What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead IT Business Systems Analyst position at Precision System Design Inc.?
Our direct, Fortune 100 client is looking for a lead-level, REMOTE IT Business Systems Analyst for a 12-month, extendable contract position. You'd be joining the project as a liaison between the Business and IT for various Quoting applications (prior experience as a BSA in a P&C Insurance environment is strongly preferred . Your primary responsibilities would involve requirements elicitation, documentation, and management within Azure DevOps, as well as system analysis and process mapping.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
- Facilitate meetings with business partners to understand business needs and objectives.
- Analyze current-state and future-state business processes.
- Gather, document, and refine business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
- Translate business goals into actionable user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
- Assess impacts across Agency Quoting, Vendor Quoting, Product, Policy, and Servicing systems.
Identify dependencies, assumptions, risks, and gaps in requirements.
Solution Design & Consultation
- Collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to define solution approaches.
- Consult on technical solutions to business problems.
- Evaluate multiple solution options and document pros, cons, and business impacts.
- Validate solutions align with business objectives and operational processes.
Review designs for completeness and traceability to requirements.
Agile Delivery Support
- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release planning.
- Create and maintain epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Support estimation and prioritization activities.
- Clarify requirements throughout development and testing.
Assist teams in resolving requirement-related questions and issues during implementation
Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary liaison between business and technology teams.
- Present recommendations, impacts, and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
- Facilitate decision-making discussions and drive issue resolution.
- Communicate project status, risks, and requirement changes.
Essential Skills:
Business Analysis
- Requirements elicitation and discovery
- Functional and non-functional requirements documentation
- User story development
- Acceptance criteria definition
- Business process modeling
- Current-state and future-state analysis
- Gap analysis
- Root-cause analysis
- Impact assessment
- Traceability management
Agile & Delivery Skills
- Backlog management
- Sprint planning participation
- Release planning support
- Estimation facilitation
- Risk management
- Dependency management
- Cross-functional team leadership
Technical Acumen
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- API and system integration concepts
- Data analysis and data mapping
- Application architecture fundamentals
- Testing methodologies
- Database fundamentals
- Cloud technology awareness
- Technical dependency identification
- Ability to communicate effectively with developers and architects
Plusses:
- Quoting and rating systems
- Personal lines insurance products and concepts
- Insurance & Agency Quoting Domain Knowledge
- Policy and product dependencies
- State-specific quoting considerations
- Vendor Quoting workflows
- End-to-end quoting lifecycle understanding
- Knowledge of Accessibility standards and testing tools (WCAG, Axe, Evinced, etc.)
- Knowledge and ability to leverage AI tools in daily work (Copilot, Codex, Claude, etc.)
- Familiarity with industry standards, such as ACORD
- AzDO
- Comparative rater integrations
- State-specific quoting and rating considerations
- Understanding of vendor integrations and business rules management
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We will review your resume and call if you are qualified.
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REFERRALS WANTED - $ 1000 REWARD!
Refer a colleague to us, and Precision will give you $ 1000 if we find a job for that person!
(The fine print: The referred candidate must be previously unknown to us. Start date must be within 6 months of referral.)
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WHY WORK WITH PRECISION?
Our Clients. We work with the best.
- We are direct vendors to Fortune 500 companies across North America
- We're the top provider of contract IT professionals to many of our clients
Our Experience. We know how to sell our candidates to clients.
- We've been in business for over 20 years, and have made thousands of successful placements
Our Background. Precision is run by former IT professionals.
- We know what it is like to be an IT consultant working in a large organization.
- We actually understand your skills. We'll make sure that you are right for the job, and that the job is right for you.
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- We take the time to learn about you so that we can best match you to our openings and sell you to our clients.
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Our Ethics. We pride ourselves on our ethical business practices.
- We never submit your resume without your permission, and we never give your resume to other staffing companies
- We are up front about pay rates and the interviewing process, and provide you with constant feedback.
Our Responsibility. We take seriously our obligations to our consultants.
- We always pay on time
- We offer highly competitive pay rates, as well as an opportunity to participate in our group health insurance, long term disability and 401(k) plans.
- When required, we carefully manage H1-B and applications, and involve you at every step.
- We have dedicated HR personnel that will answer the phone when you call.
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Job ID 5424DI-0043