Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
August 18, 2022
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CGI Data Architecture and Engineering practice is looking for a Senior Business Analyst whose work will help people make real-time business decisions to better optimize their portfolio of delivery work to bring more value to our customers. Your work will enable customer's Leaders and associates with transparency into strategy, work, people, and financial data from an Objectives-focused lens to enable better decision-making and rapid insight into customer’s key business initiatives. Through your analysis skills, leadership behaviors, organizational savvy, and data savvy, you are recognized as an expert in influencing our emergent capability.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
You are an expert in gathering business requirements and translating them to data solutions. You are skilled at effectively defining use cases and simplifying complex concepts.
You are able to define user stories and validate the impact of changes to datasets and data models. You can break up complex work into digestible work elements. You have a good, applied knowledge of agile methodologies and practices. Familiarity with Jira / Jira Align is a big plus.
You have an excellent working knowledge of SQL and/or Python, and are able to independently wrangle our datasets to obtain valuable insights.
You understand and communicate sophisticated concepts effectively to a variety of audiences, both technical and non-technical. You make the complicated simple.
You have a passion for continuous learning, mastering of new skills, and keeping abreast of the latest innovations across data analytics.
You have strong data analysis and data profiling skills, and can define robust test scenarios.
You have experience navigating integrated enterprise data and working across multi-functional teams. You are able to identify alternative approaches and make recommendations on the benefits and shortcomings of each approach.
You are known as a go-getter, with the ability to unravel a mystery – data, business process or organizational.
You apply data management and data modelling practices when building data solutions.
You are an effective communicator with a strong ability to cultivate relationships. You have excellent communication and presentation skills.
Your familiarity with enterprise data lakes and Cloud data platforms such as Snowflake is a big plus.
The Team
The Transparency squad is aligned within the Managing the Work and Portfolio Outcomes Product Area of Enterprise Technology. Your team is enabled with support of you ScrumMaster and leadership of your squad leader. Your collective efforts enable the product area to align customer’s technology strategy, work, people and financials through capabilities including Objectives & KPIs, Jira Align, the agile people directory and a modernized financial costing model. These capabilities provide transparency to better prioritize and deliver work, make faster decisions, remove impediments and drive customer value.
Your team-based alignment will enable you to maintain a broader perspective of how your work fits into customer’s overall data platform and strategy and is focused on your overall career growth and development.
Company Overview
Business success isn’t just about where you’ll go and how you’ll get there. It’s also about who you’ll team with. We are committed to making our story about you and your successful journey, serving as an insightful and resourceful partner.
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. We are insights-driven and outcome-based to help accelerate returns on IT and business investments.
In all we do, our goal is to build trusted relationships through client proximity, providing industry and technology expertise to help you reach your career objectives and meet the needs of customers.
Insights you can act on
While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.
When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees members because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.
At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.
Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
You are an expert in gathering business requirements and translating them to data solutions. You are skilled at effectively defining use cases and simplifying complex concepts.
You are able to define user stories and validate the impact of changes to datasets and data models. You can break up complex work into digestible work elements. You have a good, applied knowledge of agile methodologies and practices. Familiarity with Jira / Jira Align is a big plus.
You have an excellent working knowledge of SQL and/or Python, and are able to independently wrangle our datasets to obtain valuable insights.
You understand and communicate sophisticated concepts effectively to a variety of audiences, both technical and non-technical. You make the complicated simple.
You have a passion for continuous learning, mastering of new skills, and keeping abreast of the latest innovations across data analytics.
You have strong data analysis and data profiling skills, and can define robust test scenarios.
You have experience navigating integrated enterprise data and working across multi-functional teams. You are able to identify alternative approaches and make recommendations on the benefits and shortcomings of each approach.
You are known as a go-getter, with the ability to unravel a mystery – data, business process or organizational.
You apply data management and data modelling practices when building data solutions.
You are an effective communicator with a strong ability to cultivate relationships. You have excellent communication and presentation skills.
Your familiarity with enterprise data lakes and Cloud data platforms such as Snowflake is a big plus.
The Team
The Transparency squad is aligned within the Managing the Work and Portfolio Outcomes Product Area of Enterprise Technology. Your team is enabled with support of you ScrumMaster and leadership of your squad leader. Your collective efforts enable the product area to align customer’s technology strategy, work, people and financials through capabilities including Objectives & KPIs, Jira Align, the agile people directory and a modernized financial costing model. These capabilities provide transparency to better prioritize and deliver work, make faster decisions, remove impediments and drive customer value.
Your team-based alignment will enable you to maintain a broader perspective of how your work fits into customer’s overall data platform and strategy and is focused on your overall career growth and development.
Company Overview
Business success isn’t just about where you’ll go and how you’ll get there. It’s also about who you’ll team with. We are committed to making our story about you and your successful journey, serving as an insightful and resourceful partner.
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. We are insights-driven and outcome-based to help accelerate returns on IT and business investments.
In all we do, our goal is to build trusted relationships through client proximity, providing industry and technology expertise to help you reach your career objectives and meet the needs of customers.
Insights you can act on
While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.
When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees members because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.
At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.
Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
