Job Title: Senior Business Systems Analyst (Mainframe & API)
Location: Toronto, ON  4 days in office, 1 day work from home
Duration: 12 Months
 
What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver technology initiatives.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and system requirements.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and technical user stories.
• Write high-quality Jira user stories using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodology.
• Perform gap analysis and assess impacts to existing systems and processes.
• Support API and Mainframe-related initiatives, including customer data inquiry and maintenance.
• Partner with testing teams to define test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and expected results.
• Ensure requirements traceability throughout design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and program increment planning.
• Support implementation, operational readiness, and post-production activities.
• Recommend process improvements while promoting quality, scalability, and innovation.

 
Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a: Business Systems Analyst, Software Engineer, Quality Engineer
• Strong hands-on experience working with Mainframe screens for customer data inquiry and maintenance.
• Strong hands-on experience testing and validating APIs using Postman.
• Experience working within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
• Strong experience writing BDD user stories.
• Advanced experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Strong testing, requirements validation, and gap analysis experience

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with customer data platforms.
• Banking or financial services industry experience.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot or GitHub Copilot.
• Business Analysis certifications.
• Post-secondary diploma or degree

 
Soft Skills

• Engineering mindset with strong analytical thinking.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in Agile environments.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced and evolving environments.

 
Team & Environment

• Agile pod of approximately 10 team members.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Structured onboarding with knowledge transfer and shadowing.
• Opportunity to contribute to long-term platform modernization and emerging AI initiatives

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.The pay rate for this position is C$55.00/hr.