Senior Business Analyst ( 6 months contract )

Requisition ID: 187677
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Technology Solutions - Store Systems
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Nova Scotia; Ontario
City: Stellarton / Mississauga

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have an 8-month opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst. This role can be based out of one of our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON.

As a Senior Business Analyst with Sobeys, you will:

1. Act as a liaison and strategic partner to our business stakeholders to effectively guide them through our intake, road mapping and prioritization processes.
2. Execute on all Business Analysis activities/artifacts via our standardized Discovery gate.
3. Direct the development of business and system requirements through detailed analysis and by providing recommendations.
4. Work closely with the Application Developers to provide all system requirements translation and lead the high level design of the solution.
5. Participate in the leadership and influence cross-functional task forces or teams to identify and document functional requirements, workflow, information sources, and system specifications.
6. Hold requirements gathering sessions by identifying the right participants, preparing the appropriate material, reviewing the project scope, and identifying key assumptions.
7. Coordinate the development of comprehensive business cases with cost and benefit dimensions for proposed Information Technology projects that are used at management and executive levels for funding and scope decisions.
8. Develop and establish service level agreements.
9. Perform market research of emerging/available product functionality.
10. Assess scope and impact of client business needs and manage client expectations.
11. Act as a liaison between Business and IT teams to effectively manage enhancement product backlog items (intake, prioritization, resourcing).
12. Meet regularly with the user groups in all divisions to identify opportunities for enhancements.
13. Communicate functional developments and enhancements to user groups through various media (Web, Email, On-site training).
14. Contribute to the acceptance of applications and application enhancements via a formal test process.
15. Seek final sign-off of the detailed system requirements from the business sponsor.
16. Improve business processes by defining the existing “As-Is” process and the new “To-Be” process using proper methodologies.
17. Process documentation and testing.

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Your experience and resume will show us:

1. Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Business Experience with project management and software development disciplines.
2. Knowledge of emerging or available retail product functionality and solutions.
3. Extensive experience gathering business requirements, business process reengineering, application testing and project management.
4. IIBA Certification would be considered an asset.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a competitive compensation package, which varies by role. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.