Business Analyst Ii - Vancouver, Canada - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level D

Job Title

Business Analyst II

Department

OCIO | Automation Solution Delivery

Compensation Range

$8, $12,575.08 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

April 24, 2024

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Office of the CIO (OCIO) has an extensive list of investment requests for IT enabled projects from across the University.

The execution of the portfolio of projects extends out over at

least the next five years, and new projects are being added to the pipeline on a regular basis. The execution of each project within the portfolio is approximately one year and the resources

from each project will transition from one project to next upon completion of the delivery of each project. These projects will be managed within the Program Delivery office. The Program

Delivery office is seeking a Business Analyst II.

The Business Analyst II analyzes business needs and develops overall strategies for how automated systems can be used to support the short
- and long-term direction of the business.

The Business Analyst II provides expertise in the areas of business process discovery and definition, requirements definition, analysis and design, configuration, implementation,

Organizational Status

The Business Analyst II works within the project team that consists of senior business analysts, developers, functional experts, and other project specialists, and reports directly to the Senior Project Manager.

The Business Analyst II will work closely with senior leadership and staff in other administrative and academic units.

Work Performed

Specific Duties:

Plan, organize, manage, monitor and be responsible for the business analysis activities of projects.
Understand business context, project justification, business goals, and priorities and update and maintain documentation on such
Recommend types of working groups, and leads working groups to support the discovery and analysis of business processes and requirements and the design of new solutions.
Document current state business process, capture issues and opportunities and understand proposed future state, identifying gaps to achieve that state.
Develop business requirements documents, solutions requirements documents, functional requirements.
Partner with and support architects in the creation of current and future state architecture.
Create process maps, data maps, data model, data flow diagrams and work with and support data architects.
Collaborate with integration architects to design integrations.
Recommend options for the implementation of business solutions.
Provide guidance and leadership to testing teams (end users etc.) and/or develops user test cases and validates test results during user acceptance testing, system acceptance testing and operational acceptance testing.
Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the university's technical and business environment.
Participate in the continuous improvement of the business analysis methodology via recommendations and suggestions, lessons learned and working groups.
Actively seeks ongoing career development through selfmotivated professional development in the field of business analysis

Core Duties:

Analyzes business needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes).
Develops overall strategies and provides advice on options, risks and costs versus benefits.
Manages liaison relationship with clients to ensure technical solutions meet user needs.
Conducts feasibility studies and drafts proposals for evaluation by appropriate users and managers.
Leads short and longterm planning sessions to implement integrated business process improvements.
Identifies, elicits, and documents business requirements, defines business rules and communicates requirements for the implementation of business solutions.
Prepares functional, system and program specifications bridging multiple projects.
Reviews test plans and monitors