Location Address: Hybrid - 333 King Street East, Toronto –3 days/week onsite, no exceptions (which days will depend on project squad, TBD)
Contract Duration: ASAP to 04/30/2026 - approx. 4 months
Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday;standard 37.5 hrs/week
Reason: New project
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering –Microservices –team is responsible to work on microservices for mobile and web digital banking applications
Project: To support the Fired Up (FUSE) project –BSA will support card servicing area pertaining to debit or credit card Lifecyle –replacement, loss, provisioning, wallet
Candidate Value Proposition:
• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at a top 5 Canadian bank with the opportunity for extension
- The candidate will be working with Scotia Digital on the latest tech stack - an extremely fast-paced, forward-thinking, and constantly changing environment
• Opportunity to work on the project at a business level and have insight and input into overall project
Typical Day in Role:
• Analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation
• Ensure integrity of the business and technical requirements in the end-to-end customer journey
• Drive joint application design solutioning sessions with our architecture, development, and security
architecture teams that inform high-level estimates for large and medium-sized incoming initiatives
• Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract
requirements, and turn them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc. To meet
development and stakeholder needs
• Lead enterprise process engineering development across infrastructure, Security, DevOps and cryptography teams
• Create, refine and maintain the product backlog and associated deliverables;release backlog with forecasted delivery timelines
• Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business
alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (such as
reporting, performance, interfaces, and constraints.)
• Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 10+ years of progressive experience as a Business Systems Analyst in a challenging IT system solution environment
2) 5+ years of hands-on experience with REST API's and microservices
3) 5+ years’experience working with API documents using either Swagger or OpenAPI
4) 4+ years’experience creating BSA artifacts –user stories, sequence diagrams, flow, UML diagrams etc.
5) Recent experience from FI/banking
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experience as a Delivery Lead or Scrum master (scrum master preferred)
2) Experience with system analysis on enterprise level solutions
3) Experience with estimating high level work efforts
4) 5+ years of experience in an agile environment –agile/lean evangelist
5) Client/ BNS experience is a plus
Soft Skills Required:
• Detail Oriented. You notice all the little details for every document/requirement/conversation that comes across you, and it drives you crazy that others cannot keep everything consistent.
- Self - Motivated. You do good work, and lots of if;the drive to deliver quality work is just a part of you. You are also able to simplify complex situations and navigate ambiguity.
• Communicator/Negotiator. You are great at making sure everyone's speaking the same language and are on the same page, and sometimes that involves some give and take.
• Multi-tasker. You can multi-task and work on multiple initiatives at the same time.
Education:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering or Computer Science degree
Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate is a strong BSA ideally from banking background and has senior BSA skillset, can lead and make decisions;if they have experience from BNS would be a huge plus as project is working on BNS domain specifically;Able to drive high level estimation conversation of work with architect to provide idea of how many sprints or how many workdays. Strong with APIs, microservices and API documents;able to talk through how to create sequence, flow and UML diagrams.
Candidate Review & Selection
1st round - 1 hour –MS Teams Video Interview –with HM and other BSAs on the team
30 minutes –Case study –shared live in interview for candidates to respond and come up with sequence diagrams and answers live
30 minutes –BSA artifacts, best practices, experience
• *Note: Please ensure the candidates’experience is accurately reflected in the CV/matrix –no embellishments, please vet candidates beforehand (e.G. They are a QA but are submitted to BSA role). Same manager had issues with previous submissions not being accurate.
Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: ASAP
• **NOTE: *** will review any requests for accommodations put forward by Suppliers***
