Tech. Bus. Analyst, Data & Analytics Platform

Job Title: Technical Business Analyst – Data & Analytics Platforms

Vacancies: This posting is for (1) new role.

Location: Toronto, ON | Vancouver, BC | Victoria, BC | Ottawa, ON | Calgary, AB | Halifax, NS | St John's, NL | Kelowna, BC | Prince George, BC | Montreal, QC. Detailed office location information can be found by visiting

Work Model: Hybrid Work Model

Salary Band: 5 ($65,000 - $75,000 CAD)

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save lives, improve lives and drive collective action against cancer. Together with patients, volunteers, donors and communities across the country, we raise funds to invest in transformative cancer research, we provide a caring support system for everyone affected by cancer and we advocate to governments to create a healthier future for all. It takes a society to take on cancer – and the Canadian Cancer Society is leading the way.

The Technical Business Analyst plays a key role in enabling data‑informed choices by translating complex business needs into clear, actionable technical and analytics requirements across the organization’s data platforms and analytics ecosystem. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Engineering & Services, this role partners closely with business stakeholders, data analysts, data engineers, BI specialists, and delivery teams to ensure analytics and data solutions are well‑defined, scalable, and aligned to business priorities.

Day to day, the Technical Business Analyst facilitates discovery sessions, documents business and data requirements, validates data models and solution designs, and supports agile planning and delivery to ensure analytics solutions are fit for purpose, governed, and effectively adopted by the business.

• Discovery & Requirements Definition
  • Business Requirements Definition
    • Document business requirements, detailing essential needs, analytical use cases, and optional enhancements.
    • Identify gaps between business goals, business processes, and data platform capabilities.
    • Facilitate structured requirements gathering sessions with product leaders, SMEs, and cross‑functional business teams to interpret goals, outcomes, and success measures.
  • Data Platform Requirements
    • Evaluate data integration requirements across data platforms, CRM platform, fundraising platforms, volunteer systems, and external data sources.
    • Identify required data flows, source‑to‑target relationships, transformation considerations, data services functions and data quality needs to support organizational needs.
    • Validate proposed data models and solution designs with data and analytics teams.
    • Ensure requirements align with data governance standards and platform capabilities.
  • Advanced Analytics Requirements
    • Examine and define advanced analytics requirements, including predictive modeling, segmentation, experimentation, and feature needs.
    • Translate analytical questions and hypotheses into clear data, integration, and analytical requirements.
  • Solution Planning
    • Work with Data Analysts, Data Engineers, BI Specialists, QA, and Dev Ops to ensure requirements are clearly understood and reflected in proposed solutions.
    • Support solution planning by providing input on feasibility, impacts, considerations and constraints.
    • Support alignment between business requirements, solution components and testing activities.
  • Technical Documentation
    • Produce high quality solution documentation including process flows, data models, configuration requirements and supporting reference materials.
    • Maintain documentation of knowledge repositories and ensure materials stay current with evolving platform capabilities.
  • Quality Assurance Support
    • Clarify requirements, contribute to test scenario development and assist with defect analysis and triage.
    • Participate in release reviews and validation activities to confirm delivered functionality aligns with approved requirements.
  • Agile Planning & Delivery Support
    • Support planning team in translating business needs and planned outcomes into clear, actionable user stories and backlog items.
    • Assist with refining acceptance criteria, breaking down work items and providing input to…