Job Title: Business Analyst (P&C Insurance & Legal Matter)
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid 2 days office)
Job Summary
Value Technology is seeking a skilled Business Analysis Specialist to collaborate with business stakeholders and Agile teams to gather, analyze, and document business requirements. The ideal candidate will play a key role in supporting Agile program initiatives, maintaining product backlogs, and ensuring solutions meet business and technical requirements within the P&C insurance domain.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines and collaborates with stakeholders to plan and conduct working sessions where business requirements are elicited and reviewed. Collaborate with ART Team and own Agile Program Vision, Backlog and Program Increment (PI) Roadmap, continuously communicating to the ART leaders and Team levels requirement and acceptance criteria with required documents within tools like Confluence (e.g., use cases, process flows, business rules, user interface mock-ups, etc.) for the concept and definition phases of the project.
Supports system test planning to ensure that test conditions, scripts, validation criteria, and expected results will successfully test the business and non-functional requirements. Participates in design reviews to ensure that detailed designs meet the needs of business and non-functional requirements. Manages requirements process using the appropriate requirement management tools (e.g., Jira).
Assures that necessary research is performed in order to fully understand the business issues, develop possible business solutions, and support the development of innovative, cost-effective solutions.
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Broad understanding of the P&C insurance industry, its products, practices, and operations.
- Strong experience in Property & Casualty with Insurance Domain.
- Broad knowledge of the system development life cycle and technology alternatives using Agile methodologies; understanding of interface design and external vendor integrations.
- Experience in Legal Matter workflows and lifecycle.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Solid oral and written communication skills and ability to convey business requirements with Agility and backlog maintenance & refinement.
- Solid client and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with clients and IT staff.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite and other business-related software systems.