Guidewire Business Analyst

Job Description

Knowledge & Skills

• 8+ years experience in business analysis with a focus on insurance
• 8+ years facilitating agreement between several stakeholders with different opinions to obtain business requirements
• 5+ years senior level communications experience including document prep, conducting workshops and presentation to executive level
• 7+ years in an Agile environment with exposure to SCRUM, and Lean methodologies
• Working with Guidewire products, specifically, Billing center
• Understand Guidewire implementation methodology and processes
• Experience implementing Guidewire products
• Working with Agile practices and associated skills including user story writing and defining user acceptance criteria
• Analyze a broadly-defined area and using functional decomposition to define high-level epics and stories
• Create a well-organized, value-driven framework to provide the required business value in the Product Backlog.
• Write individual stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.
• Identify related user stories and epics, group them into themes as necessary and document the interrelationship and associated business process flows
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to nontechnical team members and clients.
• Proven experience with end-to-end business process mapping, business and technical requirements analysis, business planning, modeling, verification and methodology and product development.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills to effectively build relationships and influence decisions
• Influential skills include conflict management, negotiation and facilitation skills to act as a consultant in various forms to resolve issues, diffuse conflicts and handle escalated sensitive issues from team members and to alert project sponsors of serious repercussions.
• Analytical, evaluation and problem-solving skills, to assess client requirements and translate
• these into functional and information documentation (e.g. re process/IT requirements and
• changes).