Lead Business Data Analyst with Insurance exp

Job Title: Business / Lead Data Analyst

Location: Boston, MA 4 days/week onsite- locals or nearby only

F2F interview required

Looking for a lead data analyst- someone who has the personality to lead/mentor junior folks! Personality is big for her, needs someone energetic, confident etc

Need to have: Property and Casualty background Strong SQL and ETL Need to have data modeling skills (someone who knows how to model tables, do testing, write queries, understand new data sources). Candidate should be able to investigate new data sources, link tables, flatten it etc.

Lead Business / Data Analyst -Not looking for a developer.

Immediate need for a Senior/Lead Data Analyst position. Candidate would be accountable for the analysis, design support, testing, and implementation of required data changes for all of our company s regulatory and compliance submissions and reports initiated by a regulatory mandate or a discretionary project.

This includes premium and loss-related submissions and reports as well as handling of special audits and market conducts. Primary duties include requirements review, estimation, data and analysis, creation of accurate technical specifications, development team support, thorough quality assurance, implementation tracking, and production validation support.

Additional responsibilities include oversight and management of assigned submissions and reports - monitoring, creation, balancing, ensuring timely delivery, and supporting inquiries from internal and/or external recipients.

This position will evolve into a lead role within the group and will require oversight of projects and resources within the team.
Knowledge, Skills and Education Required
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience), with 5-8 years of software development experience
Experience in querying relational databases
Experience in data mapping and transformation
Knowledge of structured analysis
Experience using a software development life cycle (SDLC) methodology, including project planning and estimating
Experience with SQL with ability to create SQL queries for analysis and testing as well as assist developers in creating queries
Effective oral and written communication skills
Strong organizational skills
Strong analytical skills and technical skills
Ability to work with minimal direction
Ability to lead, direct, and drive efforts of other team members
Ability to work on multiple, concurrent projects
Ability to effectively collaborate and build strong relationships with internal and external partners
Attention to detail and quality
Team player
Strong motivational skills
Duties and Responsibilities Specific responsibilities include:
Analysis and clarification of business requirements both internal and external
Provision of work effort estimates to Project Managers
Development of detailed functional and system specifications using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and software tools.
Collaboration with the Development team in all phases of the SDLC
Development of use cases
Design support, testing and monitoring of all required changes needed to maintain all compliance-related reporting and discretionary projects
Creation of data and transformation mapping specifications
Development of test plans and test cases, and execution of accurate and thorough testing
Involvement in unit, integration, user and performance testing.
Management of requirement and testing accountabilities through working closely with business and IT partners
Support of audits and market conduct exams as needed
Other highly valued skills include:
Knowledge of the Property and Casualty Insurance industry desired
Prior experience with statutory and compliance-related reporting a plus
Proficiency with MS Office suite
Prior Supervisory experience
Exposure to DB2 and SQL Server databases
Exposure to Cloud technologies
Ability to think outside of the box and a strong desire to improve the status quo