Title: Guidewire Business Systems Analyst
Location: Hybrid in Jersey City or Raleigh, NC (2-days a week)
Client Industry: Insurance
Compensation: $60 - $80/hr. (Contract-to-hire)
We have partnered with our client in their search for a Guidewire Business Systems Analyst. The Guidewire Business Systems Analyst is responsible for collaborating with the Digital Product Managers (DPM), business system owners, and users to capture business requirements and accurately translate them into specifications that aid the design, coding, and testing of complex software within the organization.
This person will perform in a liaison function between the DPMs, business users, software engineers, and QA analysts for implementing software solutions to accurately realize business goals. This role will support the delivery of a new Guidewire Implementation, with a focus on Policy Center and Billing Center.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a Guidewire InsuranceSuite Subject Matter Expert.
- Liaises with 3rd party suppliers and implementation partners to support the timely completion of all deliverables and provide local oversight of Corporate-level deliverables.
- Builds close working relationships with business stakeholders, ensuring they are kept up to date and involved.
- Learns and maintains knowledge of business applications relevant to Underwriting and Finance.
- Conducts detailed data analysis in collaboration with upstream product teams to define data requirements and ensure dependencies on other product teams can be resolved within required timeframes.
- Follows business analysis and requirements management corporate standards.
- Works with QA colleagues to support the robust testing of system changes.
- Plans and facilitates requirements elicitation sessions such as workshops and 1-to-1 interviews.
- Conducts system prototype demonstrations to validate requirements with stakeholders.
- Assists the DPM in facilitating the prioritization of business requirements.
- Liaises with technical colleagues to ensure requirements are technically feasible and business requirements have been accurately translated into technical requirements.
- Performs detailed analysis of business requirements to ensure all implications have been considered and identify any potentially missing requirements.
Skills Required
- A background in the commercial P&C insurance industry
- Knowledge and understanding of the Underwriting and Billing Workflows for US based P&C Insurance Carriers.
- Understanding of usability and user experience best practices
- Understanding of product lifecycle development
- Experience defining digital content experiences
- Ability to evaluate, analyze and interpret the voice of the customer through a variety of data sources
- Familiarity with technologies utilized in the industry and the ability to see their impact
- Good consensus building skills
- Ability to convey technical concepts in a clear, understandable manner
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Prior experience working with 3rd party vendors to deliver results
- Ability to establish credibility, influence and effective working relationships with peers and stakeholders.
- Comfortable interacting and partnering at all levels across the organization
Education & Work Experience
- Expert Knowledge of the Guidewire Cloud InsuranceSuite Platform.
- Guidewire Certification is required
