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About the Role

Our client, a pension plan provider, is looking to hire a Senior Business Analyst to own data capabilities end-to-end, from problem definition and solution design to production deployment and ongoing accountability.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, document, and own business and data requirements using business requirements documents, user stories, acceptance criteria, BPMN, data flow diagrams, and source to target mapping specifications.
• Perform hands-on data analysis, querying source and target systems for data profiling, reconciliation, transformation validation, and correctness verification.
• Facilitate design sessions and workshops with investment, operations, risk, performance, and finance stakeholders, translating business intent to technical design and vice versa.
• Define problems, shape solutions with engineers and architects, and ensure capabilities are production-ready and functional.
• Transform multiple similar requests into one extensible capability by identifying underlying gaps and designing for the general case.
• Design for operability, including defining support models, monitoring, controls, and documentation for operations teams.
• Define and execute business test plans, including integration, performance, and regression testing.
• Participate in defect triage, root cause analysis, and resolution across environments.
• Write requirements and acceptance criteria for engineers and vendors, and review system integrator deliverables.
• Identify gaps and escalate issues regarding quality or completeness.
• Operate across Agile and waterfall delivery models, maintaining clear documentation and communication of scope, deliverables, and timelines.
• Build a working understanding of the current investment data and platform environment to define target state requirements.
• Support the current environment to build transition knowledge, including investigating data issues, tracing lineage, and validating behavior during migration.
• Become a subject matter expert on platforms, serving as the go-to person for data behavior.
• Build and maintain data documentation, including data dictionaries, lineage, metadata, and knowledge base articles.
• Apply change management principles, including stakeholder impact assessment, end-user training, and communications, to ensure adoption.

Requirements

• 7+ years as a Business Analyst or Data Analyst supporting investment platforms, investment accounting, order management, risk, performance, or data warehouse initiatives.
• Experience working on large-scale transformation, migration, or data modernization programs.
• Expert-level SQL skills, including writing complex joins and aggregations.
• Ability to perform data profiling and reconciliation.
• Ability to investigate and resolve data quality issues independently.
• Strong understanding of relational and dimensional data models.
• Experience with requirements gathering and stakeholder management.
• Experience with business process modeling.
• Experience with user story creation.
• Experience with source-to-target mapping and data lineage documentation.

Skills

• SQL
• Data Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Process Modeling
• User Story Creation
• Source-to-Target Mapping
• Data Lineage Documentation
• Agile Methodologies
• Waterfall Methodologies

Location

• Toronto, ON

Work Type

• Contract
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $70.00 - $90.00/hr

About the Company

• Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

Equal Opportunity

• The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
• If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.