SENIOR TECHNICAL ANALYST (DATA STRATEGY ROADMAP)
Requisition #: R22-2637
Location: Edmonton, AB (On-site / Remote / Hybrid)
Engagement Type: Contract
Number of Resources required: 1
Rate: Up to $75 per hour
Term: 5 months (October 24, 2022 to March 31, 2023) with 12-month extension
Hours per day: 7.25
Submit to Tri-global: October 18, 2022 (on or before 12:00 PM Mountain Time)
Closing Date: October 20, 2022 (10:00 AM Mountain Time)
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Tri-global Solutions Group Inc. is seeking one (1) Senior Technical Analyst (Data Strategy) to join our team at Service Alberta to support the Data Unit within the Government of Alberta.
The successful contractor(s) have an anticipated October 24, 2022 start date for a 5-month contract (ending March 31, 2023) with 12-month extensions available (total contract term up to 17 months).
NOTES ON LOCATION: There is a possibility the resource may be able to work remotely, though must be available for onsite meetings when required. The client’s office is located at North Petroleum Tower, 9945 – 108 Street, Edmonton, Alberta. Standard Hours of work are 08:15 – 16:30 Alberta time. Remote work must be done from within Canada, due to network and data security issues. The client does not pay for travel to attend on-site meetings.
Please review the project overview and requirements below. If you meet the requirements and are interested in submitting for this role, please reply to this job posting.
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Thank you.
Warm regards,
Jesse Smith
Tri-global Solutions Group Inc.
Melton Building – 3rd Floor
300, 10310 Jasper Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T5J 2W4
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Data Unit requires support in order to deliver data strategy roadmap items.
The Government of Alberta’s (GOA) data strategy implementation leverages a cloud-based Data Fabric approach to organizing and managing GoA data assets. The Data unit is expected to support the development and delivery of various data products and services (e.g. analytical models, data dashboards, visualizations, etc.). This will enable data access to GoA stakeholders in support of critical analytical, policy, and legislative functions, processes, and activities.
The position will function as a Business Analyst and will be responsible for supporting a newly formed data center of excellence that delivers data products or related components to enable data access, analytics and economy to support data-informed decision-making. This role works with other individuals within the Data Unit, and across the organization, to discover, document, analyze and track business requirements that enable effective development and delivery of data products and components as enterprise assets. The role focuses on delivering business analysis artifacts, e.g. requirement management plans, user personas/journey maps , requirement traceability matrices, functional requirement specifications, with agility, focus on business outcomes, innovation, and transformation to ensure data is treated as a corporate asset. This role supports the Data Product Delivery team in identification, evaluation and recommendation, and delivery of data products and product opportunities for the GoA and its external partners (as needed).
The efforts of this role improve access to and informed use of GoA data assets both within and outside of government in support of policy analysis, program planning, and decision-making. This role requires the ability to think and work critically across the organization, as well as diving deeper on both data and information topics related to data access, data governance, and the data economy. Doing this work requires the role to work closely with other Analysts and Managers (and above) across the department to design, provide advice, and prepare recommendations for data product delivery.
The position participates in variety of interactions in and outside the department, which includes presentation, mediation and negotiation to/with clients, vendors, peers and decision makers in order to achieve consensus in understanding of complex relationships in information and data requirements of various internal and external clients and business units.
ADDITIONAL DELIVERY DETAILS
General Responsibilities (any or all):
– Lead or facilitate meetings and workshops with GOA departments, clients, stakeholders, and project teams. (GOA-internal and/or external.)
– Lead or support identifying, gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements from several business areas.
– Document data product requirements.
– Create or support stakeholder analyses.
– Lead or support process mapping.
– Facilitate business process improvement sessions.
– Design and develop flow and relationship diagrams, including but not limited to process flow, data flow, entity relationship.
– Support processes mapping, e.g. privacy impact assessments (PIA), security threat and risk assessment (STRA), architectural.
– Perform or support translating business requirements into detailed technical requirements and functional specifications.
– Support data product designs to ensure they meet business requirements.
– Capture and document business and technical metadata for data products.
– Provide support by collecting and compiling information from external stakeholders, GOA departments, and Service Alberta teams.
– Perform gap analyses.
– Align information and data management and application initiatives.
– Collaborate on shared strategies and projects.
– Provide data translation services to GoA departments and other internal or external clients.
– Create new business and technical processes and complete business process reviews/re-engineering for existing processes.
– Prepare presentations/demonstrations for engagement with stakeholders, steering committees, project groups and other stakeholders
– Represent corporate and operations interests in planning with government departments.
– Support the development of processes to enable sustainable data product delivery.
– Support the development of business cases and procurements.
– Coordinate approvals and sign-offs.
– Contribute to training strategy, modules, and content pertaining to usage of technical platforms and tools.
– Plan, monitor, document, and/or perform User Acceptance Testing.
– Develop test scripts and testing plans and documentation.
– Create or assist with creating project documents and associated planning documents.
– Lead or support project status meetings and other meetings as required.
– Provide support by bridging communication between vendors, client departments, and corporate technical and business teams.
– Make recommendations to project teams pertaining to issues, risks, and client satisfaction.
– Raise awareness of emerging issues that require senior or executive involvement
– Collaborate with various GoA staff and contractors across departments.
Deliverables:
– Specific deliverables and due dates will be determined by the client team in conjunction with project management.
– Status reports – weekly and monthly.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Responsible for taking business requirements and translating them into technical requirements and solutions.
MANDATORY SKILLS
– The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following: (8+ years)
– Experience working with clients/stakeholders to identify, gather, document, and analyze business data and process requirements (5+ years)
– Experience translating business requirements to technical requirements (5+ years)
– Experience in developing, implementing and operating Information and Data Management frameworks (3+ years)
– Experience dealing with business clients and technical teams and explaining complex data principles in a thoughtful manner (2+ years)
– Experience creating flowcharts/diagrams/analyses, including but not limited to activity, process flow, data flow, entity relationship, mind map, roadmap/plan, gap analysis, organizational chart, SWOT analysis, RACI matrix, UI wireframes, user personas/journey maps (5+ years)
– Proposed resource must be willing and able to work full-time, in-person in client office(s) in Edmonton, Alberta and/or work remotely, at the client’s discretion (No funding will be provided by the client for relocation or travel to work or meetings)
– Proposed resource must have own computer equipment and be comfortable using it for completion of work required by this contract
DESIRABLE / NICE TO HAVE SKILLS
– Experience working with clients/stakeholders to identify, gather, document, and analyze business data and process requirements (5+ years)
– Experience translating business requirements to technical requirements (5+ years)
– Perform IT and/or business-related analysis, diagnosis, problem-solving, communication, presentations, planning, estimating, and documentation (5+ years)
– Experience with data governance (1+ years)
– Experience assisting clients execute strategies with technology, process, organizational design, and IT operations (5+ years)
– Experience creating flowcharts/diagrams/analyses, including but not limited to activity, process flow, data flow, entity relationship, mind map, roadmap/plan, gap analysis, organizational chart, SWOT analysis, RACI matrix, UI wireframes, user personas/journey maps (5+ years)
– Experience creating new technical and/or business processes (5+ years)
– Experience with BI/data visualization tools (above and beyond spreadsheet software) as an end-user and/or in projects to implement such tools in a large enterprise environment (3+ years)
– Experience in Agile Projects (1+ years)
– Experience in planning, monitoring, documenting, and performing User Acceptance Testing (5+ years)
– Experience working for or in an organization of similar size and complexity as the Government of Alberta (2+ years)
– Experience working on multiple projects currently, spanning multiple technical environments (2+ years)
– Experience developing training strategies and materials, and delivering training (3+ years)
– Communicating with multiple levels of staff directly and/or in meetings, including management and executives (2+ years)
– Direct, hands-on experience performing business requirement analysis related to 4 or more of the following areas: (5+ years)
– data management, acquisition, preparation, quality and data lineage/provenance
– data modeling, ingestion, ETL, ELT, data joins
– data manipulation/transformation, cleansing and wrangling
– data security, data privacy,policies, data de-identification/anonymization, data audits/reviews, synthetic data
– data analysis, data analytics, data visualization,data science, data mining
– Experience working in or for the public sector (2+ years)
– Experience leading or facilitating meetings (and workshops) with clients or stakeholders (2+ years)
WHY WORK WITH TRI-GLOBAL?
This role allows you to grow your professional work experience and skills in a dynamic environment. Tri-global is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Up to $75.00 per hour
Benefits:
Schedule:
Application question(s):
*Must be willing and able to work full-time, in-person in client office(s) in Edmonton, Alberta and/or work remotely, at the client’s discretion.
Experience:
Work Location: Remote
Application deadline: 2022-10-19
Expected start date: 2022-10-24
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