Intermediate Business Analyst - Contract

Position: Intermediate Business Analyst

About Compugen

Compugen is one of Canada's largest privately-owned Information Technology (IT) Solution Providers. We help customers design, acquire, integrate and operate technology. Our mission is to help organizations realize new possibilities. Every day, our dedicated staff across North America focus on providing extraordinary customer service and support experiences to private and public sector organizations. We combine breadth of skill, depth of expertise, and commitment to operational excellence at scale to deliver exceptional, customer-focused experiences.

If you are driven to make a difference, relentlessly curious and collaborative at the core, we’d love to talk to you. Join us and help us make a difference.

Compugen is seeking an Intermediate Business Analyst for an initial 1 year contract working remotely. Candidate must currently reside within British Columbia.

Responsibilities:

• Provide core support to teams supporting a player experience initiative. These range from early stage business case definition, analysis and documentation to support design/redesign of foundational processes/systems, customization of vendor systems, operational support, and a variety of other analysis or team needs as required. The analyst will operate within either a waterfall, agile environment or a hybrid environment, and requires close collaboration with both internal and external vendor stakeholders.
• Partner with the Product owners/Business leads/Project Manager on road mapping, stakeholder engagement, and prioritization.
• Build and execute a solid business analysis (BA) approach to elicit, analyze and document/refine detailed user needs in requirements or other supporting artifacts as appropriate (working with internal stakeholders, vendors, other teams, etc.).
• Support in detailed system, policy, and user analysis needs, and gaps to ensure proper documentation.
• Support in current/future process definition and mapping of user and player experience.
• Support development team to understand needs and dependencies.
• Facilitate to guide conversations (requirement sessions, process analysis and design meetings, project meetings/agile ceremonies, etc.).
• Conduct technical operational support and troubleshooting as needed to support the product area.
• Provide 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 team
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of dedicated BA experience.
• Knowledge of IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) areas and techniques.
• Certifications preferred: CBAP, Six Sigma, PMP, ScrumMaster or Product Owner certification.
• Experience working with business users and subject matter experts to produce comprehensive requirements, gap analysis, current and future state design, and other analysis.
• An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.
• Company has an existing (at time of submission) and ongoing contract with Candidate.
  
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Solid skills in eliciting, creating and managing requirements, gained through applied work experiences (Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban).
• Process modelling.
• Player experience mapping.
• Workshop planning and facilitation.
• Business case development.
• Expertise in collaborating and managing successful delivery with external IT development partners.
• Intermediate to expert user of Visio, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Exceptional written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical thinking/innovation, and development of contingency plans for risks
  
  
  

Consistent with our commitments to equity and diversity, we actively recruit women, visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. We also provide employment accommodation upon request to current employees and to applicants during the recruitment process. We comply with human rights codes in all jurisdictions where we operate and aim to provide a work environment where excellence is allowed to flourish and diversity is prized. Compugen is committed to providing accommodation throughout the interview and employment process. If you require an accommodation, the hiring manager and the human resources contact will work with you to meet your needs.

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