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Business Systems Analyst – Guidewire Policy Modernization
Contract Position
Locations:
- Plano, TX – Hybrid (3 Days Onsite / 2 Remote)
- San Antonio, TX – Hybrid (3 Days Onsite / 2 Remote)
Position Overview
Seeking an experienced Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to support a large-scale Policy Modernization initiative within a Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance environment. This role will work closely with Guidewire development, architecture, product, and business teams to support enterprise modernization efforts focused on Guidewire platform implementations, integrations, and data-driven business processes.
The ideal candidate has strong experience gathering and translating business requirements, supporting large enterprise implementations, and working within Guidewire or insurance technology ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to gather, analyze, and document business and system requirements
- Support Guidewire modernization and implementation initiatives across policy, billing, and claims domains
- Translate business needs into detailed functional and technical requirements, user stories, workflows, and process documentation
- Facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder meetings, and solution discussions
- Create and maintain:
- Business requirements documents (BRDs)
- Functional specifications
- Process flows
- User stories
- Acceptance criteria
- Traceability documentation
- Work closely with development and QA teams to support testing, validation, and defect resolution
- Assist with data mapping, API integration requirements, and downstream system impacts
- Support Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
- Identify project risks, gaps, dependencies, and process improvement opportunities
- Ensure alignment between business objectives and technical delivery
Required Qualifications
- 5 years of Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst experience
- Experience supporting medium-to-large enterprise technology implementations
- Strong experience gathering and documenting complex business and technical requirements
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery environments
- Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills
- Ability to work independently in fast-paced enterprise environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Preferred Qualifications
Insurance & Guidewire Experience
- Experience with:
- Guidewire PolicyCenter
- Guidewire BillingCenter
- Guidewire ClaimCenter
- Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance experience strongly preferred
- Experience supporting policy modernization initiatives
Technical & Data Experience
- Familiarity with:
- APIs and system integrations
- Kafka
- CDC (Change Data Capture)
- Spark
- Flink
- EMR
- Athena
- AWS cloud environments
- Experience supporting enterprise data platforms or modernization projects
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Enterprise Business Analyst with insurance technology experience
- Comfortable bridging business and technical teams
- Strong documentation and process-mapping background
- Experience supporting Guidewire or large policy administration modernization efforts
- Able to manage multiple stakeholders and complex enterprise initiatives
- Strong collaborator with development, QA, architecture, and product teams
Salary : $65 - $95