Guidewire Sr. Business Analyst

Job Summary

The Property & Casualty Insurance team seeks skilled Guidewire Business Analysts for client engagements. This role is based at a client site in Greenville, SC, with a hybrid work model acceptable.

Responsibilities

As a Senior BA, you will:

• Report to the Program Director for business analysis functions.
• Work in a fast-paced, cross-functional agile (Scrum/SAFe) environment.
• Lead requirements for Guidewire Policy Center and Integration functions.
• Collaborate with client SMEs to elicit business and technical requirements.
• Conduct and facilitate workshops and JAD sessions with internal and client stakeholders.
• Gather requirements for External Rating modules and third-party integrations (e.g., Lexis Nexis).
• Document requirements specifications for data analysis, data mappings for Guidewire, and third-party integrations.
• Develop functional specifications using User Stories, process flows, use cases, and data mappings in tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Rally.
• Conduct user story/sprint demonstrations at the end of each sprint/release.
• Participate in agile sprint ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Conduct end-user training through workshops, guides, and manuals.
• Work with globally distributed teams.
• Support requirements clarifications with internal development and testing teams.
• Collaborate with Requirements Managers, Scrum Masters, and Program Managers.

Required Qualifications

Mandatory Skills

• 10-12 years of experience delivering technology solutions in the Insurance Industry.
• 5-7 years of experience with Guidewire Policy Center, Rating, and Integrations.
• Hands-on experience with Guidewire tools like Advance Product Designer, Data Dictionary, and Underwriting Rules Framework.
• Experience in data analysis and data mappings for Guidewire and third-party integrations.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Strong requirement gathering and business process understanding.
• Ability to translate business needs into functional requirements and user stories.
• Experience working closely with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, QA, and architects.
• Support for backlog refinement, acceptance criteria definition, and delivery readiness.
• Practical understanding of Policy Center configuration and its business process impacts.
• Ability to bridge the gap between business expectations and technology execution.
• Domain insight, particularly in commercial trucking workflows, policy structures, and underwriting.

Nice to Have

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

Technical Skills

• Guidewire application knowledge (Policy Center, Integrations).
• Experience with management tools like Confluence, Jira, Rally, HP ALM.
• Expertise in Microsoft Office suite and Visio.
• Ability to query SQL databases and analyze results.
• Experience 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, rate routines).
• Expertise in creating functional specifications (User Stories, process flows, use cases, data mappings).
• Experience gathering, defining, and organizing business and functional requirements, including acceptance criteria.
• Ability to lead and facilitate requirements gathering sessions.
• Eliciting requirements and scope through client interviews, document review, legacy analysis, and surveys.
• Collaborative work with business product owners, actuaries, architects, developers, and testers.
• Identifying, capturing, resolving, or escalating risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Strong business judgment, leadership, and integrity.
• Ability to work in a global delivery model and act as a liaison between clients and development teams.
• Experience in fast-paced Agile (Scrum/SAFe) environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Exposure to Insurance Policy Data Conversion.
• Experience implementing Guidewire Policy Center for Personal Lines of Business for a US carrier is a plus.