There is a 6 month contract opportunity for a GIS Business Analyst – Senior in Ottawa.
Work would be done remotely until the pandemic situation normalizes.
Must haves:
- Reliability level Security clearance is mandatory.
- Experience working with GIS mapping technologies
- Experience with Data Analysis designing data and map transformations
- Experience in contributing to the success of a range of small-to-medium GIS initiatives with escalating levels of complexity and business criticality
- Must have strong negotiation and facilitation skills to ensure requirements are well understood and ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose
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Job Posting Title: Business Analyst – Senior
Job Posting Start Date: 09/28/2020
Job Posting End Date: 03/26/2021
6 months contract
Site: Ottawa
Location of Work
For now, remote until further notice regarding Covid-19 is over.
In general, The work is to be carried out of a Location in Ottawa (most likely March Road). Local candidate would be preferred, however, candidates from Toronto will also be considered.
Description: Background
Client is currently in the process of establishing an Enterprise Geospatial (GIS) Shared Service for the Canada Post Group of Companies. This includes managing legacy GIS systems, as well as investing in new technologies. A senior Business Analyst with GIS background is required to support this effort and assist with the functional analysis of our current and future solutions on a project-by-project basis.
Key Activities
- Requirements Management: elicit, analyze, define, validate and document business requirements
- Develop functional designs or detailed user stories / use cases
- Work closely with a Solution or Technical Architect(s) to ensure the solutions align with the business requirements
- Contribute to applicable architectural solution documents
- Assess and articulate any impacts of the solution on existing business and technical landscape
- Identify the current and future-state business processes
o Help the business stakeholders envision the future and how their work will need to change to support the future
o Determine operational objectives by studying critical business functions (“CBFs”), gathering information, evaluating output requirements and formats
GIS Business Analyst Skills and Experience Must Have
- Experience working with GIS mapping technologies
- Experience eliciting and documenting GIS-specific business requirements
- Experience with Data Analysis designing data and map transformations
- Understanding of map design and visualisation techniques
- Experience in contributing to the success of a range of small-to-medium GIS initiatives with escalating levels of complexity and business criticality
- Must have strong negotiation and facilitation skills to ensure requirements are well understood and ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose
Nice to Have
- Educational background in GIS or Spatial Analysis
- Experience working with Retail, Marketing or Logistics industries (or similar)
- Experience working with multiple GIS mapping technologies (either on premise or in the Cloud)
