高级业务分析师 / 业务架构师，INOW
Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect, INOW
**职位概述**
高级业务分析师/业务架构师直接与客户合作，推动并完成其在Guidewire InsuranceNow中的财产与意外险（P&C）业务需求的完整系统实施。
这些业务架构师与其他支持性的业务分析师在以下领域协作：需求组织、需求计划与监控、需求分析、将需求转化为简化版本、质量保证测试、在InsuranceNow Studio中配置需求、管理预算和时间安排、与关键项目团队和利益相关者保持沟通，以及需求规划和任务分解。
业务架构师帮助推动项目团队实现成功的交付成果，专注于明确且简洁的业务需求和清晰的问题陈述。
**职位描述**
**项目交付成果**
- 参与客户产品或服务项目的各个方面，从启动到安装。
- 积极与客户的业务和技术资源合作，领导并协作编写业务需求和功能设计文档。
- 指导他人在整个实施周期中管理项目实施。
- 主动寻求指导，并向管理层沟通任何不明确的期望或业务问题。
- 管理、建议并领导项目实施中的需求。
- 以深思熟虑的方式与客户积极沟通，必要时与组合管理领导进行互动。
- 负责倡导产品实施的方法论。
- 协助设计并估算产品缺口和增强功能的业务解决方案。
- 与客户和合作伙伴资源合作，利用业务和系统技能理解目标和需求。
- 跟踪工作时间并确保正确的时间报告。
- 可能需要协助对系统交付物进行质量保证测试。
- 负责在实施和发布期间为客户演示和展示系统。
**利益相关者管理**
- 在必要时提供建议并获取利益相关者的反馈。
- 报告所有范围变更和定制化内容。
- 向不同受众清晰且可信地传达问题。
- 作为业务联系人，与项目管理、工程、产品开发联络人以及其他跨职能团队成员进行互动和对齐。
**项目领导力**
- 识别潜在的后果
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**Summary**
The Senior Business Analyst / Business Architect works directly with clients to drive and fulfill their P&C Insurance business requirements for a full system implementation within Guidewire InsuranceNow.
These Business Architects work with other supporting Business Analysts in the following areas: requirements organization, planning and monitoring of requirements, requirements analysis, translating and simplifying requirements, QA testing, requirement configuration within InsuranceNow Studio, management of time for budget and schedule, maintaining communication with key project team and stakeholders, and requirement planning and task breakdown.
The Business Architect helps drive individual project teams to successful delivery outcomes, focusing on delivery of clear and concise business requirements with clear problem statements.
**Job Description**
**Project Deliverables**
- Engages in all aspects of a product or service offering project for a client, from inception to installation.
- Actively consults with client’s business and technical resources to lead and collaborate on business requirements and functional design documents
- Mentors others on managing project implementation throughout implementation cycle
- Actively seeks mentorship and communicates to leadership any unclear expectation or business issue
- Manages, advises and leads requirements on project implementations
- Actively consults with clients in a thoughtful manner, engaging portfolio leadership as needed
- Responsible for advocating the methodology for product implementation
- Helps to design and estimates business solutions for product gaps and enhancements
- Works with customer and partner resources to understand objectives and requirements using both business and system skills
- Tracks work time and ensures correct billable time reporting
- May be required for assistance in quality assurance testing of system deliverables.
- Responsible for customer demos and presentations of the system during Implementation and releases
**Stakeholder Management**
- Advises and gains stakeholder feedback where necessary
- Escalates all scope changes and customizations
- Communicates issues clearly and credibly with widely varied audiences
- Acts as the business point person for interaction and alignment with project management, engineering, product development liaison, and other members of cross-functional teams
**Project Leadership**
- Identifies potential consequences with risk levels and coaches other team members on implementing resolution to problems while escalating as necessary
- Leads team in understanding customer requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis, and problem resolution and gives recommendations for process improvement
**Experience and Qualifications**
- 3+ years of business analyst experience
- 3+ years of P&C Insurance experience
- Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
- Experienced with working in a cross-functional team and with team members in different geographical locations.
- Strong communication, analytical, verbal and written communication skills
- Strong work ethic and ability to self-start
- Strong knowledge of agile software development processes, and iterative development principles.
- Understands basic insurance concepts and can communicate on insurance topics.
- Ability to assess and manage risks and communicate appropriately.
- Preferred: Experienced in directly communicating with and managing expectations of both internal and external executive stakeholders.
- Experienced in developing and maintaining relationships with internal team members, customers and partner organizations.
- Strong self-starter with desire to grow in Insurance Business knowledge.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to present at different levels using various tools (PowerPoint/Google Slides experience required)
- May require travel up to 25%
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $108,000 - $192,000. Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.
Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail Accommodations@guidewire.com to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.
**About Guidewire**
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.
Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.