Business Systems Analyst, Consultant - Toronto, Canada - Project X

Project X

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About Project X
Project X Ltd.

drives success by focusing on building teams of incredibly talented and client-focused people, who love to problem solve and work on tough data problems.

We reward hard work and forward-thinking with recognition and a supportive culture that celebrates success and wants to see you grow.

Our team members are trusted advisors to our clients and offer innovative solutions that solve complex data problems. Collaboration, creativity, data knowledge and experience run deep in our veins. We are passionate about building long-term relationships with our clients and staying true to our values. When adding new members to our team, we also look for people that are aligned to our values.
We are also passionate about our people.

Hiring and developing people that seek challenges, like to jump in and learn new things, and are happy to lend a helping hand to a peer is what makes us successful.

We understand that it's our people that make us great.

Role Summary

The Consultant, Business Systems Analyst works with internal and external stakeholders including the technology and business teams to develop and implement data solutions tailored to a project's requirements.

The nature of the projects varies from Waterfall to Agile and technology varies from legacy to cutting edge.

They are involved throughout the project lifecycle by capturing and documenting requirements, test strategy/plans, test cases, execution of testing, sign off and implementation into production.

They are supported by team members and the Practice Manager.
This position does not have any direct reports.

Major areas of Responsibility

Delivery Excellence
Develop a deep, multilayered understanding of the business issues and the data challenges of the clients' organizations and their industries.
Ensure requirements are clear and complete, eliminating uncertainties and ambiguities.
Establish the quality of solutions through validation against the requirements.
Demonstrate collegial teamwork internally and with clients, by communicating clearly with all project team members to identify and resolve issues for delivery success.
Escalate issues promptly when required.
Participate in the development of project plans to establish appropriate workload expectations and schedules.
Own the responsibility to meet deadlines and strive to complete work in accordance with project plans.
Innovation
Contribute to lessons learned and process improvements.
Maintain an uptodate knowledge of, and adopt, relevant market trends and practices.
Drive and Own Requirements
Gather all requirements that are a part of the overall project.
Develop a requirement matrix and identify any gaps.
Create detailed, functional and nonfunctional requirements documents, review and obtain sign off from key stakeholders.
Provide ongoing updates and review throughout the project lifestyle.
Testing & Deployment
Create test strategy/plans.
Create and execute test cases.
Regression testing if required, defect management.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other

Detailed, practical working knowledge in:

SLDC methodologies, specifically Agile
SQL, Teradata, or Oracle
Databases, data warehouses, analytics and reporting
MS Office

General knowledge in:

MS Project
Analytics / Business Intelligence tools (MicroStrategy, Tableau. Cognos, Looker)
Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) or Big Data (Hadoop, Hive, Impala)

Above average skills in:

Communication
Innovation, creative, solutionbased approaches to solving problems
Levelheaded decision making and ability to think on your feet
Time management, prioritizing effectively while delivering high quality work
Collaborating with internal teams (Project X ltd.), external teams (nonProject X 3rd parties), and client team members
Leadership and integrity
Documentation
Meeting deadlines and commitments
Adapting and being flexible

Demonstrated skills in:

Documenting requirements, e.g., BRD, Use Cases & User Stories
Working independently
Approaching situations with a consultative mindset:
Be receptive to change while maintaining adherence to scope, deliverables and project objectives
Defer issues as open questions to be addressed and followup with closure actions
Recognize and highlight scope changes early and manage expectations on achievability
Maintain open communications with Project X regarding client relations & project status.

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Software or Computer Science/Engineering fields or related industry experience or acumen
Around 35 years' experience on technical projects including 3 as a Business Systems Analyst
Experience in Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Projects
SLDC methodologies, specifically Agile
ETL experience
Prior experience as a Data Analyst is an asset

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