Lead Business Analyst
Posted 1 day ago by 1764671007
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Lead Business Analyst will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders to elicit and review business requirements, manage the Agile Program Vision and Backlog, and support system test planning. This role requires a strong understanding of the P&C insurance industry and the ability to communicate effectively with both clients and IT staff. The position demands a combination of analytical skills and experience in business analysis, particularly within the context of legal operations. The role is remote or based in New Jersey, with a focus on delivering innovative solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines and collaborates with stakeholders to plan and conduct working sessions where business requirements are elicited and reviewed.
- Collaborate with ART Team and own Agile Program Vision, Backlog and Program Increment (PI) Roadmap, continuously communicating to the ART leaders and team levels requirement and acceptance criteria with required documents within tools like Confluence (e.g., use cases, process flows, business rules, user interface mock-ups, etc) for the concept and definition phases of the project.
- Supports system test planning to ensure that test conditions, scripts, validation criteria, and expected results will successfully test the business and non-functional requirements.
- Participates in design reviews to ensure that detailed designs meet the needs of business and non-functional requirements.
- Manages requirements process using the appropriate requirement management tools (e.g. Jira).
- Assures that necessary research is performed in order to fully understand the business issues, develop possible business solutions and to support development of innovative, cost effective solutions.
Key Skills:
- Broad understanding of the P&C insurance industry, its products, practices and operations.
- Broad knowledge of the system development life cycle, and technology alternatives using Agile methodologies; understanding of interface design and external vendor integrations.
- Experience in Legal Matter Workflows and Life Cycle.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Solid oral and written communication skills and ability to convey business requirements with Agility and backlog maintenance & refinement.
- Solid client and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with clients and IT staff.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite and other business related software systems.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Position: Lead Business Analyst
Length: 12+ months
Job Description:
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines and collaborates with stakeholders to plans and conduct working sessions where business requirements are elicited and reviewed.
- Collaborate with ART Team and own Agile Program Vision, Backlog and Program Increment (PI) Roadmap, continuously communicating to the ART leaders and team levels requirement and acceptance criteria with required documents within tools like Confluence (e.g., use cases, process flows, business rules, user interface mock-ups, etc) for the concept and definition phases of the project.
- Supports system test planning to ensure that test conditions, scripts, validation criteria, and expected results will successfully test the business and non-functional requirements.
- Participates in design reviews to ensure that detailed designs meet the needs of business and non-functional requirements.
- Manages requirements process using the appropriate requirement management tools (e.g. Jira).
- Assures that necessary research is performed in order to fully understand the business issues, develop possible business solutions and to support development of innovative, cost effective solutions.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Broad understanding of the P&C insurance industry, its products, practices and operations.
- Broad knowledge of the system development life cycle, and technology alternatives using Agile methodologies; understanding of interface design and external vendor integrations.
- Experience in Legal Matter Workflows and Life Cycle.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Solid oral and written communication skills and ability to convey business requirements with Agility and backlog maintenance & refinement.
- Solid client and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with clients and IT staff.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite and other business related software systems.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- Typically a minimum of at least 7-10 years' experience in business analysis, or other related experience, i.e., Commercial Insurance Claim and Legal Operations, or computer science with prior experience identifying and documenting business requirements.
Thank you,