Life Insurance - IT Analyst III

Pekininsurance; Pekin (IL); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO + Holidays

Flexible/Hybrid schedule

Volunteer program

Job summary

Pekin Insurance is seeking a Life Insurance IT Analyst III to partner with Product Managers, Owners, and business units to translate requirements into user stories and testable outcomes for life insurance products and forms.

The role focuses on documenting customer journeys, prioritizing backlog with the business voice, and guiding developers with clear business context, while ensuring product quality and alignment with strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 5-8 years equivalent work experience.
• Typically requires 5-8 years of experience in the field or related roles.
• Experience in an Agile environment preferred.
• Life Insurance knowledge is highly preferred, especially life insurance forms and business processes.

Responsibilities

• Identify and capture business problems and non-functional requirements with Product Managers and business units.
• Translate customer journeys into user stories and actionable backlog items.
• Define and execute test cases and support planning and release activities.
• Act as the voice of the business to the technical product team and guide solution options.
• Educate engineers on product context to ensures quality and alignment with business strategy.
• Provide operational support such as check runs and other business/system tasks as needed.
• Lead stakeholders and influence decisions to minimize investment divergence from target architecture.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

User stories

Stakeholder communication

Data analysis

Agile experience

Technical writing

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or 5-8 years experience

Job description

Looking for more than just a job? You’ve found it.

At Pekin Insurance, you’re not a number—you’re part of something bigger. For over 100 years, we’ve built a community where people are valued, supported, and empowered to grow. Here, you’ll find a workplace where collaboration is real, ideas are welcome, and the work you do truly matters. We’re proud to help people through life’s toughest moments—and it’s our people who make that possible.

From day one, you’ll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work, take on meaningful challenges, and grow in ways that matter to you.

Position Overview

The Life Insurance IT Analyst III partners with Product Managers, Product Owners, business units, and technical teams to identify business problems and translate requirements into user stories, features, and testable outcomes. The role will document customer journeys and complex business process flows, with emphasis on Life insurance products and forms.

The Life Insurance IT Analyst III will act as the voice of the business, support backlog prioritization, provide developers with business context and clarify requirements, define and execute test cases, participate in planning and release activities, and help ensure product quality and alignment with business strategy. This role will also provide operational support as needed, including activities such as check runs and other business or system support functions.

Essential Job Functions

• Works with Product Managers, Product Owners, and business units to identify and capture business problems and non-functional requirements
• Understands the customer journey and translates into user stories
• Ability to absorb and apply complex business and technical information
• Identifies stakeholder beliefs to inform requirements prioritization and shares with Product Owner
• Ensures accurate translation of business requirements into functionality and features
• Guides team decision making and provides business partners with an accurate view of challenges to end-user buy-in under the guidance of Product Managers and Owners
• Aligns technology solutions with business strategies comprised of enterprise-wide or the most complex business processes
• Understands and applies information and data analysis requirements
• Define and supports execution of test cases
• Acts as the voice of the business to the technical product team
• Educates engineers on a product’s context and drives/ensures product quality and intended use
• Prototypes and co-designs for innovative solutions
• Identifies opportunities for business-led delivery
• Helps employees to make better use of technology and information when necessary
• Provides consultative support on business-led technology products and projects
• Guides solution options and Product Manager decision making to minimize the amount of product investment divergence from target architecture
• Advanced ITSM process creation, management, and improvement
• Advanced stakeholder communication and influence across business and technical teams
• Advanced business and process analysis, including identifying risks, dependencies, gaps, and solutions
• Participates in planning and release events as required
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree or in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other related fields or 5-8 years equivalent work experience.

• Typically requires 5-8 years of experience in the desired field or may have advanced level technical or business work experience

Preferred

• Experience in an Agile environment strongly preferred
• Life Insurance knowledge is highly preferred, especially life insurance forms and knowledge of business process flows.

Certifications & Licenses

• Certifications not required.
• FLMI, relevant life insurance industry certifications, or applicable IT/technical certifications are a plus.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

In-depth knowledge of:

• Requirements elicitation and analysis
• Business process mapping; user stories/features; test-case definition and execution
• Stakeholder communication/influence
• Technical/process writing; ability to absorb complex business and technical information.

In-depth skills in:

• Analytical and conceptual thinking
• Information gathering, planning, and organizing methods and principles
• The organization’s goals and objectives
• Planning, organizational, and time management

• Written and verbal communication including technical writing skills

In-depth ability to:

• Elicit requirements and performing testing

• Translate customer journeys into user stories

• Analyze data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools

• Influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions

• Conduct research on a wide range of computing issues as required

• Absorb and retain information quickly, specifically complex technical information

• Lead technical teams producing complex solutions

• Build controls and manage risk to foster a stable business production environment

• Apply original thinking to produce new ideas and innovate

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.

Pay Range

• $82,000.00 – $111,000.00 per year
  • This range is based on the expected level of experience and skills for this position. Final compensation will depend on individual

Benefits:

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Generous 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off (PTO) with Paid Holidays
• Flexible/Hybrid Work Schedule
• Paid Volunteer Program

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