Intermediate Business Analyst needed to provide team support to a Transformation initiative with primary focus on the front end and back systems.

Intermediatte Business Analyst needed to provide team support to a Transformation initiative with primary focus on the front end and back systems. The analysis will provide analysis and documentation to support design/redesign of foundational systems, customization of vendor systems, operational support, and a variety of other analysis or team needs as required. This BA will be operating in an agile team and requires close collaboration with both internal and external vendor stakeholders. 
 
Successful collaboration and delivery of the following:

• Partner with the Product owners/Business leads/Senior BAs, Project Manager on planning, stakeholder engagement, backlog management and prioritization
• Build, execute and advocate a solid BA approach to elicit, analyze and document/refine detailed user needs in user stories or other supporting artifacts as appropriate (working with internal Stakeholders, vendors, other agile teams, etc)
• Serve as Scrum master role and facilitate conversations (requirement sessions, refinement meetings, sprint planning, retro, standup, etc)
• Support in detailed system and user analysis needs and gaps and ensure proper documentation
• Support in current/future process definition and mapping of user and player experience
• Support dev team to understand needs and dependencies
• Technical operational support and troubleshooting as needed to support the product area
• Partner and support agile coaches in adopting agile practice
• Proactive support to assigned teams
• Advocate for  BA best practices
• Provide regular status and issues reporting to the  Project Manager
• May be required to learn basic knowledge of other capability areas in the team and/or systems where needed to support the team
• Conduct other tasks as reasonably required by the Project Manager or assigned agile team

 
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
The successful candidate should demonstrate the following qualifications and/or experience:

• A degree in a related discipline
• Minimum 4-6 years of Intermediate level BA experience supporting medium to large scale IT initiatives in an agile environment
• Extensive BA experience involving analysis of backend and front-end customer experience, system integrations and data migration is critical.
• Intermediate skills in eliciting, creating and managing requirements under agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban);
• Intermediate skills in planning and leading cross-functional workshops for business/technical requirements or process assessments;
• Expertise in process analysis and documentation, and information modelling;
• Intermediate to advanced user of JIRA, Confluence, and Visio
• Ability to validate proposed solutions against business needs, strategize solution implementation and identify implementation risks;ts;
• CBAP, CSM, CSPO candidates are preferred
• Experience working with SAP is an asset
• Understanding of B.C. gaming industry and experience