testing activities (preferred)

Benefits

  • 8-month contract duration

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Azure

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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