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Senior Business Systems Designer
Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Vancouver, CAN
Full Time
Senior
Hybrid
1 weeks ago
Enterprise business systemsCOTS implementationSaaS implementationBusiness process designRequirements definitionFit gap analysis
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About the Role
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority seeks a Senior Business Systems Designer to lead discovery, definition, and functional architecture of business systems. The role partners with business leaders to analyze operational challenges and define capability models.
Key Skills for This Role
Enterprise business systemsCOTS implementationSaaS implementationBusiness process designRequirements definitionFit gap analysis
Responsibilities
- Lead the structured exploration of complex business challenges by working closely with business leaders and subject matter experts
- Analyze current operational practices, information flows, and system usage to identify business capability gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Facilitate discovery workshops and analysis activities to clarify business problems and define desired outcomes
- Define the business capabilities required to support organizational objectives and determine how those capabilities should be enabled through business systems
- Establish and maintain a holistic view of how enterprise business capabilities are supported across existing and planned systems
- Shape solution approaches that connect business challenges with appropriate technology solutions
- Contribute to the development of business systems modernization roadmaps
- Define the functional architecture of business system solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Lead requirements definition and fit gap analysis activities
- Establish configuration strategies that maximize standard system functionality while minimizing customization
- Maintain a holistic view of the organization's business systems landscape
- Define and govern business system capability boundaries to avoid duplication or fragmentation
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively senior level experience working with enterprise business systems
- Demonstrated practical experience applying architectural, business analysis, or systems design methods within large scale enterprise system initiatives
- Substantial hands on experience delivering full lifecycle COTS and/or SaaS implementations
- Proven experience translating complex operational processes into capability driven system solutions
- Demonstrated architectural decision making experience within enterprise implementations
- Experience working at the intersection of business strategy and system design
- Proven experience working with software vendors and system integrators in an architecture or solution design capacity
- Experience providing design leadership across implementation initiatives
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise delivery and collaboration tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Jira, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Smartsheet)
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Job Overview
- The Senior Business Systems Designer leads the discovery, definition, and functional architecture of business systems.
- The role partners with business leaders to analyze operational challenges and define capability models.
- Hybrid work in Vancouver, Canada.
What You Do
- Lead the structured exploration of complex business challenges by working closely with business leaders and subject matter experts.
- Analyze current operational practices, information flows, and system usage to identify business capability gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Facilitate discovery workshops and analysis activities to clarify business problems, define desired outcomes, and establish a shared understanding of transformation objectives.
- Define the business capabilities required to support organizational objectives and determine how those capabilities should be enabled through business systems.
- Establish and maintain a holistic view of how enterprise business capabilities are supported across existing and planned systems.
- Shape solution approaches that connect business challenges with appropriate technology solutions.
- Contribute to the development of business systems modernization roadmaps by identifying opportunities to introduce, enhance, rationalize, or retire systems.
- Define the functional architecture of business system solutions, ensuring system capabilities, workflows, integrations, and data structures align with business objectives.
- Lead requirements definition and fit gap analysis activities to determine how system capabilities should be configured to support business processes.
- Establish configuration strategies that maximize the use of standard system functionality while minimizing unnecessary customization.
- Maintain a holistic view of the organization's business systems landscape, ensuring system roles, boundaries, and capabilities remain clearly defined.
- Define and govern business system capability boundaries to ensure capabilities are appropriately distributed and to avoid duplication or fragmentation of functionality.
What You Bring
- A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related acceptable discipline.
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressively senior level experience working with enterprise business systems.
- Demonstrated practical experience applying architectural, business analysis, or systems design methods within large scale enterprise system initiatives.
- Substantial hands on experience delivering full lifecycle COTS and/or SaaS implementations.
- Proven experience translating complex operational processes and business challenges into capability driven system solutions.
- Demonstrated architectural decision making experience within enterprise implementations.
- Experience working at the intersection of business strategy and system design.
- Proven experience working with software vendors and system integrators in an architecture or solution design capacity.
- Experience providing design leadership across implementation initiatives.
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise delivery and collaboration tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Jira, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Smartsheet, or similar).
- Demonstrates strong enterprise systems thinking.
- Possesses the ability to translate complex, ambiguous business challenges into well defined business capabilities and system enabled solution approaches.
What We Offer
- Market competitive base salaries and variable incentive plan.
- Generous and inclusive benefits offering including retirement benefits plan.
- Earned time off program.
- Paid vacation and personal care leave.
- Learning, development, and advancement opportunities.
- Onsite gym with towel service in a national landmark in the heart of Vancouver's waterfront.
- Friendly, unique, and respectful workplace.
Workplace
- Location: Vancouver, Canada.
- Job type: Bargaining Unit, Full Time, Permanent, Hybrid.
- Working environment: Normal working office conditions.
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