Insurance Software Business Analyst (Hybrid)

DXC Technology; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking an Insurance Software Business Analyst for a hybrid role in Toronto. The successful candidate will support software development for New Business and Underwriting within the Canadian Life Insurance industry. Candidates should have at least 5-10 years of relevant experience, proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and strong skills in SQL and business analysis. This position offers a dynamic environment focused on innovation and customer experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-10 years experience in the Canadian Life Insurance industry focused within New Business and Underwriting.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle for both Waterfall and Agile with Scrum methodologies.
• Ability to work collaboratively as well as independently.
• Ability to multi-task and manage assignments from competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Review current processes and solutions and make recommendations for improvement.
• Work with stakeholders to help identify and understand business needs.
• Perform gap analysis to clearly define requirements to achieve business objectives.
• Document complete and accurate requirements.
• Facilitate meetings with clients, vendors, and peers.
• Maintain backlog of user stories and collaborate on sprint planning.

Skills

SQL

Agile

Business Analysis

Visio

Waterfall

Business Process Modeling

Requirements Gathering

User Acceptance Testing

Business requirements

SDLC

Systems Analysis

Data Analysis Skills

Tools

Azure DevOps

JIRA

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Job Description :

DXC Technology (NYSE : DXC) empowers global companies to operate their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT optimizing data architectures and ensuring security and scalability across public private and hybrid clouds. Many of the worlds largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deliver exceptional service across the Enterprise Technology Stack driving performance competitiveness and customer experience. Discover more about our commitment to excellence for customers and colleagues at .

At DXC we harness the power of technology to deliver essential IT services that help our clients modernize operations and drive innovation across their entire IT infrastructure. Our services span the Enterprise Technology Stack and include business process outsourcing insurance analytics and engineering applications security cloud IT outsourcing and modern workplace solutions.

Our DXC Insurance Services support clients in optimizing and transforming operations reducing costs and building agile channels for growth. Leveraging our people technology and best practices we improve and automate complex business processes across middle and back officeswhile enhancing customer experience transformation.

Insurance Software Business Analyst

As an Insurance Software Business Analyst you will be supporting Software Development for New Business and Underwriting within the Canadian Life Insurance industry. Working with a team you will be responsible for requirements participate in design and support testing activities for new features fixes integrations and technology solutions provided by third party vendors as well as internal development

Essential Job Functions :

Review current processes and solutions and make recommendations for improvement.

Work with stakeholders to help identify and understand business needs.

Perform gap analysis to clearly define requirements to achieve business objectives.

Document complete and accurate requirements as user stories with acceptance criteria or in requirements documents.

Facilitate meetings with clients vendors peers and partners to gather necessary information and present relevant findings.

Broker discussions to gain agreement on decisions and priority.

Maintain backlog of user stories and work with the team to sprint plan and break down into tasks.

Contribute to estimating activities for user stories and tasks.

Collaborate in solution design and test planning activities. Ensuring acceptance criteria are satisfied by establishing requirements traceability matrices.

Participate in defect management by liaising with Quality Assurance Analysts Business leads and Developers to communicate variances in expected results. Establish changes needed to design or acceptance criteria as a result.

Support production implementation and verification activities and provide post-production implementation support.

Mandatory Requirements :

Minimum of 5 -10 years experience in the Canadian Life Insurance industry focused within New Business and Underwriting performing Business Analysis activities for Software Development.

Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle for both Waterfall and Agile with Scrum methodologies.

Ability to work both collaboratively as well as independently.

Ability to multi-task and manage assignments from competing priorities with tight deadlines.

Ability to adapt to changes quickly.

Ability to communicate effectively both written and verbal with a broad range of audiences.

Experience with Azure DevOps and JIRA

Proficiency with usage of Microsoft products such as SharePoint Teams Excel and Word.

Preferred Qualifications (not mandatory)

Experience with Sapiens IllustrationPro ApplicationPro and UnderwritingPro.

Experience with Ingenium

Scrum Master certification

Work Environment :

This position is hybrid within Canada only.

Schedule is Monday through Friday 8 : 00am - 5 : 00pm Eastern Time

All applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring sponsorship now or in the future

DXC is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome the many dimensions of diversity. Accommodation of special needs for qualified candidates may be considered within the framework of the DXC Accommodation Policy.

In addition DXC Technology is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance in filling out the employment application or require a reasonable accommodation while seeking employment please e-mail AODA Canada Requests.

Note : This option is reserved for applicants needing a reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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Required Experience :

Key Skills

SQL,Agile,Business Analysis,Visio,Waterfall,Business Process Modeling,Requirements Gathering,User Acceptance Testing,Business requirements,SDLC,Systems Analysis,Data Analysis Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1