Business Systems Analyst – Mastery - Hybrid- Springfield MA, or Boston MA

Business Systems Analyst – Mastery

Domain:  Life Insurance Company

Location: Hybrid, 3 days onsite in either Springfield MA, or Boston MA

Duration: long term contract, possible contract to hire     

MOI: Video + F2F

Candidate should be local with DL

Candidate should have profile picture on LinkedIn

Answer below:

1. Master Policy Record or Policy Administration Platform – years of experience? 
2. What insurance companies have they worked for in their most recent project? 
3. Life, Annuity, or Disability Income – years of experience?
4. Do they have mainframe to AWS migration experience? 

This is a senior Business Systems Analyst (BSA) role focused on a large-scale core platform migration in the life insurance space. You are the bridge between business, IT, vendors, and legacy systems during a high-risk transformation.

This is not a generic BA role and not a technical developer role. It sits squarely in the middle.

Business Systems Analyst

Life Insurance Platform Technology Migration

What You’ll Do

As a Business Systems Analyst, you will take ownership of business analysis activities across the full lifecycle of a large-scale platform transformation. You will be instrumental in ensuring that core capabilities are preserved, enhanced, and successfully migrated.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the elicitation, analysis, validation, and documentation of detailed business and system requirements across product, operations, and technology teams.
• Perform comprehensive gap analysis and business capability assessments, identifying functional and technical gaps between legacy and target platforms.
• Translate business needs into well-defined technical requirements, enabling development and integration teams to deliver effective solutions.
• Analyze and document data migration and integration requirements, including legacy interface redesign, data mapping, dependency analysis, and reuse opportunities.
• Partner with business leaders and IT stakeholders to resolve production issues, support root cause analysis, and guide priority decisions.
• Facilitate requirements workshops and stakeholder meetings, ensuring alignment, clear outcomes, and timely delivery of documentation.
• Collaborate with vendors to evaluate new functionality, assess impacts, and support implementation decisions.
• Influence and negotiate business and system requirements to balance operational needs, technical feasibility, and long-term strategy.
• Support all phases of project execution, including planning, development, testing, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Act as a subject-matter advisor, helping both business and technology teams fully understand system behavior and business rules.
• Provide leadership during escalations, complex issue resolution, and cross-functional coordination.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience working with a Master Policy Record or Policy Administration Platform.
• 5+ years in a Business Systems Analyst supporting enterprise-level systems in Life, Annuity, or Disability Income – Life Insurance Domain Knowledge required. 
• Strong experience eliciting, documenting, and managing business and system requirements for large, complex initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead requirements sessions with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Expertise using Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously in a collaborative environment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently own and drive business analysis efforts from concept through delivery.
• Experience supporting Life, Annuity, and Disability Income insurance products.
• Prior work with Product, Distribution, Policy Administration, and Operational Support teams.
• Hands-on experience with platform migrations, including legacy system decommissioning and interface redesign.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies and validation processes.
• Ability to advise on future-state capabilities based on customer, agent, and internal needs.
• Comfort operating as a leader across both business and technology domains.