Senior Business Analyst

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.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• 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 Release Train Engineer - Middle Markets.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• 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;
  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.
• First-class 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.

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business – property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.