FSO - Insurance - Life & Group Transformation - Technology Consulting - Senior
About the role
At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. The opportunity EY is seeking a Senior Consultant to join EY engagement teams, deliver consulting services and develop business with our clients: the largest providers of life insurance, group benefits and retirement. Our Business Transformation and Growth (BTG) practice helps our clients to reimagine, modernize and disrupt how they succeed in the market and create long-term, sustainable value. In this role, you will help our clients achieve their desired goals and business objectives. In return, you can expect to learn leading practices in technology transformation, delivery, and gain exposure to solving a variety of complex business challenges using digital and transformational tools, methods, and technologies. You will gain exposure in all areas of the insurance value chain including, but not limited to: product development, sales/distribution, new business/underwriting, policy administration, and claims.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of platform solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, architecture standards, and program commitments.
- Manage delivery planning, execution, scope, dependencies, risks, issues, and milestones across cross-functional teams.
- Coordinate platform configuration, integration, and implementation activities across business, technology, and vendor teams.
- Partner with client stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable delivery plans and roadmaps.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security standards, regulatory requirements, and operational objectives.
- Monitor program health and delivery performance, proactively driving risk mitigation and issue resolution.
- Coordinate onshore and offshore teams to deliver quality outcomes and achieve program objectives.
- Support governance forums and stakeholder communications by providing status updates, delivery insights, and recommendations.
- Promote best practices in Agile/SAFe delivery, testing, release management, DevOps, and operational readiness.
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and delivery excellence.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree and 6 years of relevant working experience
- 3+ years’ experience across any of the following lines of insurance: Life, annuity, and Group benefits
- Experience in supporting delivery on one or a combination of the following policy administration platforms: FAST (Verisk), FINEOS AdminSuite, ALIP, OIPA, DXC wmA/CyberLife, EXL LifePro, or comparable modern PAS
- Working knowledge of the Life & Annuity value chain, including product configuration, new business/underwriting, policy administration, servicing, and claims
- Program, project, or workstream management experience in an on‑shore/off‑shore delivery model, working with clients and third‑party vendors
- Hands‑on familiarity with platform configuration and integration, including APIs, middleware, and data migration
- Excellent business, communication and presentation skills
- Strong writing, presentation, conceptual, analytical, and interpersonal skills
- Comfortable with speaking to larger audiences and executive level professionals
- Demonstrated proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel
- Strong experience working within Agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices
- Willingness to travel up to 50% to meet client needs, as needed
Qualifications
- Ideally, you’ll also have an Advanced degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Economics or related disciplines