IT Senior Business Analyst
About The Position
FCT is a company committed to the success of its employees, fostering innovation, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. It provides industry-leading title insurance, default solutions, and other real estate-related products and services across Canada. FCT is continually searching for talented individuals deeply committed to the customers and markets it serves, offering a challenging, purposeful, and growth-oriented career in a team-oriented environment. The company emphasizes that fostering a diverse and inclusive environment is critical for its business success.
Requirements
- Relevant post-secondary education
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in the business analysis discipline
- Real estate, insurance and/or financial industry knowledge
- In-depth understanding and experience with agile software methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.
- Proficiency in MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint)
- Familiarity with interface design and wireframe tools, such as Axure, Figma, etc.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both business and IT stakeholders, as well as onshore/offshore teams
- Stellar customer services skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Proven ability to support multiple projects/streams simultaneously
- Demonstrated experience leading a team of Business Analysts on a large project, managing the team’s workload distribution, providing feedback on deliverables and ensuring BA timelines are met
Responsibilities
- Act as a key stakeholder and team member that plays a critical role in delivering successful projects
- Create clear and comprehensive feature lists/product backlogs, comprised of functional and non-functional requirements
- Collaborate with the Product Owner and Scrum Master to prioritize scope and create release plans for the year
- Prepare high quality requirements deliverables (i.e. User Stories, Sprint Planner, Data Mapping/Elements, UI Mock-ups/Wireframes, Process Flow Diagrams, etc.)
- Lead and facilitate the review of the features/User Stories, and estimate associated BA work effort
- Participate in the distribution of features/User Stories into iterations/sprints
- Control changes to scope/requirements by assessing business value and priority
- Facilitate informative visual demonstrations of the delivered business value to project stakeholders at the end of each iteration/sprint
- Create clear, unambiguous and testable acceptance criteria for each requirement
- Engage business partners to participate in User Acceptance Testing and acquire UAT/sprint sign-offs
- Create comprehensive training plans, materials and communications prior to Production deployments
- Train end users and/or support personnel
- Participate in various scrum ceremonies (i.e. Sprint Planning, Backlog Reviews, Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, etc.)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation & employee benefits plan
- RRSP/Profit Sharing program
- Mentoring
- Innovative tools
- Variety of programs that engage and reward
- Comprehensive benefits that include Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) and Wellness Essentials
- Group retirement savings plan with company match
- Paid holidays
- Generous paid time off
- Hybrid work arrangements
- Paid volunteer opportunities
- Charitable donation matching
- Employee recognition programs that include referral incentives
- Potential for performance-based incentives
- Opportunity to participate in our stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
