IT Business Analyst researches and analyzes improvement opportunities, conducts analysis, prepares recommendations, and facilitates implementation of technology solutions that meet business needs. This role provides opportunities to continuously evolve practices and do things differently. It encourages exposure and upskilling to acquire new skillsets, knowledge and experience. The outcome will directly impact the speed of achieving organization objectives and quality of deliverables.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in BA role
• Experience in Life Insurance organization is a must
• Experience in writing business and technical requirements is a must, preferably for workflow, document management system, document generation engine and APIs
• Delivery experience in Agile preferred
• Experience working with regional development team preferred

• Serves as the liaison and the reference point between the business and the technical analyst in making sure the requirements are clearly understood and translated to the functional requirements by leveraging on the resources and skill-set within and across the work-streams
• Support product owner, SME (Subject Matter Expert), engineers and architects in solutioning conversations, ensuring optimum leverage in underlying components while meeting business needs
• Conduct prioritization with product owner
• Play scrum master role and perform sprint planning
• Ensure squad members have accurate understanding on user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ensure delivery (code/product) is adequately tested to an acceptable standards
• Ensure UAT sign off is secured for deployment into production
• Use data to elaborate and justify
• Escalate risks and issue as necessary
• Effectively conveys complex concepts and information, transforming technical details into business insights and advice
• Influences key stakeholders (peers, leaders) to consider alternative perspectives and providing technical inputs to inform decisions
• Specialized depth of expertise in the technical and functional knowledge in life insurance
• Applies and integrates knowledge from the discipline and the domain to devise effective approaches to work products
• Contributes to setting standards through expertise in own job discipline that impacts others’ deliverables
• May lead medium to large size projects or work streams with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity with multiple teams representing different interests
• Provides guidance to others and may serve as a point of escalation for professional advice; gains guidance from Lead(s)
• Uses analytical thought to exercise judgment and contributes to the development of new solutions
• Impacts the achievement of operational, project or service objectives that may have influence on the organization
• Interprets and documents business and functional requirements
• Research and documents issues involving workflow procedures and processes
• Analyzes data and develops creative solutions
• Coordinates recommended process changes, enhncements and product implementations, including test plans to ensure successful implementation
• Collaborates with Engineering and Architecture teams to create detailed system maps, illustrating the flow of data, processes, and interactions within existing and proposed systems
• Translates business and user requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories
• Facilitates the design sessions with the project implementation team
• Determines the acceptance testing framework and standards to assess completed projects
• Assists in translating User stories and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Conducts review sessions to gain approval of requirements and manage changes through the application of standard control processes and tools
• Evaluates and recommends technological solutions that align with business needs and industry leading practices
• Facilitates communication between business stakeholders and technical teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Collaborates with development teams to ensure successful implementation of system enhancements or new solutions
• In-depth understanding of business analysis principles and methodologies, and technological systems
• Good understanding of the group function including product offerings, and service and management structure
• Understanding of system design and analysis and user testing
• Experienced using business analysis tools and techniques
• Ability to cultivate relationships with key stakeholders representing a broad range of functions and levels
• Understanding of relevant software development methodologies
• Familiarity with enterprise-level systems and applications