About this role
The OpportunityCompany, Department: Nova Scotia Power, IT Project Management Office Location: Halifax, Nova ScotiaType of Employment: Permanent, Full-TimeClosing Date: November 23, 2026We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team. Reporting to the Manager, Tech PMO Strategy, you will be accountable for leading the overall business analysis approach and ensuring the quality, completeness, and effectiveness of analysis on complex initiatives. The role is accountable for translating business needs into practical, technology-enabled outcomes and for leading requirements engineering throughout the delivery lifecycle, including eliciting, analyzing, modelling, validating, documenting, prioritizing, tracing, and managing requirements from discovery through implementation.
Working across both business and technical teams, the Senior Business Analyst facilitates structured conversations, resolves ambiguity, builds shared understanding, and translates business objectives into clear requirements and solution information. The role also supports business continuity planning and related readiness activities, helping stakeholders identify critical processes, dependencies, risks, recovery needs, and continuity requirements. As a senior member of the Business Analysis practice, the role is expected to apply disciplined analysis, sound judgement, strong facilitation, and clear communication while mentoring others and contributing to consistent business analysis practices across Technology.
- Key elements of this role include: Accountability: Requirements Engineering & Business Analysis Lead end-to-end requirements engineering for complex initiatives, from problem and opportunity definition through solution delivery and transition.
- Plan and conduct requirements elicitation using interviews, facilitated workshops, document analysis, observation, process analysis, and other appropriate techniques.
- Analyze, model, specify, validate, prioritize, and manage business, stakeholder, functional, non-functional, transition, and solution requirements.
- Establish and maintain requirements traceability, ensuring approved requirements remain aligned to business objectives, solution design, testing, and implementation outcomes.
- Identify assumptions, constraints, dependencies, risks, gaps, and conflicting requirements; facilitate decisions and drive issues to resolution.
- Accountable to lead resolution of complex requirements issues, ambiguity, competing stakeholder needs and cross-functional dependencies.
- Assess proposed scope and requirement changes, including impacts to business processes, technology, stakeholders, controls, and downstream deliverables.
- Define clear acceptance criteria and support solution validation to confirm the delivered outcome addresses the underlying business need.
- Business Continuity Planning & Operational Readiness Accountable to business continuity analysis and planning activities in partnership with business, technology, risk, security, and operational stakeholders.
- Work with stakeholders to identify critical business processes and services, supporting technology and operational dependencies, continuity risks, recovery priorities, and recovery requirements.
- Facilitate continuity planning sessions and contribute to the development, review, maintenance, and validation of business continuity documentation and plans.
- Assess the impacts of technology or process changes on continuity requirements and lead operational readiness, ensuring relevant needs are incorporated into solution and implementation planning.
- Support continuity exercises, lessons learned, and follow-up improvements where required.
- Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement Plan and facilitate workshops, working sessions, interviews, and decision forums involving business leaders, subject matter experts, technical teams, vendors, and project delivery teams.
- Create an environment that enables productive discussion, surfaces differing pers