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About Tachyon Technologies:
Tachyon Technologies is a Digital Transformation consulting firm that partners with businesses to implement customer-focused business transformation. Aligned with SAP's digital core, Tachyon Technologies collaborates with its clients to transform their business by leveraging existing IT investments and leading-edge digital solutions to positively impact their customers' experience. From initiation through realization, Tachyon Technologies understands what it takes for a consulting partner to be effective and strives to deliver a meaningful solution that exceeds its clients' expectations.
Need locals or someone who can relocate to Chicago
Experience Level: 7+ years overall experience | 3+ years in Commercial Underwriting
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Insurance Business Analyst with hands-on experience in Commercial Underwriting. The ideal candidate will have deep domain knowledge across commercial lines such as General Liability, Commercial Auto, Property, and Workers' Compensation, and will serve as a critical liaison between underwriting teams, product managers, and technology stakeholders.
You will play a key role in transforming underwriting processes, defining business requirements, supporting platform enhancements, and ensuring successful delivery of underwriting systems and solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Collaborate with underwriters, product teams, and operations to gather, document, and analyze underwriting requirements and pain points.
Translate business needs into functional requirements, use cases, user stories, and process flows.
Work with technology teams to support the design and implementation of underwriting systems, tools, and workflow automation.
Drive initiatives to improve underwriting efficiency, decision-making, and compliance with underwriting guidelines.
Participate in solution validation through UAT planning, test case development, and defect triage.
Support change management, training, and rollout activities for new underwriting capabilities or process updates.
Monitor industry trends and regulatory changes to ensure underwriting processes remain compliant and competitive.
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in the commercial insurance industry.
3+ years of direct experience working with or supporting commercial underwriting teams.
Strong understanding of commercial insurance products and workflows including GL, Auto, Property, Workers' Comp, and Excess/Umbrella.
Experience with policy administration systems (e.g., Guidewire PolicyCenter, Duck Creek, or equivalent).
Proficiency in documenting business and functional requirements in Agile/Scrum environments.
Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with submission intake, appetite and eligibility, risk assessment, and referral workflows.
Familiarity with underwriting workbench platforms, rating models, and third-party data integration.
Experience supporting digital transformation or legacy modernization efforts in underwriting.
Knowledge of ISO/NCCI rules and regulatory compliance in commercial lines.
Tachyon's full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities, and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Tachyon a great place to work.
Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.