Mastery Business Analyst

Mastery Business Analyst

Location: Boston, MA

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid 3 days in office per week (Fridays must be remote)

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 5 months
• Pay Rate: $71.42 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days; Fridays remote
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

Serve as a Business Analyst for projects, applications, and technologies within Protection New Business and Underwriting. Directly 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 is required. 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.

As a Business Analyst, you will drive translating business needs into the requirements for Processes and Technology to execute on supporting our customer and employee experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Document business requirements with detailed technical specifications
• Understand process flows and ensure interconnectivity of systems and applications
• Act as a liaison 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
• Update procedural and process changes
• 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

Required Skills

• 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
• Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and organizations
• UAT experience
• Life insurance underwriting required (individual/not group Life: Protection underwriting, Disability, Annuity, Long Term Care, Case Management Underwriting new business; Life insurance underwriting required vs. property/casualty)

Preferred Skills

• Individual who enjoys solving complex problems and improving team processes
• Life underwriting knowledge
• Exposure to customer experience/user experience practices
• Proven ability to partner with cross-functional teams to design, configure, test, and deploy
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing business priorities
• Experience with additional requirements tools including JIRA and Confluence
• AI exposure

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (required)

Required Experience

• 7 years' experience supporting projects and driving execution of complex technical work

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This financial services organization operates within the life insurance and protection underwriting space, serving customers across the U.S. with a focus on individual life, disability, annuity, and long-term care products. The company is currently undertaking a significant underwriting platform modernization initiative, employing business analysts, project managers, technology specialists, and underwriting professionals who collaborate across matrixed, cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end business and technology solutions.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-10994 Industry: Data & Analytics

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