SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST PROJECT LEAD

Bring your technical expertise and your strong project management skills to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Health Services I&IT Cluster, Health Solutions Delivery Branch, where you will manage and coordinate multiple complex development projects within a large development team.

What can I expect to do in this role?

In this role you will:

• Provide leadership for the development of testing strategies and frameworks that include performance testing, conformance testing and testing automation.
• Coordinate and conduct the analysis of business and information requirements in order to design and develop applications that meet the stated business requirements.
• Provide leadership on development teams engaged in the analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of large, complex Ministry applications.
• Oversee the development, testing, maintenance and support of system, application, design, user, and operations documentation.
• Lead the implementation of new and enhanced systems including ensuring the promotion of all system components into appropriate staging areas.
• Maintain the integrity and effectiveness of regression test databases.
• Provide authoritative direction and guidance to client organizations in a variety of subject areas to help the client meet different, interrelated goals and objectives.

How do I qualify?

BUSINESS ANALYSIS, CLIENT LIAISON AND COMMUNICATION:

• You have the ability to analyze and provide advice and recommendations to business clients to inform their business requirements.
• You have proven experience in developing complex data and process models and in leading the review of options for complete systems development and testing solution.
• You have proven experience in providing advice and recommendations to business clients at all levels on IT solutions to meet business requirements, including approaches to development and testing.
• You have demonstrated oral and written communications skills with the proven ability to interpret, understand and explain detailed information to business and technical audiences.
• You have demonstrated knowledge of the client's business to develop recommendations on appropriate solutions.

LEADERSHIP:

• You are experienced in planning and directing complex IT systems development, testing, and implementation tasks as part of large development teams.
• You have demonstrated experience in providing leadership, coaching/mentoring, guidance and technical expertise to other members of the IT development and test team.
• You have proven experience in leading IT system responses to business requirements, and in facilitating communications regarding requirements with the business stakeholders.

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT:

• You have demonstrated knowledge of standard methods and techniques for complex IT systems analysis including process and data modeling, and design and development techniques.
• You have proven experience in facilitating and reviewing client business requirements.
• You are experienced providing technical direction, mentoring and training to team members.
• You can demonstrate application knowledge to provide guidance to development and test teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• You have experience facilitating IT development, testing, promotion, implementation of web-based and mainframe applications.
• You are knowledgeable of IT development methodologies, industry-standard IT development and test tools and techniques including performance testing, conformance testing and testing automation.

GENERAL SKILLS:

• You have demonstrated knowledge of commonly used business software (e.g., word processing, spreadsheets) used in preparing IT systems development and testing documentation.
• You can demonstrate your experience in managing external vendor relationships.
• You possess demonstrated teamwork and collaborative skills.

All external applicants (including former employees of the Ontario Public Service) applying to a competition in a ministry or Commission public body must disclose (either in the cover letter or resume) previous employment with the Ontario Public Service. Disclosure must include positions held, dates of employment and any active restrictions as applicable from being rehired by the Ontario Public Service. Active restrictions can include time and/or ministry-specific restrictions currently in force, and may preclude a former employee from being offered a position with the Ontario Public Service for a specific time period (e.g. one year), or from being offered a position with a specific ministry (either for a pre-determined time period or indefinitely). The circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment.

Remember: The deadline to apply is Wednesday, October 9, 2013 11:59 pm EDT. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.