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**Location by Preference:** Austin, Houston, Richmond

**Hybrid:** 3-days per week

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Job Summary:

+ The **Sr. Business Systems Analyst** is the primary interface among the business application team, senior stakeholders and executives in order to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems.

+ The **Sr. Business Systems Analyst** understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends and documents solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

+ This position is to support the Data Integrations Solutions team, the candidate will define and document data flows between systems.

Job Responsibilities:

+ **BSA for Surety Bonds**

+ Responsible for developing requirements and specifications that support the projects assigned to: business requirements, functional requirements, system requirements, and report specifications.

+ Acts as a senior team member to ensure projects and tasks continue to align with project charter and business cases.

+ Develops test scenarios and test cases for use in system and integration testing.

+ Provides expertise to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the desired business outcomes.

+ Provides expertise in the modelling/mapping of business processes; conducts as-is/to-be business processes, is instrumental in the business process re-engineering (BPR) and involved in the change management exercise.

+ Writes and presents business cases.

+ Occasionally required to work late evening and weekends as needed.

**Education:** Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience

Certifications:

+ LEAN and/or Agile certifications a plus

+ Insurance certifications or affiliation with industry group a plus

+ Previous experience working with **surety bonds** (huge plus)

Work Experience:

+ 5+ years relevant professional experience

+ 5+ years’ experience as a business systems analyst, ideally gained in either an insurance or insurance related business environment.

+ Experienced practitioner of analysis and modelling tools

+ Significant Experience with Agile processes and frameworks

+ Familiarity with design thinking and customer centric design

Skill Sets:

+ Excellent stakeholder management and written and oral communication skills

+ Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; ability to identify, resolve issues with minimal guidance

+ Ability to communicate highly technical information in a business-friendly manner

+ Can identify dependencies beyond immediate work

+ Excellent collaborative skills and facilitation skills

+ Strong organization and time management skills

+ Attention to detail and focused on accuracy

+ Strong desire for continuous improvement

+ Viewed as leader in team; coaches and mentors less experienced team members

+ Demonstrated history of building partnerships across all teams and levels

+ Ability to convey information needed with few iterations

+ Strong data querying and data interpretation skills with good understanding of database concepts.

+ Sound understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing.

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