Project Business Analyst
Role Overview
Project Business Analyst in the Ontario Public Service Professional Services team, supporting enterprise-wide technology initiatives.
Projects include web solutions, data migration, business intelligence, and process re-engineering in Agile and Waterfall environments.
Assignments vary in length and may involve moving between projects and Ministries.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Project Business Analyst in the Ontario Public Service Professional Services team, supporting enterprise-wide technology initiatives.
Projects include web solutions, data migration, business intelligence, and process re-engineering in Agile and Waterfall environments.
Assignments vary in length and may involve moving between projects and Ministries.
Key responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements through process modeling, re-engineering, JAD sessions, and interviews.
- Manage Agile/Scrum artifacts, including user stories and epics, from concept to release.
- Analyze technology solution requirements, communicate project updates, and maintain stakeholder engagement.
- Prepare build, implementation, handover, data mapping, and other project documentation.
- Recommend options to improve service efficiency and reduce costs; contribute to solution design, development, integration, maintenance, delivery, and testing.
- Move periodically to new assignments at Ministry client sites throughout the GTA and Oshawa.
Business analysis and project experience
- Hands-on experience in business analysis techniques, process modeling, re-engineering, JAD sessions, and interviews.
- Ability to evaluate options, priorities, service impacts, and cost savings, and provide project leadership.
- Experience in business modeling, use case modeling, data flow analysis, gap analysis, and solution evaluation.
- Experience developing business cases and project plans, monitoring deliverables, and managing requirements and issues.
- Knowledge of the system/software development life cycle, change management, QA, risk management, and business continuity planning.
Communication and delivery skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for business cases, reports, and recommendations.
- Experience building client and project-team relationships, negotiating, managing requirement changes, and securing cooperation.
- Ability to adapt to different perspectives and apply Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile methods.
- Hands-on knowledge of Agile practices, including sprints, planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives; able to create user stories and support Scrum teams.
- English is the position language and candidates are assessed in English.
Workplace and assignment locations
- Assignments are based at project-team locations at Ministry client sites throughout the GTA and Oshawa.
- The posting identifies Toronto and Oshawa locations; employees may periodically move to new project assignments.
Compensation and term
- One permanent English-language position.
- Salary is $1,628.82 to $2,104.14 per week under the OPSEU Collective Agreement.
Application notes
- Apply online by October 15, 2026.
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