The Role
Our dynamic and collaborative team is expanding, and we’re looking for a client-focused GIS Business Analyst to join our team.
The GIS Business Analyst bridges the gap between our client’s business objectives and our technical geospatial solutions, ensuring all parties have shared understanding of project requirements, timelines, and expectations.
The GIS Business Analyst guides clients through discovery sessions, translates business problems into technical blueprints, and builds high-impact spatial deliverables. They support project planning, scope definition, work breakdown, effort estimation, and deliverable identification. They document business requirements, use cases, and undertake process mapping that captures current and future states.
Our ideal candidate has exceptional consultative and communication skills, the ability to manage complex, multi-faceted project schedules, balance expectations and meet critical deadlines. They demonstrate a strong understanding of business analysis methodologies, requirements elicitation, documentation, and stakeholder management. As a servant leader, they facilitate collaboration, removing impediments, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
What you’ll get to do as a GIS Business Analyst
· Engage directly with client stakeholders, business leaders and technical teams to understand business objectives, challenges and opportunities.
· Lead workshop sessions with clients to gather operational requirements and scope fit-for-service geospatial solutions.
· Lead meetings and presentations that keep all stakeholders informed, engaged, and aligned with project objectives.
· Translate complex client requirements into technical specifications, user stories, and actionable tasks for our internal GIS developers and analysts.
· Design and build executive-ready dashboards, StoryMaps, and Web Apps (via ArcGIS Online/Enterprise, Power BI, or Tableau) to deliver compelling visual narratives to clients.
· Provide detailed documentation that captures business requirements and specifications.
· Identify process inefficiencies, operational challenges, and opportunities for automation and optimization.
· Write user stories to define specific functionalities that meet user needs.
· Make positive contributions to an environment that fosters transparency, collaboration, learning, innovation, quality and speed.
· Ensure the timely and agile delivery of project milestones while maintaining direct, professional communication with client stakeholders.
· Develop test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria for user acceptance testing (UAT).
· Coordinate and support UAT activities, including defect tracking, issue resolution, and business acceptance.
What you’ll need to be successful
· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration or Engineering.
· 5+ years’ business analysis experience, in the GIS space, leading Agile projects with a deep understanding of programming concepts and software development processes.
· High proficiency with Esri tools, specifically ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online/Enterprise.
· Experience in a consulting, or professional services environment, serving as the bridge between technical teams and external clients.
· Experience supporting technology implementation projects through requirements definition, testing, user acceptance, and deployment.
· Detail oriented with a willingness to take a deep dive to understand technical challenges and for issues resolution.
· Requirements gathering experience using a variety of methods: interviews, surveys, workshops, and observations.
· Strong documentation skills including business and functional requirements and flowcharts, diagrams, and process models.
· Strong facilitation experience and the ability to manage expectations through regular, planned, and clear communication.
· Experience completing business analysis, implementation, integration, configuration, and testing excellence in support of a complex platform or application; highly skilled at performing system and data integration.
At The Solution Stack, you’ll work with a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, a supportive team culture, and opportunities to lead impactful GIS modernization and data transformation projects for industry-leading clients.
Benefits:
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- Paid time off
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Calgary, AB T2P 2Y3
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