Information Systems Analyst

About us:

The Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration (EASI) department within the Chief Information Officer's (CIO) Division is a central department responsible for all matters pertaining to the development, maintenance and effectiveness of the core administrative management and student systems at the U of T. Included within these responsibilities are all central SAP systems, such as Financial Services, Human Resources, Research Administration and Procurement; the central U of T Student System (ROSI); approximately 40 related vendor and specialized web applications, as well as central Business Intelligence and Document Management applications.

Your opportunity:

Under the general direction of the Student Information Systems (SIS) Manager, Products and Applications, you will be part of a dynamic, collaborative and innovative team focused on delivering transformational technology solutions to the University. Through your efforts in this position, you will directly help improve the University's administrative management and student systems. You will work in cross-functional teams with developers, analysts and stakeholders on existing and new products using established methodologies, including Agile development processes. You will participate in all stages of the product life cycle including design, development, testing, implementation and support. Specifically, you will be involved in continuing development of the Course Information System, implementation of existing and new functionality, and support for functionality already in production. You will work closely with managers, senior stakeholders and team leads in managing project and development priorities, development sprints and the product road map. You may be involved in work with associated systems in the Student Information Systems group.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Assessing needs and contributing to the development of business systems
• Analyzing and documenting business requirements
• Developing task schedules in concert with project schedules
• Liaising with technical specialists to resolve end-user issues
• Scheduling and assigning work to a small group in a limited area

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years working in post secondary education, preferably in Information Technology or in support of teaching and learning.
• Minimum five years working with or supporting enterprise level course or curriculum applications (e.g., course management, course delivery, curriculum management and review, syllabus)
• Minimum 3 years working experience as a business analyst on Information Technology projects performing requirements gathering, analysis and testing.
• Experience with student registration and enrolment systems, especially in the area of course offering and student course enrolment.
• Experience with the use of business analysis practices and tools (e.g., MS Excel Pivot tables, MS Visio, LucidChart, PowerBI)
• Demonstrated experiencesupporting users of business applications.
• Experience in training users and producing user documentation.
• Experience working in cross functional development and implementation teams including developers, user experience designers, business analysts and business owners/stakeholders.
• Experience creating operational roadmaps
• Strong communication skills; able to present requirements, concepts and procedures to a diverse audience.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Demonstrated superior client service skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong analytical skills; able to interpret business requirements and articulate them into models and concepts.
• Strong problem solving skills.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Familiarity with SharePoint.
• Familiarity with Service Now or other service support and ticketing applications.
• Familiarity with Azure Dev Ops or other project and task management applications.
• Familiarity with Agile development processes.
• Familiarity with testing protocols and procedures.
• Understanding of the evolving nature of higher education.
• Experience in writing and executing queries and procedures in sql.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Articulate
• Intuitive
• Multi-tasker
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Team player

Closing Date: 04/04/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 14 -- $90,056. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $115,169. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Information Technology (IT)
Recruiter: Khristen Sivaramalingam

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.