Guidewire Sr. Business Analyst

Position Description

We’re seeking experienced Guidewire Business Analysts to help drive success on high-impact client engagements. This is an exciting opportunity to work on transformative projects within the Property & Casualty Insurance space, leveraging your expertise to deliver innovative solutions. We’re building a best-in-class team by combining the deep knowledge of our existing P&C Insurance Vertical members with fresh talent and new perspectives.

If you’re passionate about technology, insurance, and creating real business value, we want you on our team! This position is located in the client office in Webster, MA.

• Report to the Program Director and perform core business analysis functions
• Operate in a fast-paced, cross-functional Agile environment (Scrum/SAFe)
• Lead requirements gathering for Guidewire Policy Center and integration functions
• Collaborate with client SMEs to elicit business and technical requirements
• Facilitate workshops and JAD sessions; obtain timely stakeholder approvals
• Gather requirements for external rating modules and vendor integrations (e.g., Lexis Nexis)
• Document specifications for data analysis, mappings, and transformations across Guidewire and third‑party integrations
• Develop functional specifications (user stories, process flows, use cases, data mappings) using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Rally
• Conduct sprint demonstrations and participate in Agile ceremonies (stand‑ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives)
• Deliver end‑user training through workshops, guides, and operational manuals

• 10–12 years of experience delivering a wide range of technology solutions across the Insurance industry
• At least 5–7 years of experience in Guidewire Policy Center, Rating, and Integrations
• Hands‑on experience with Guidewire Advance product designer, data dictionary, underwriting rules framework, etc.
• Experience in data analysis and data mappings for Guidewire and third‑party integrations
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills

• Guidewire Policy Center functional certifications
• Agile certifications (Scrum/SAFe)
• Insure Tech enthusiasm

• Guidewire application knowledge (Policy Center, Integrations)
• Experience using management tools like Confluence, JIRA, Rally, HP ALM
• Expertise in using Microsoft Office suite, Visio, etc.
• Ability to query SQL databases and analyze results
• Experience working with XML and JSON structures
• Excellent domain knowledge in Property & Casualty Insurance
• Detailed knowledge of Guidewire applications specifically Policy Center and Rating
• Experience documenting specifications for Rating (Rate book, rate table and rate routines)
• Experience in data analysis and data mappings for Guidewire and third‑party integrations
• Expertise in creating functional specifications in the form of user stories, process flows, use cases, data mappings
• Experienced at gathering, defining, and organizing business and functional requirements including acceptance criteria for use by developers and testers to implement and test a functionality
• Ability to lead and facilitate requirements‑gathering sessions
• Eliciting requirements and scope using client interviews, document review, legacy analysis, survey, and translating client requirements into agile user stories
• Collaboratively work closely with business product owners, actuaries, architects, developers and testers to ensure the solution is built in accordance with defined requirements
• Identifying, capturing, resolving or escalating risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity:
  He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business problems
• Ability to work in a global delivery model and act as a liaison between the client and software development team across different geographies
• Experience working in a fast‑paced Agile (Scrum/SAFe) environment with multiple stakeholders

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