Lead Business Analyst

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We are seeking a detail-oriented, proactive, and highly skilled Business Analyst to join our dynamic team. As a Business Analyst, you will work closely with stakeholders, including business leaders, IT teams, and other departments, to analyze business processes, identify areas for improvement, and provide solutions that enhance business efficiency and drive growth.

You will

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, objectives, and processes
• Analyze business needs and translate them into functional and technical specifications.
• Epics, Capabilities, Features, and Stories: Ability to break down high-level requirements into epics, capabilities, features, and user stories, and ensure they are well-defined and prioritized.
• Work closely with product owners and development teams to ensure requirements are understood and implemented correctly.
• Define clear and concise acceptance criteria to ensure that requirements are met.
• Backlog Management: Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers to manage and prioritize the program backlog.
• Conduct gap analysis to identify inefficiencies in current business processes and recommend solutions.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and focus groups with key stakeholders to gather insights and refine requirements.
• Review test plans and test cases to ensure that business requirements are met in the final product.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring communication is clear and consistent.
• Support change management efforts, including training and documentation to ensure smooth adoption of new processes or systems.
• Should be able to produce quality documentation
  
  

Your Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Min 8 years of experience working as business analyst in insurance domain.
• Experience with catastrophic modeling
• Should have a very good experience of SDLC with the knowhow of Agile Framework
• Familiarity with insurance products, underwriting processes, reinsurance structures, and regulatory requirements related to catastrophe risk.
• Understanding of Catastrophe Risk & their impact in insurance
• Understanding of Agile and SaFe Principles
• API testing: Proficiency in using Postman for sending API requests, validating responses, and automating tests.
• Data Analysis: Proficiency in data management and analysis tools such as SQL, Excel, R, Python, or other relevant programming languages.
• Requirements Management Tools: Familiarity with tools like JIRA, Confluence.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to engage with various stakeholders, including product owners , underwriters, risk managers, and IT teams, to gather requirements and provide updates.
• Ability to present complex analytical findings and recommendations in a clear and understandable manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaboration: Strong teamwork skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and ensure successful project outcomes.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze large datasets to identify trends, correlations, and insights related to catastrophe risks and losses.
• Problem-Solving Skills & Critical Thinking: Ability to think critically and solve complex problems related to catastrophe risk assessment and management.
• Innovative Solutions: Creativity in developing innovative solutions to mitigate and manage catastrophe risks.
  
  

Your Benefits

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach
  
  

About Allianz Technology

Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 13,000 employees located in 22 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.

We oversee the full digitalization spectrum - from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.

D&I statement

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life.

Join us. Let´s care for tomorrow.

You. IT

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.