Lead IT Business Systems Analyst
Cleveland, OHOur 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.
Required:
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
How to Apply
Find Out More!Send your resume to recruitZVW@precmgmt.com.Please reference opening number 5424W