Senior Business Analyst (Contract) – Information Technology

Alberta Blue Cross is seeking multiple senior business analyst (contractors) to work with IT and business stakeholders to ensure technology aligns with business needs. This includes analyzing processes, gathering requirements, and ensuring solutions align with corporate strategy.

Requirements

• Completion of a software development technical institute or university diploma/degree program
• A minimum of ten years direct experience in business analysis
• Strategic advisory: Ability to drive decision-making and influence senior leaders by providing strategic insights, clear recommendations, and data-driven justifications for investments and initiatives.
• Communication: ability to convey information effectively to various stakeholders, both verbally and in writing. Ability to work with stakeholders across different functions and levels.
• Problem-solving: ability to evaluate options, balance priorities, and drive sound business decisions.
• Strong facilitation skills that will be utilized in conducting user workshops to define requirements.
• Requirements gathering: strong ability to gather, analyze, and document business and IT requirements.
• Demonstrated strong proficiency in Unified Modeling Language (UML), including but not limited to activity diagrams, use cases, sequence diagrams etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with both the user community and technical teams.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office and Visio.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to pay persistent attention to detail, while maintaining an overall view of the situation and the big picture.
• Ability to multitask and meet the challenges of a fast-paced changing environment.
• Working knowledge of/experience with Project Management body of knowledge and software development methodologies would be beneficial.