Business Analyst-Lead

Saicon Consultants Inc

  • Omaha, NE
  • 4 days ago

    Highlights

    Agile Delivery: Participate in and support Agile ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives); help Product Owners refine, prioritize and sequence the backlog. Stakeholder Management: Serve as a primary liaison between business teams, SMEs and technology; build strong relationships with business partners at all levels and manage expectations on scope and timelines.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationOmaha, NE

    Description

    Key Responsibilities
    Team Leadership:
    • Lead, coach and develop a team of Business Analysts; assign work, review deliverables, conduct one-on-ones and contribute to hiring and performance reviews.
    • BA Practice Standards: Establish and maintain consistent business analysis methods, templates and quality standards for requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows and business rules.
    • Requirements Ownership: Personally elicit, analyze and document complex business requirements; translate them into functional and technical specifications and well-formed user stories.
    • Agile Delivery: Participate in and support Agile ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives); help Product Owners refine, prioritize and sequence the backlog.
    • Stakeholder Management: Serve as a primary liaison between business teams, SMEs and technology; build strong relationships with business partners at all levels and manage expectations on scope and timelines.
    • Process Improvement: Analyze current-state business processes and define improvements to processes and products; assist decision-makers by gathering the information needed for informed decisions.
    • Quality Partnership: Work with QA to ensure test cases trace to user-story acceptance criteria; support UAT planning and execution.
    • Capacity and Reporting: Monitor team workload, resolve impediments, and report on BA progress and risks to IT leadership.
    Required Qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or a related field, or equivalent experience
    • 8+ years of business analysis experience, including 2+ years leading or mentoring BA teams (formal or team-lead capacity)
    • Insurance industry experience required, ideally property and casualty (P&C) at a carrier
    • Working knowledge of insurance products, coverages, rating schemes, policy forms and endorsements
    • Strong command of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and user-story writing with clear acceptance criteria
    • Experience with application lifecycle management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA or Rally
    • SQL knowledge for data analysis and requirements validation
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills with all levels of the organization and with outside parties, including vendors
    Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience with insurance core platforms (e.g., Guidewire PolicyCenter/ClaimCenter/BillingCenter)
    • CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA or Agile certifications (CSPO, SAFe)
    • Background in commercial lines, specialty or reinsurance
    • Prior experience in project management or Product Owner roles

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