Senior Business Systems Analyst

Company: ICONMA, LLC
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: August 3, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description+ Responsible for working in partnership with business stakeholders to understand the business need, define/elaborate the scope, document business requirements, and ensure business validation.+ Collaborate with IT teams to implement business requirements through project initiatives and maintenance sprints to enable the business to drive revenue growth and/or maintain compliance.+ Partner with business leadership to understand business needs and implement prioritized business initiatives.+ Document high level scope used by development to estimate work effort required for new project initiatives to be presented to senior leadership for governance approval.+ Manage business expectations through prioritization, requirements, user acceptance testing and transparent communication.+ Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT employees and vendor partners to deliver business commitments.+ Collaborate with multiple vendor partners to analyze requirements, appropriately distribute tasks, and track progress to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.+ Champion the needs of the business and work with other BAs to line up prioritized defect fixes and small enhancements/changes in maintenance sprints.+ Partner with product & platform stakeholders to understand the system interfacing requirements thus help with functional solution to the problem+ Take self-initiative to dig into application and requirement documents to understand the core insurance product in the assist setup+ Work on development of API specifications to support API based interactions across underwriting policy life cycle (Submission, Quote, Bind, Issue, Endorsement, Cancellation)+ Develop functional mapping (XML to XML) between the API and the core product (such as ensuring rating & underwriting integrity towards transaction commitment+ Understand multiproduct environment and help drive the functional design towards common synergies for digital interactions+ Conduct business stakeholder meetings and requirement gathering sessions to construct workflow diagrams and write detail specifications through iterative design.+ Work with BAs, development, and testing teams to provide clarifications on requirements or issues during implementation.+ Take leadership on initiatives and collaborate with the project manager to drive projects forward.+ Keep abreast of latest technologies and participate in designing innovative, cutting-edge software solutions.+ Understanding of Agile delivery methodology and Scrum are desirable.+ Ability to lead people and create a sense of team to deliver business objectives.+ Ability to build trusting relationships with all team members including business stakeholders and IT team members.+ Models Client values; demonstrates high integrity; meets commitments.+ Demonstrates sense of urgency and accountability; sets priorities and acts on key issues.+ Advanced technical troubleshooting, diagnosing, and problem-solving skills.+ Excellent written and verbal communication.+ Client strives to offer a diverse and inclusive and rewarding work environment.+ Teamwork and mutual respect are central to how Client operates, and we believe the best solutions draw upon diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills.+ Operate in such a way where everyone, regardless of their singular background can contribute to our collective success.+ Adaptability Agility.+ Responds well to change.+ Handles multiple demands / priorities effectively.+ Adapts to best fit with situation at hand.+ Handles conflict effectively.+ Collaborates.+ Develops new skills quickly.+ Willing to accept new responsibilities.+ Takes initiative & accountability.+ IT Methodologies.+ Good organizational skills.+ Has experience managing projects and staff.+ Advanced technical skills or specialized knowledge.+ Analyzes tasks, dependencies, and resource needs.+ Manages budgets and performs financial activities effectively.+ Understands system development life cycle (SDLC) including AGILE methodology; uses project methodologies.+ Learning Orientation.+ Solves problems.+ Understands fundamentals of insurance, IT best practices, and technology.+ Understands business processes and process improvement.+ Connects business problems to technical solutions.+ Validates those solutions achieve desired business result.+ Matches business requirements to deliverables.+ Understands & meets deadlines.+ Holds others accountable.+ Proactive identification and management of risk.+ Manages multiple work streams.+ Works effectively across multiple groups (both internal and external).+ Responds to customers appropriately, timely, and accurately.+ Manages relationships effectively.+ Influences others.+ Transfers knowledge to others.+ Ability to correlate Duck requirements with policy xml and thus map it further for API based interaction would be needed. Requirements + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, other related field, or equivalent work experience.+ Minimum of 5 years of IT experience in a comparable role.+ Minimum of 5 years in P insurance and strong knowledge of the end-to-end policy life cycle.+ Background with Duck Creek product implementation would be good to have.+ Background in Duck Creek based integrating requirements especially for Blackbox rater or headless page-based integration with third party platform would be good to have.+ Any background in writing API requirements leveraging ACORD standard (P) would be good to have.+ Background with policy admin system portfolio implementation experience, Duck Creek required.+ Has experience managing scope and change control.+ Communicates effectively both written and oral.+ Has experience working with multivendor projects and related communications challenges.+ Excellent interpersonal skills.+ Highly self-motivated, organized, with excellent time management skills and ability to multitask on critical initiatives. As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA prides itself on creating an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons regardless of race, color, gender, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, or disability.

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