Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics Platform

Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics Platform

This posting is for one new role within the Canadian Cancer Society, supporting vital work across Canada.

Work Model & Location

This is a hybrid work model position. Candidates may be based in Toronto, ON; Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC; Ottawa, ON; Calgary, AB; Halifax, NS; St John's, NL; Kelowna, BC; Prince George, BC; or Montreal, QC. Detailed office location information is available on the Canadian Cancer Society website.

Salary Band

The salary band for this role is 5 ($65,000 - $75,000 CAD).

HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF CANCER CARE IN CANADA

The Canadian Cancer Society tirelessly works to save and improve lives, driving collective action against cancer. Partnering with patients, volunteers, donors, and communities, we raise funds for transformative cancer research, provide a caring support system, and advocate for a healthier future. It truly takes a society to take on cancer, and the Canadian Cancer Society leads this critical effort.

MAKING AN IMPACT

The Technical Business Analyst - Data & Analytics Platform is crucial for enabling data-informed decisions. This role involves translating complex business needs into clear, actionable technical and analytics requirements across the organization's data platforms and analytics ecosystem. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Engineering & Services, this position collaborates closely with business stakeholders, data analysts, data engineers, BI specialists, and delivery teams. The goal is to ensure that analytics and data solutions are well-defined, scalable, and aligned with business priorities. Day-to-day responsibilities include facilitating discovery sessions, documenting requirements, validating data models and solution designs, and supporting agile planning and delivery to ensure solutions are fit for purpose, governed, and effectively adopted.

What You’ll Be Doing

Discovery & Requirements Definition

• Business Requirements Definition: Document essential needs, analytical use cases, and optional enhancements. Identify gaps between business goals, processes, and data platform capabilities. Facilitate structured requirements gathering with product leaders, SMEs, and cross-functional teams to interpret goals, outcomes, and success measures.
• Data Platform Requirements: Evaluate data integration needs across various platforms (CRM, fundraising, volunteer systems, external sources). Identify required data flows, source-to-target relationships, transformation considerations, data services functions, and data quality needs. Validate proposed data models and solution designs, ensuring alignment with data governance and platform capabilities.
• Advanced Analytics Requirements: Define advanced analytics requirements, including predictive modeling, segmentation, experimentation, and feature needs. Translate analytical questions and hypotheses into clear data, integration, and analytical requirements.

Solution Design & Delivery Enablement

• Solution Planning: Collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Engineers, BI Specialists, QA, and DevOps to ensure requirements are understood and reflected in proposed solutions. Provide input on feasibility, impacts, and constraints. Support alignment between business requirements, solution components, and testing activities.
• Technical Documentation: Produce high-quality solution documentation, including process flows, data models, configuration requirements, and supporting reference materials. Maintain knowledge repositories and keep materials current.
• Quality Assurance Support: Assist QA teams by clarifying requirements, contributing to test scenario development, and supporting defect analysis and triage. Participate in release reviews and validation to confirm functionality aligns with approved requirements.

Agile Planning & Delivery Support

• Planning Support: Help the planning team translate business needs and outcomes into clear user stories and backlog items. Assist with refining acceptance criteria, breaking down work, and providing input for backlog prioritization. Clarify assumptions, considerations, risks, and constraints.
• Delivery Enablement: Support backlog refinement, estimation, and sprint planning. Ensure backlog items meet Definition of Ready and Definition of Done criteria. Partner with delivery teams to facilitate work flow.

Contribute to a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity (DIBE) by ensuring all staff feel represented, valued, and heard. Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in business analysis, information technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, covering requirements discovery, analysis, and documentation for complex initiatives, coupled with extensive experience supporting technology-enabled projects with engineering, data, and delivery teams.
• Proven experience collecting and documenting requirements from cross-functional stakeholder groups with varying technical expertise.
• Working knowledge of Agile frameworks and methodologies (backlog refinement, user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint planning).
• Strong conceptual understanding of data models, analytics workflows, and data quality standards; ability to validate and critically assess solutions.
• Working knowledge of data governance, data platform, and analytics technologies is a strong asset.
• Demonstrated ability to align technical deliverables with organizational strategy and business goals.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and optimization skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and collaborate.
• Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments with shifting priorities.
• Bilingualism (French/English) is highly preferred due to nationwide operations.

What You Can Expect From Us

CCS offers impactful opportunities to transform the lives of Canadians affected by cancer. We are devoted to creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates diverse experiences and skills, encouraging all qualified candidates to join us. Our inspiring culture is rooted in our core values: COURAGEOUS, UNITED, CARING, RIGOROUS. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits (paid parental leave, family sick time, health insurance), and a fulfilling work environment where your efforts make a meaningful impact daily.

COME AS YOU ARE

At CCS, we celebrate individuality and the strength of diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including those from equity-deserving groups such as BIPOC, 2SLGBTQI+ communities, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and others who contribute to the richness of our organization. Together, we unite Canadians to shape the future of cancer care.

How To Apply

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume, cover letter, and salary expectations by March 20th, 2026. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Other Information

CCS is dedicated to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodation will be provided as requested throughout the recruitment process in accordance with the local provincial Accessibility Act. Employees are not permitted to smoke in or about CCS premises or while carrying out CCS business.

Privacy Disclosure

We collect personal information to evaluate your candidacy, contact you, and generate reports. If selected, information will be used for pre-employment checks and your employee file. We may share information with third parties (recruitment consultants) within or outside Canada for these purposes, or as required by law. You can exercise your right to access or correct information, unsubscribe, or withdraw consent via the ADP system or by contacting privacy@cancer.ca. More information is available at cancer.ca/privacy.

AI Disclosure

We are committed to transparency and responsible use of technology. AI tools may assist with administrative or screening tasks; however, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI-assisted outputs are reviewed and approved to ensure fairness, accuracy, and alignment with our values. More information is available at cancer.ca/privacy.

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Key skills/competency

• Requirements Gathering
• Data Modeling
• Agile Methodologies
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Intelligence
• Data Governance
• Solution Design
• Advanced Analytics
• Technical Documentation
• Quality Assurance