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Sun Life

Senior Risk Business Analyst

Sun Life

. Act as the primary business-facing point of contact for Archer Risk .

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeToronto • CanadaSenior💰 CA$85,000 - CA$128,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Agile methodologies, particularly in requirement gathering, backlog management, and data analysis. Proficient in using JIRA for project tracking and has a strong understanding of risk management and compliance within business processes.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Agile MethodologiesJIRA ManagementData AnalysisRisk ManagementBusiness Requirements Elicitation

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Hard Skills
Data ValidationSQLData VisualizationSource-To-Target MappingProcess MappingUser Story MappingAcceptance Criteria DevelopmentReportingDashboard DevelopmentData Quality
Soft Skills
Interpersonal SkillsAnalytical SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsFacilitation SkillsRelationship-Building Skills
Tools & Technologies
JIRAServiceNowAgile Delivery ToolsData LakeData Warehouse
Certifications & Qualifications
BABSABSCCBAPPMI-PBAAgile CertificationScrum CertificationKanban CertificationSAFe Certification
Industry Keywords
Risk ManagementComplianceOperational ControlsFinancial ServicesInsurance Business ProcessesThird-Party Risk ManagementTechnology Risk ManagementCyber Risk ManagementDigital TransformationProcess Optimization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
ServiceNowSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Act as the primary business-facing point of contact for Archer Risk
  • Triage Archer Risk incidents, service requests, data issues, access inquiries, and enhancement requests
  • Develop detailed knowledge of Archer Risk and Archer Shared applications, workflows, data structures, integrations, user roles, and supported processes
  • Lead requirement discovery sessions and document scope, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success criteria
  • Elicit, analyze, validate, and communicate business, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, and compliance requirements
  • Collaborate with the Product Owner to define, refine, and prioritize Agile backlog items
  • Support Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and roadmap discussions
  • Apply Agile techniques including user story mapping, personas, story point estimation, process mapping, and prioritization frameworks
  • Translate business needs into data attributes, source-to-target mapping considerations, reporting needs, validation expectations, and data quality requirements
  • Analyze processes, systems, data flows, and operational pain points to identify improvement, optimization, automation, and innovation opportunities
  • Develop recommendations to address complex business challenges while balancing risk, compliance, stakeholder impact, feasibility, and capacity
  • Partner with users, vendors, technology partners, and leadership to plan, implement, test, roll out, and support applications and processes
  • Review or develop designs, test strategies, test plans, user documentation, training materials, and rollout plans
  • Triage requests, gather estimates, maintain delivery priorities, and support work-tracking huddles
  • Identify gaps, risks, interdependencies, and decision points; document mitigation strategies and escalate issues
  • Maintain and organize the JIRA delivery backlog
  • Write, review, and interpret epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, data requirements, and implementation notes
  • Support roadmap planning and status updates
  • Create and update JIRA automation rules and AI agents
  • Monitor budget and expense performance and reporting
  • Support risk assessments, risk-based testing, control documentation, and operational readiness
  • Collaborate on data lineage, database concepts, source-to-target mapping, data validation, and data quality
  • Contribute to data transformation, reporting, dashboarding, analytics, and digital solution initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of progressive experience as a Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Product Owner support role, or similar role; 7+ years preferred for data-heavy or complex delivery environments
  • Bachelor’s degree, college diploma, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience working in Agile environments such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe
  • Hands-on ability to use JIRA or equivalent Agile delivery tools
  • Experience with cross-functional teams including business users, vendors, development, QA, project managers, data enablement, and technology partners
  • Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and relationship-building skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to adapt to changing requirements, priorities, and delivery constraints
  • Working knowledge of risk management, compliance expectations, operational controls, data quality, reporting, or financial services/insurance business processes is an asset
  • Hands-on experience providing business or application support for Archer applications
  • Experience in Third-party Risk Management, Technology and Cyber Risk Management, ServiceNow, risk operations, operational risk, control management, or related enterprise risk
  • Experience with data visualization, analytics, reporting, dashboard development, data lake, data warehouse, source-to-target mapping, SQL, or data validation
  • BA, BSA, BSC, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe training or certification, or demonstrated practical experience
  • Experience supporting AI, automation, workflow, digital transformation, or process optimization initiatives
  • Experience with customer communication, stakeholder management, matrix organizations, vendors, and multi-site virtual teams

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Access to short-term assignments or ‘Gigs’ across the organization
  • Collaborative and interactive team environment
  • Charitable giving through the You Give, We Give program, with contribution matching in many cases
  • Care Days for self-care or care of others
  • Sick Days
  • Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work from the office and virtually
  • Eligible employees participate in discretionary incentive plans