Business Analyst

Long View. A career that helps you get more out of life.

A Long View career helps you get more out of life. We don’t just say it, we prove it. Every day. We’re proud of our reputation as one of North America’s most dynamic IT providers — and we’re even prouder of our culture that allows our people to live life to its fullest. At Long View, we create an environment of collaboration and support, of innovation and enthusiasm, of inclusion and belonging. As a member of the Long View team, you’ll see how our company’s core pillars — Integrity, Competence, Value, and Fun — resonate through the workplace. And in a recent survey, 89% of Long View team members rated Long View as a good or great place to work!

Are you passionate about technology and working for a company that values fun?

We are looking for a passionate and dynamic Senior Business Analyst for our Edmonton office who will deliver consultative services directly to our client and build relationships with stakeholders and project teams! This role starts as a 6 month contract with a possibility of extension.

A Day in the Life::
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Perform analysis, design and implement industry leading Data Analytics and Digital transformation solutions

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Create detailed documentation including conceptual design, logical design, knowledge transfer materials, FAQs, and transition to operations documents

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Manage requirements traceability and requirements status throughout the project

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Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools

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Establish and implement effective requirements practices, including use and continuous improvement of a requirements process.

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Assist with the development of the organization’s requirements, engineering policies, procedures, and tools

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Implement ways to reuse requirements across projects

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Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards

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Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents and work products derived from requirements specifications to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly

What You Bring::
• A minimum of 7 years of Business Analysis experience across a wide range of technologies including enterprise systems, data analytics and cloud offerings

• Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information

• Listening skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say

• Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements

• Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops

• An understanding of contemporary requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice

• Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to clients and their various lines of business, including senior management and C level executives

• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information

• Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as clients, management, and engineering)

• Modeling skills, to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language

What Makes You Extra Awesome::
• Business Systems Analysis Certification (ECBA, ECBA+, CCBA, CBAP)

• Business Process Management and methodology certifications (CBPA, CBPP, CBPL)

Why Work at Long View::
• Great people and culture

• Interesting work – Be part of exciting projects while accessing all the latest technologies

• Flexible environment – A workplace that values the importance of flexibility for personal/professional growth, happiness and wellness

Want to learn more about our culture and life at Long View? Check us out on LinkedIn and Instagram!

Long View’s mission of building the best and most sustainable team-driven organization requires dedicated and ambitious people. Through employee resource groups, impactful and effective conversations, townhalls and various company-wide training, including how to reduce unconscious bias, we are fostering an inclusive environment. We are committed to taking consistent, positive and lifelong action to be a diverse and equitable workplace because we know that the most effective companies are made up of people with varied identities, experiences and backgrounds.

Long View is an equal opportunity employer. If you have any accommodation requests for your interview or the role, please let your friendly Recruiter know