Sr. Business Systems Analyst( Grossman Dorland Recruiting)career opportunity in Canada

Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Company: Grossman Dorland Recruiting
Location:Toronto, ON, Canada
Two Positions:
1. Functional BSA
2. Technical BSA

Are you a Business Systems Analyst who's in-tune with your users, possessing a nice blend of functional & technical expertise and who has led the design of large-scale applications? If you are, we may have a great opportunity for you with an industry-leading Fortune 500 Software Company. Their Toronto-based Product & Professional Services team has deployed their video platform to many of the world's leading Media and Telecommunications companies including Verizon, AT&T, Korea Telecom, Bell TV, Aliant, SaskTel, Telus and many others.

gdR (Grossman Dorland Recruiting) is currently working with this company to find two BSAs: a Functional BSA and a Technical BSA. The Sr. BSAs are part of their dynamic, tightly-knit Professional Services team that is based in Toronto and has over 100 people globally.

Responsibilities:

• - 6 month contract to start with high likelihood of extension. Rate is competitive for software BSAs.
• - Work as part of our client's professional services team, which includes engagement managers, solution architects, graphic design, UX, QA and development, to create consumer-focussed video solutions.
• - Agile environment, leveraging user stories, continuous integration, QA automation, etc.
• - Video platform includes ingestion, CMS, DRM, integration/workflow, publishing and streaming to mobile, web and set-top boxes.
• - Video platform requires approximately 50% customization as part of the professional services engagement, so there's lots of meat to these projects.
• - Become a SME on our client's video platform in order to create user stories, functional and technical designs with input from Solution Architects, Product Managers and the customer directly.
• - Technical BSAs will focus on API integrations (consume & expose to integrate with OSS/BSS/portals), system & application design (work closely with J2EE devs), application workflow design, data migration, etc.
• - Functional BSAs will focus on creation of user stories, ecommerce/portal applications functionality design, some limited UX design (often with help of UX Designer), workflow design, etc.
• - 20-30% travel should be expected, although this could be less depending on the project. Travel to visit clients to gather requirements and discuss the overall solution.
• - Platform stack includes J2EE, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Integration, noSQL, Oracle, Hibernate, REST & SOAP services, JBoss BPM, JBoss. Technical BSA should have a background with J2EE based applications, but doesn't require experience with all elements of the stack.

Requirements:

• - 4+ years experience as a business systems analyst in a software environment, ideally within a professional services environment where you've worked directly with external clients.
• - Enterprise-focussed BSAs will not be considered for the role. Candidates must have been a BSA in a software company, for a systems integrator or other organization where you've worked directly with the dev team developing the application.
• - Functional BSA requires consumer application experience (e.g., video, portals, ecommerce, mobile, web application, etc.).
• - Technical BSA requires a highly technical background that includes J2EE applications (and likely development), significant exposure to API integration, large scale application design, etc.
• - Agile experience required.
• - Proven ability to understand user needs, gather requirements and create user stories, specifications and designs.
• - Telco systems experience is ideal, such as integration with billing and provisioning systems.
• - Self-starter with the necessary drive to be successful in a fast-paced environment.
• - Success creating a positive, collaborative relationship with development and product management teams.
• - Extremely thorough organization skills, a keen sense of priority and a proven ability to pro-actively identify and resolve problems.
• - Strong written, verbal and active listening skills.

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