Are you an experienced business analyst with a passion for data and information management? Join the Data Development Unit, Health Data Branch at the Ministry of Health as a Senior Business Analyst, where you'll lead the analysis, design, and implementation of data collection, acquisition, and special projects that support health system planning, branch operations, and data management initiatives. In this role, you'll help shape business and data requirements, and solutions that advance the ministry's Data & Digital Action Plan and ensure the effective use of Ontario's health data assets.
About the job
As a Senior Business Analyst in the Data Development Unit, you will:
• provide project leadership in the development and implementation of multiple concurrent Branch data and information management projects;
• perform end-to-end business and data analysis to evaluate client's business goals to ensure future data collections and acquisitions aligns with client needs and data management best practices;
• develop and document business and data requirements and specifications to guide technical implementation;
• develop business proposals and conduct options analysis that assess costs, benefits and risks to develop and deliver total solutions;
• evaluate technology solutions and opportunities to ensure alignment with Ministry program area needs and requirements.
What you bring to the team
Business Analysis and Data Management Skills:
You can:
• perform comprehensive business analysis and requirements gathering to evaluate the underlying business goals/drivers of the client to ensure future solutions aligns with client needs;
• facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to elicit, clarify, and document business and data requirements;
• translate business data needs into structured documentation including data specifications, data models, data dictionaries and metadata artifacts;
• prepare detailed business requirements, use cases, process models, gap analysis, options papers and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills:
You can:
• conceptualize and evaluate data and IT and options, solutions and performance metrics;
• develop recommendations to meet legislative requirements and business needs.
Project Management:
You can:
• lead projects for developing data solutions and provide expertise and guidance to business and technical teams;
• plan, organize and schedule work, establish priorities and co-ordinate and oversee project activities;
• provide technical direction to resolve contentious issues.
Technical Knowledge and Skills:
You have:
• the ability to acquire and apply data management best practices, current and emerging technology requirements to ensure alignment with legislative, corporate and industry standards;
• the ability to acquire and apply ministry and Health Services Cluster decision-making structures and processes to provide recommendations and facilitate senior management decision-making.
Communication and Interpersonal Skills:
• you have demonstrated consultation and negotiation skills to elicit and define business requirements and needs, manage expectations, balance and address competing issues to support project timelines;
• you have strong written and oral communication skills to prepare submissions, requirements and planning documents, reports, briefing decks and materials and correspondence;
• you can present proposals to client and senior management;
• you can interview clients and explain technical concepts to audiences who may not be familiar with data concepts and terminology.
How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility
We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.
We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
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Human Rights Code. Refer to the "How to apply" section if you require a disability-related accommodation.