Guidewire Business Analyst

Job Title: Guidewire Sr. Business Analyst

Location: Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Duration: Long Term Contract

About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.

Position Description:

The Property & Casualty Insurance team is looking to staff client engagements with skilled Guidewire Business Analysts. We are looking to staff using a combination of existing Property & Casualty Insurance Vertical members and new additions.

This role is located at a client site in Greenville SC. A hybrid working model is acceptable.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

As a senior BA, the person will:

• Be reporting into the Program Director for performing business analysis function
• Work in a fast paced cross functional agile (Scrum/SAFe) work environment
• Lead requirements for Guidewire Policy Center, Integration functions.
• Work with client SME to elicit business and technical requirements.
• Conduct and facilitate workshops / JAD sessions, etc., with internal and client stake holders; Seek timely approvals from the client SME / stakeholders Gather requirements for “External Rating” modules and external vendor integrations (Lexis Nexis)
• Document requirements specifications for data analysis, data mappings for Guidewire, third party integrations and transformation
• Develop functional specifications in the form of User Stories, process flows, use cases, data mappings leveraging tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Rally, etc.,
• Conduct user story / sprint demonstrations at the end of sprint / release
• Participate in agile sprint ceremonies, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospective sessions
• Conduct end user training by means of workshops, training guides and operation manuals
• Work with globally distributed across geographies for the purpose of delivering
• Work with internal development, testing teams to support requirements clarifications throughout the project execution
• Work with Requirements Manger, Scrum Master and Program Manager for various project activities

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Mandatory Skills:

• 10 – 12 years of experience in delivering wide range of technology solution across Insurance Industry
• At least 5-7 years of experience in Guidewire Policy Center, Rating and Integrations
• Hands on experience working on Guidewire Advance product designer, data dictionary, underwriting rules framework etc.
• Experience in data analysis, data mappings for Guidewire and third-party integrations
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Requirement gathering and business process understanding
• Translating business needs into clear functional requirements and user stories
• Working closely with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, QA, and architects
• Supporting backlog refinement, acceptance criteria definition, and delivery readiness
• Bringing practical understanding of Policy Center configuration and business process impacts
• Helping bridge the gap between business expectations and technology execution
• Contributing domain insight, especially where commercial trucking workflows, policy structures, and underwriting considerations are involved.

Nice to have:

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

Technical Skills:

• 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 DB and analyze results
• Experience working on XML and JSON structures
• Excellent Domain knowledge in Property & Casualty Insurance to understand and analyze the business needs of the customer
• Detailed knowledge of Guidewire applications specifically Policy Center and Rating
• Experience in documenting specifications for Rating (Rate book, rate table and rate routines),
• Experience in data analysis, 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 tester to implement and test a functionality
• Ability to lead and facilitate the 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, Architect, developers and testers to ensure the solution is built in accordance to 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 problem
• Ability to work in the global delivery model and be a liaison between the client and software development team in the situation across different geographies
• Experience in working in fast paced Agile (Scrum/SAFe) and multiple stakeholder environments
• Exposure to Insurance Policy Data Conversion
• Implementing Guidewire Policy Center - Personal Lines of Business for an US carrier is an asset.

Employment Practices:

EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant

VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.