Sr IT Solution Analyst

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* Job Description:

** Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We’re actively seeking a talented Sr IT Solution Analyst to join our Solution Analysis Product team in Newport Beach, CA.As a Sr IT Solution Analyst, you’ll play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success by providing solutions to business problems and needs within the Product domain to drive delivery of solutions.  

You will fill an existing role that sits on a team of 3 people in the Corporate Division. Your colleagues will include fellow Solution Analyst professionals in the CMD Tech Ops Life Product domain.
** How you’ll help move us forward**:

Business Consultation
* Works with the business to drive the evaluation of new business ideas, vendors, and business models across the Product domain.
* Proactively identifies gaps and provides options to address new and current systems, processes, and procedures in a cost-effective manner.
* Collaborates with business across multiple segments to find opportunities for business improvements and leads efforts to translate those objectives into solutions.
* Conducts analysis to determine the best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include business models, process improvements, system enhancements, user training, and/or software procurement.
* Provides an overview of scope for ongoing large business initiatives to help identify dependencies and trends.

Project Delivery
* Supports Project Management, Stakeholders, and Delivery teams to identify and structure projects that evolve and enhance prioritized capabilities.
* Provides oversight and alignment between impacted parties around project scope and identifies alternatives to deliver both the solution and the value expected from the effort.
* Creates scope backlogs that can be translated into a list of work.
* Works with delivery teams to drive the execution of the identified scope.
* Manages stakeholder engagement, awareness, and expectation.
* Prepares communications and makes presentations documenting solutions to determine execution on initiatives.
* Articulates the project scope at all levels of the organization and a broad range of audience.
* Works independently on medium size initiatives and manages the complexity of work, first seeking to understand the problems, and positively working through others to drive execution.
* Plays integral role in the review and approval process of new life insurance contracts (products and riders) to ensure operational supportability.
* Supports Product Design in the delivery of Product Scope, Working Specifications, and Implementation Specifications.

Process Stewardship
* Develops integrated business models to demonstrate interoperability between products, operations, and systems; uses best practices, cohesive framework, and available industry-standard techniques.

Team Development
* Provides different perspectives in deployment discussions to influence best practices and areas for improvement.
* Ensure Solution artifacts and deliverables meet defined quality standards.
** The experience you bring:
*** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
* 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Data Analyst, or Systems Analyst;.
* Broad and deep knowledge of life insurance products
* Works independently, receives minimal guidance.
* Extensive experience in supporting the planning and deployment of process and technology initiatives.
* Exceptional communication skills including the ability to communicate appropriately within the organization and influence others (written and verbal communications as well as visualizations to a variety of audiences).
** What makes you stand out:
*** Operational, life product, and technology knowledge across the Product domain
* Strong leadership skills
* Ability to adapt and respond constructively to changes in organizational priorities and funding decisions.
* Ability to employ a consultative approach to work, understand the needs vs risks and uncover any assumptions for the best possible outcomes.
* Strong situational…