About Umbrella

Umbrella Incorporated partners with enterprises to navigate complexity, accelerate growth, and drive measurable impact.

With expertise across digital commerce, IT infrastructure, market insights, finance, and AI, we deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions through a collaborative, outcome-driven approach.

About Tidal Commerce

Tidal is an outcome-focused, specialized eCommerce consulting and engineering boutique for B2C & B2B businesses, offering comprehensive solutions from ideation to implementation and management.

Recognized as a Shopify Plus partner.
Expertise in headless and composable technologies.
Diverse B2C and B2B planning and implementation experience and a deep understanding of both markets.
Integrated onshore and offshore teams in six countries, offering support for round-the-clock productivity.
Member of Umbrella-Incorporated, a business consulting firm, Tidal provides holistic end-to-end digital transformation solutions with cross-functional expertise in strategy, finance, operations, marketing and technology.

Role Overview

The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for driving requirements clarity, stakeholder alignment, and delivery support across client engagements. This role acts as a key liaison between clients and technical teams, ensuring business needs are clearly understood, documented, and translated into actionable work items that support successful delivery.

The Senior Business Analyst focuses on facilitating communication, managing dependencies, and ensuring that delivery teams have the information needed to execute effectively, while maintaining strong relationships with client stakeholders.

This is an active position.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Client Engagement and Stakeholder Collaboration

Serve as a primary point of contact for client stakeholders on requirements, scope clarification, and delivery coordination
Facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and requirement discussions to understand business needs and priorities
Build and maintain strong working relationships with client stakeholders and delivery teams
Communicate requirements, updates, and risks clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Ensure alignment between client expectations and delivery timelines

2. Requirements Management and Documentation

Gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements in a structured and traceable format
Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation
Ensure requirements are complete, testable, and aligned with agreed scope and business outcomes
Maintain traceability between requirements, delivery milestones, and released functionality
Support ongoing clarification of requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle

3. Delivery Execution Support

Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and Technical Teams to ensure requirements are well understood and actionable
Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release readiness activities
Track dependencies, assumptions, and risks that may impact delivery timelines or outcomes
Support user acceptance testing (UAT) planning, coordination, and validation
Assist in ensuring readiness for releases, including requirement sign-off and stakeholder communication

4. Change and Scope Coordination

Support impact analysis for changes to requirements, scope, or timelines
Ensure changes are documented, communicated, and aligned with project objectives
Monitor scope alignment and escalate potential risks or deviations as needed
Maintain clear documentation of decisions, assumptions, and requirement updates

5. Process and Delivery Support

Contribute to improving requirement management and documentation practices
Support consistent delivery processes and communication standards across engagements
Maintain accurate documentation to support delivery continuity and knowledge transfer

Qualifications and Experience

Required:

5–7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role
Experience in eCommerce or complex delivery environments involving APIs, integrations, SAP/ERP, PIM systems, and Salesforce
Strong experience gathering and documenting business and system requirements, including user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and traceability
Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence
Proven ability to facilitate workshops, interview stakeholders, and translate ambiguous needs into clear requirements
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts in business terms
Experience working in Agile and Waterfall delivery environments
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and prioritization skills in fast-paced environment

Preferred:

MBA or advanced degree in Business, Strategy, or a related field
Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, consulting, or advisory engagements
Familiarity with emerging technologies, including AI/ML and Agentic AI, and their business applications

Compensation

The base pay range for this role is CA$70,000 – CA$90,000 per year.

Business Analyst

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