Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

Aid in systems and technology requirement gathering sessions for systems integration, updates, and configurations. Offer guidance and support to the business analysis team, serving as a Subject Matter Expert and providing product expertise and leadership on engagements.

Analyze and define systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a thorough understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements to produce functional design specification documents. Develop and implement software/system scripts and integrate workarounds to address technical issues. Analyze and review test plans, performing testing of Sapiens software/systems at various development and configuration stages, validating test cases and ensuring full coverage of requirements.

Facilitate and participate in team quality reviews of requirement artifacts to ensure completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and adherence to standards. Assist various teams across the organization with problem resolution, prioritizing and obtaining approval for defined requirements. Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle, enforcing and refining as necessary. Regularly communicate and coordinate with all stakeholders, managing scope changes and adjustments.

Provide guidance related to underwriting (both manual and underwriting) measures and processes, including evaluating risk against insurance product characteristics. Analyze and perform initial configuration and setup of plans, rules, and tables in support of product definition, preferred. Analyze implemented solutions to verify objectives are met.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years in an individual contributor Business Analysis role, with priority given to candidates who have led engagements.
• 5+ years insurance industry experience in Life and Annuities (L&A), including but not limited to Whole Life, Term, Disability Income, and Universal life products.
• Prior experience in policy administration, illustration, underwriting, and implementation within the insurance industry, particularly in Life and Health solutions.
• Strong requirement gathering and documentation experience.
• Experience working with configurable enterprise systems and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent customer communication skills and experience working within a born-in-the-cloud environment, with demonstrated familiarity in cloud-native platforms, SaaS-based Life and Annuity solutions, and modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Desired Background

Insurance background, including but not limited to Whole Life, Term, Disability Income, and Universal life products. Policy administration, illustration, underwriting knowledge and implementation experience in the insurance industry, specifically Life and Health solutions.