Guidewire BA

Job Title: Guidewire BA

Job Location: Schaumburg, IL

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $65hr - $70hr

• SME provides deep domain expertise across US crop insurance products and operations acting as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• The role ensures regulatory compliance, business accuracy, and operational feasibility across AMS and transformation initiatives.

Requirement/Must Have:

• 10-15 years of experience in Crop Insurance domain.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of MPCI plans, unit structures, coverage options.
• Prevented planting, replant indemnity calculations.
• Claims settlement, loss adjustment processes.
• Experience with USDA RMA compliance and reporting.
• Prior exposure to core insurance platforms (Guidewire preferred, custom systems acceptable).
• Ability to translate regulatory and actuarial complexity into clear business guidance.
• Strong stakeholder management and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the domain authority for Crop Insurance including MPCI, Crop Hail, Livestock, and Specialty Crop products.
• Interpret and apply USDA RMA regulations, actuarial rules, policy provisions, and loss adjustment procedures.
• Provide guidance on end-to-end crop insurance lifecycle including Quoting, Underwriting, Acreage Reporting, Policy Administration, Claims Loss Adjustment, Billing, and Payments.
• Support Guidewire implementations and AMS engagements by validating business rules, workflows, and edge cases.
• Review and signoff on functional requirements, configuration approaches, release content, and defect fixes.
• Act as the go-to advisor during transition, KT, UAT, and regulatory audits.
• Support incident triage and complex production issues (L3 domain support).
• Contribute to RFPs, solution design, estimations, and client workshops.
• Ensure seasonal readiness during planting, acreage reporting, and harvest peak periods.

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting large carriers managing general agents (MGAs).
• Prior involvement in cloud modernization or digital portals.
• Agent/Policyholder exposure to data analytics, loss ratios, yield trends, GIS integrations.