Senior Business Analyst

Location - This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton.

The Senior Business Analyst (SBA) serves as a strategic partner and lead advisor for enterprise-wide change initiatives. This role is responsible for identifying, documenting, and managing business requirements while providing expert analysis to optimize organizational processes. The SBA acts as a primary liaison between business units and technical teams, ensuring that transformation projects align with the company’s long-term strategic goals and deliver measurable value.

• Strategic Analysis: Lead the assessment of current business processes and systems to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for transformation.
• Requirements Management: Elicit, analyze, and document complex business and functional requirements using interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Solution Design: Collaborate with stakeholders to design future-state processes and evaluate potential solutions (technical and operational) for feasibility and ROI.
• Project Leadership: Act as the lead analyst on high-priority transformation projects, ensuring milestones are met and business value is realized.
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate communication between executive leadership, department heads, and IT to ensure transparency and consensus on project scope.
• Quality Assurance: Define acceptance criteria and oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure delivered solutions meet the original business intent.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field. An MBA or CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) designation is highly preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in business analysis, with a proven track record in large-scale business transformation or change management projects.
• Mastery of business modeling tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart, Miro), Agile/Waterfall methodologies, and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Exceptional negotiation and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate technical jargon into plain English for non-technical stakeholders.

Application Instructions

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This competition will be used to fill 2 positions.

This position is subject to all applicable terms and conditions of the collective agreement between the Governors of the University of Alberta and the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA).

This position offers a comprehensive benefits package.