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Title: Guidewire Business Analyst with Commercial Lines
Location: NY, NJ, or CT Hybrid 02 days per week
Duration: Long Term
Experience: 10 Years
MUST HAVE: Guidewire Implementation project exp, P&C Insurance domain, Commercial Lines, Business Analysis
Role Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Guidewire Business Analyst with strong Commercial Insurance domain expertise to bridge business and technology teams in Guidewire transformation and modernization programs. The candidate will work closely with underwriting, policy administration, product, claims, and IT stakeholders to define requirements, support solution design, and ensure successful delivery of Guidewire implementations.
Key Responsibilities
Business & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as single point of contact for business stakeholders, product owners, and client leadership
- Lead requirements discovery workshops, backlog grooming, and solution walkthroughs
- Drive business alignment, prioritization, and scope management across initiatives
- Work closely with Guidewire architects, developers, QA teams, and product owners throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support CAB, change requests (CRs), and release governance processes
Functional & Solution Ownership
- Perform gap analysis between current-state and future-state business processes.
- Translate business needs into functional designs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution options
- Provide domain leadership across P&C areas: Policy, Claims, Billing, Underwriting, Reinsurance
- Support configuration and implementation of Guidewire applications, including: Guidewire PolicyCenter, Guidewire BillingCenter & Guidewire ClaimCenter
- Support data migration, integrations, and reporting requirements.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and commercial insurance business requirements.
- Review and validate solution designs with architects and ensure business intent is preserved
- Guide offshore BAs and review their deliverables for quality and completeness
Delivery & Quality Assurance
- Partner with delivery teams across Agile / SAFe delivery models
- Oversee UAT strategy, test scenario validation, defect triage, and business sign off
- Ensure traceability from requirements design build test release
Program & Transformation Support
- Contribute to roadmap definition, process optimization, and modernization initiatives
- Support data, integration, and reporting requirements including upstream/downstream dependencies
- Assist leadership with status reporting, risk identification, and mitigation planning
Required Skills & Experience
Domain & Functional
- 8 years of hands on experience in US Property & Casualty Insurance Products
- Strong understanding of end to end P&C lifecycle and regulatory considerations
- Experience working directly with North American insurers and business users
Guidewire Expertise
- 3 years of Business Analysis experience on Guidewire implementation or enhancement projects.
- Strong understanding of Guidewire data model, workflows, product configuration, and integrations.
- Experience working on one or more Guidewire modules: PolicyCenter, BillingCenter & ClaimCenter.
- Familiarity with Guidewire Cloud implementations is desirable.
Technical & Platform Exposure
- Experience in Guidewire Cloud migration or transformation programs.
- Knowledge of rating engines, product configuration, and underwriting rules.
- Solid understanding of integrations, APIs, data flows, and reporting
- Working knowledge of SQL for data validation and analysis
- Experience with Agile tools (JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps)
Leadership & Communication
- Proven ability to work in an onshore offshore delivery model
- Excellent client facing communication, documentation, and presentation skills
- Strong ownership mindset with ability to influence decisions and drive outcomes
Preferred Qualifications
- Guidewire certifications and Experience with Commercial Lines modernization initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Insurance, or related field.