SR Business Analyst

Our excellent client is seeking a SR Business Analyst for an 8 months+ W2 contract in Springfield or Boston HYBRID 3 days per week. NO AGENCIES.

Duties:
Serve as a Business Analyst for projects, applications and technologies within Protection New Business and Underwriting.
Support the overall Underwriting organization with a focus on Platform Modernization.
Role includes gathering, synthesizing and documenting business requirements, rules configurations and UAT testing requirements.
Underwriting platform experience a plus.
Must be able to work in a dynamic, matrixed organization, bringing together the perspectives of many and the End-to-End requirements across the customer experience for business sign-off and implementation.

Job Description:
Drive translating business needs into the requirements for Processes and Technology to execute on supporting our customer and employee experiences
Document business requirements with detailed technical specifications
Understand process flows and ensure interconnectivity of systems and applications
Lliaison between Underwriting and other teams and advocate for necessary changes
Translate customer and employee needs into documented, actionable solutions with clear measurement mechanisms in service of business outcomes
Provide proper documentation for the Product team to prioritize features and enhancements against a prioritization framework
Support Business owner, Product Manager and peers to align requirements to roadmaps Proactively identify opportunities to improve business processes by maintaining a strong knowledge of available and upcoming features delivered by external vendors
Ensure development outputs meet business expectations by maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with technical and architecture teams
Keep change management principles in mind, to work with the team to establish launch readiness in response to system and process updates
Work independently and with management on highly visible, divisional/cross-divisional complex products and projects
Be sought as a key resource for documentation of unique or complex business problems
Drive continuous improvement and efficiencies beyond own scope of responsibility
Skills: Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree
7+ years' experience supporting projects and driving execution of
7+ complex technical work
Business Analyst experience for Underwriting systems Understanding of Waterfall and Agile processes and documentation
Strong requirements documentation skills
Ability to drill down from the big picture to process details
Ability to think strategically and collaborate across diverse teams and organizations