Senior Business Analyst

Overview

Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level E

Staff - Non Union

Job Category M&P - AAPS

Job Title Senior Business Analyst

Department OCIO | Program Delivery | Project Management Office

Compensation Range $9,859.25 - $15,380.75 CAD Monthly

The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date January 29, 2026

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date October 31, 2026

Employment Type This is a full-time, fixed-term appointment, for a duration of 12 months.

Statement At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Office of the CIO (OCIO) has an extensive list of investment requests for IT enabled projects from across the University. The execution of the portfolio of projects extends out over at least the next five years, and new projects are being added to the pipeline on a regular basis. The execution of each project within the portfolio is approximately one year and the resources from each project will transition from one project to next upon completion of the delivery of each project.

These projects will be managed within the Program Delivery office. The Program Delivery office is seeking a Senior Business Analyst.

The Senior Business Analyst analyzes business needs and develops overall strategies for how automated systems can be used to support the short- and long-term direction of the business.

The Senior Business Analyst provides expertise in the areas of business process discovery and definition, requirements definition, analysis and design, configuration, implementation, testing, training, facilitation and documentation to deliver enterprise solutions to the UBC community. The Senior Business Analyst will own and drive the business analysis process. The Senior Business Analyst will be expected to manage portions of the project life cycle in regards to the business analysis phases including preparing project plans, schedules and strategies, and communicating status, risks, issues and decisions to project managers.

The Senior Business Analyst works within the project team that consists of developers, functional experts, and other project specialists, and reports directly to the Senior PMO Operations Manager. The Senior Business Analyst will work closely with senior leadership and staff in other administrative and academic units.

Specific Duties

• Plan, organize, manage, monitor and be responsible for the business analysis activities of projects.
• Understand business context, project justification, business goals, and priorities and update and maintain documentation on such.
• Understand and apply business architecture concepts to ensure strategic alignment with organizational goals, outcomes and business value.
• Recommend types of working groups, and leads working groups to support the discovery and analysis of business processes and requirements and the design of new solutions.
• Document current state business process, capture issues and opportunities and understand proposed future state, identifying gaps to achieve that state.
• Develop business requirements documents, solutions requirements documents, functional requirements.
• Partner with and support architects in the creation of current and future state architecture.
• Create process maps, data maps, data model, data flow diagrams and work with and support data architects.
• Collaborate with integration architects to design integrations.
• Prepare RFPs, including functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in developing RFP scoring mechanisms and facilitating and managing the scoring processes.
• Recommend options for the implementation of business solutions.
• Support change management by working with change management teams, creating training materials, and managing training when required.
• Provide guidance and leadership to testing teams (end users etc.) and/or develops user test cases and validates test results during user acceptance testing, system acceptance testing and operational acceptance testing.
• Lead and conduct workflow and gap analysis for operational support processes.
• Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the university s technical and business environment.
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the business analysis methodology…