Senior Business Analyst Job at XL Catlin in Hartford

Job Description - Senior Business Analyst (25AAOT10D20241008) Senior Business Analyst Hartford, CT | Stamford, CT | USA We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients’ potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously. Make it fun. Know it matters. Senior Business Analysts bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. The Senior Business Analysts will be responsible for supporting an application or multiple applications within a Delivery Team and her/his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests. Senior Business Analysts will also provide senior level support of projects that impact the application(s) s/he supports. Essential Responsibilities: Elicit, analyze and document complex business requirements: collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs, translate them into clear and concise user stories and ensure that requirements are well defined, prioritized and aligned with project goals. Facilitate agile ceremonies and workshops: lead requirements gathering sessions, backlog refinement meetings and other agile ceremonies to foster collaboration, drive consensus and ensure that the team has a shared understanding of the product vision and roadmap. Manage and groom the product backlog: With the business/product owners, prioritize user stories based on business value, dependencies and technical feasibility and continuously refine the backlog to ensure that it remains up to date and aligned with the project needs. Collaborate with development teams and subject matter experts: work closely with developers, testers and other team members to understand technical constraints, provide clarification on requirements and ensure that solutions meet the defined acceptance criteria. Build and maintain outstanding stakeholder relationships at all levels: effectively communicate project progress, risks and issues. Manage stakeholder expectations and address concerns. The Senior Business Analyst reports to the Head of Digital Factory Delivery. Qualifications: Ability to understand general business requirements and implement corresponding technical solutions. Outstanding technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis. Ability to work with data and complex systems. Significant experience in an insurance or technology field. Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile principles. Must have familiarity with Analyst methodologies e.g. Use Cases; Business Rule Development; User Interface Specs; Functional Specs. Must possess excellent interpersonal skills, outstanding communication skills (written and verbal), and be team-oriented. Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative, and user oriented. Able to determine and expertly communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability and maintainability. Ability to manage ambiguity and create accurate project estimates. Accurately quantifies project specific risks through the project lifecycle. Ability to present information in an influencing manner to leadership and all business stakeholders. Superior Stakeholder Management. Proven planning and organization skills, creating own work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales. Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions. Location: US-CT-Hartford Other Locations: US-CT-Hartford, US-CT-Stamford Work Locations: US CT Hartford 100 Constitution Plaza Hartford 06103 Job Field: Information Technology Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any colleague or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status or any other category protected by local law. #J-18808-Ljbffr