Senior Business Systems Analyst (Mainframe & API)

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

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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.