Senior IT Business Analyst

Role Overview

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineers, Quality Engineers, Business partners, and Scrum teams to define Epics, Features, and detailed User Stories.
• Translate life insurance product specifications into technical requirements and system designs.
• Collaborate to help develop and execute test strategies, plans, and acceptance criteria for product implementations and system enhancements.
• Understand testing requirements and build and support test planning and execution to validate that system solutions meet the business requirements.
• Perform analysis of complex system calculations including actuarial rate models, identify root cause of problems, and contribute to development of technical solutions.
• Partner with internal teams and external vendors to ensure alignment with business needs and IT standards.
• Support system, regression, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Enhance workflows and processes in alignment with business and technical strategy.
• Monitor industry trends and contribute to communities of practice.
• Manage multiple initiatives concurrently and navigate ambiguity with a customer-centric mindset.

Requirements

• 8+ years IT industry experience
• Must have Actuarial or strong Mathematical background
• Minimum 5 + Years of Experience in Insurance or Banking and Financial sectors.
• Must have strong understanding of individual life insurance operations and product development.
• Must have experience in Policy Administration.
• 3–4 years of progressive business analysis experience supporting medium to large-sized projects.
• Agile team experience where responsibilities include the planning and delivery of user stories in an Agile SCRUM environment
• Proficiency in systems design, structured analysis, and testing methodologies.
• High level of discipline knowledge and understanding of life insurance product development.
• Proven ability to lead analysis efforts, mentor junior analysts, and influence cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.
• Foundational knowledge of system design and testing processes.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills to support multiple initiatives.
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement across cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
• Demonstrable ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment with geographically dispersed Business partners and peers.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel), JIRA.
• Proven ability to leverage emerging market trends including adoption of tools and best practices using Generative AI to transform Business analysis and product delivery.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
• Awareness of organizational dynamics and informal structures.

Benefits

• health, dental, mental health, vision insurance
• short
• and long-term disability coverage
• life and AD&D insurance
• adoption/surrogacy benefits
• wellness benefits
• employee/family assistance plans
• various retirement savings plans
• pension plan
• global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
• financial education and counseling resources
• generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
• full range of statutory leaves of absence