Overview
Ivans Insurance Solutions, a division of Applied Systems, is currently searching for a Business Analyst to join the Ivans Insights Product Management team. Product Management is the intersection between business, technology, and user experience. The Ivans Insights Product Management team is responsible for strategic analysis, product vision, and tactical execution of product releases for the Ivans Insights line of products.
Under the general direction of the Product Manager, the Business Analyst ensures a product’s core features and functionality meet the needs of the customers. For Ivans Insights, this means empowering users with analytics and data-driven solutions to guide their short and long-term decisions and strategic initiatives.
The Business Analyst makes sure the most valuable things to the market and to the company are aligned and included in the minimum viable delivery of the product initiative. Additionally, the Business Analyst defines, analyzes, and documents requirements for the product initiatives. This process includes writing user stories, detailing acceptance criteria, and managing requirements with the Product Owner at the project level.
What You’ll Do
- Understands, supports, and delivers on the corporate roadmap, vision, and goals
- Collaborates with Product Manager and Product Owner to establish product release vision, breaking down release-level themes / initiatives into features and user stories
- Communicates release level business needs to teams and stakeholders; sets appropriate acceptance criteria to meet business needs for minimum viable to market
- Works with clients and stakeholders to gather business needs and elicit, translate, and simply turn them into requirements.
- Plans, monitors, and analyzes the requirements throughout the roadmap and release planning, ensuring development teams can be continually fed.
- Works with peer Business Analysts & Product Managers regarding cross-team dependencies. Consistently mindful of improving portfolio interests, not just product interests.
- Creates technical specifications, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria for engineering
- Develops test cases and data that ensure the requirements and acceptance criteria are met and verified to support a successful release
- Supports the Product Owner in managing the lifecycle of the release by ensuring proper development and testing to meet the needs of the business requirements in an agile environment
- Participates in discovery calls with partners to assist Product Management with developing and maintaining a mature, feature-rich backlog
- Creates and maintains workflow diagrams to assist the design team when building partner-facing UIs
- Communicates with internal stakeholders regarding the building, maintaining, and supporting of the products
What You’ll Need to Succeed
We’re looking for someone who :
Can work remotely or from an Ivans officeYour experience should include some or all of the following :
3+ years’ experience in Business Analysis in a related industryStrong experience working with stakeholders to establish business requirements and then translate them into technical / functional requirementsAbility to collaborate on programming and analytical problemsStrong quantitative, research, and Data Analytic skillsStrong writing and communication skillsAbility to work as a member of cross-functional teams to help design solutionsHighly motivated self-starter with the ability to work efficiently with minimal supervisionAbility to anticipate business needs and think with a business owner mindsetBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or similar background gained through professional work experienceWe proudly support and encourage people with military experience, as well as military spouses, to applyAdditionally, you may have :
InsurTech or FinTech experienceExperience with Agency Management or Policy Administration SystemsExperience with Jira and ConfluenceExperience with the Google Cloud PlatformAbility to comfortably and confidently present to all levels within the enterpriseUnderstanding of and interest in business processes and how systems support the work efforts of product usersKnowledge of JSON data standardsBeing a part of Ivans
Benefits from Day One
Health insurance plans, dental, and visionWellness incentives401(k) and / or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer matchWork-Life Balance
Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthdayPersonal / sick timePaid holidaysFlex TimeVolunteer time offEmpowering Career Growth and Success – We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.
Moving the Insurance Industry Forward
Digital connectivity is the lifeblood of innovation, and at Ivans, we are literally at the heart of what is driving innovation across the entire insurance ecosystem. This is just one of the things that makes Ivans such a cool place to work. Making a difference – for the industry and within our team – is what pushes us to do better each day.
Our culture is about more than developing the best technology. It’s about being innovative, investing in our team, creating a customer-centric environment, and setting the industry up for the future. A big part of that is attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent for our business and our future. That’s where you come in. You’ll get to work with amazing people on cool innovation that brings the industry forward.
Visit ivans.com to learn how you can join us.
EEO Statement
Ivans is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Ivans, we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
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