Manager, Platform Solution Development (Business Analysts)

Nextens; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Wellbeing program

Paid time off and leave

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions seeks a Manager, Platform Solution Development to lead business analysis and design capabilities for the shared insurance platform. You will recruit, develop, and manage a team of Business Analysts, while collaborating across product, technology, operations and support in Alpharetta, GA with three days in-office.

You will guide requirements practices, ensure quality, and drive platform modernization and operational enablement, delivering scalable, API-driven solutions

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, solution development, or product solution leadership.
• Strong understanding of requirements lifecycle, design, and traceability.
• Experience hiring, developing, coaching, and managing people (BA focus).
• MBA or management degree desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution lifecycle aligning customer needs with platform capabilities.
• Define strategy and roadmap priorities balancing business value and technical constraints.
• Drive decisions to support scalable, reusable, platform-aligned outcomes.
• Lead creation and management of requirements artifacts (user stories, flows, specs).
• Ensure documentation standards, traceability, and alignment between needs and delivery.
• Build and evolve the Business Analysis function with standards and coaching.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Influence

Conflict navigation

Coaching

Team development

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering or Business

Job description

Are you ready to lead business analysis and solution design capabilities that shape scalable enterprise platform solutions?

Do you excel at building high-performing teams, translating business needs into actionable solution designs, and driving alignment across business and technology stakeholders?

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within ourInsurancevertical, we provide customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics toassistthem in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Our insurance risk solutions help drive better data-driven decisions across the insurance policylifecycle allwhile reducing risk. You can learn more about LexisNexis Riskat the link below. https://risk.lexisnexis.com/insurance

About Our Team

The Platform Solution Development team supports the shared insurance platform by leading business analysis, solution design, requirements definition, and solution enablement across platform modernization and operational enablement initiatives. The team works across product, technology, operations, and support to translate business needs into scalable, high-quality solutions across existing monolithic platform infrastructure and modernized API-driven and batch-enabled capabilities.

Weoperatein a collaborative, cross-functional environment focused on clear ownership, consistentrequirementspractices, strong solution design standards, and continuous improvement. The team is dedicated to improving solution quality, delivery efficiency,requirementsreuse, reduced rework, and steady progress toward standardized, platform-aligned solution patterns.

About the Role

The Manager, Platform Solution Development leads the definition, delivery, and continuous improvement of business analysis and solution design capabilities across the shared insurance platform. This role is accountable for ensuring business needs are clearly translated into high-quality, scalable solutions that support platform modernization, operational enablement, accuracy, traceability, and continuity.

You will helpestablishPlatform Solution Development as a core organizational capability by driving consistentrequirementspractices, clear ownership of solution design, and effective collaboration across teams. This role includes responsibility for recruiting, developing, coaching, and managing the performance of a team of Business Analysts, while informally leading cross-functional contributors across product, technology, operations, and support.

This role is based in Alpharetta, GA, with an expectation of three days per week inoffice.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role requires a proven people leader who can build and develop high-performing Business Analyst teams, communicate with clarity and influence across business and technology stakeholders, and deliver scalable enterprise platform solutions through strong business process, solution design, API, integration, and modern platform architecture expertise.

• Builds trust, develops talent, provides meaningful feedback, creates accountability, and improves team capability, delivery quality, and effectiveness.
• Communicates clearly, actively listens, influences decisions, navigates conflict constructively, and creates alignment across technical and business audiences.

Enable AI-Powered Customer Solutions

• Translates platform capabilities into reusable services consumable by applications, partners, and AI agents.
• Balances innovation, security, governance, and customer value when enabling AI-driven experiences.
• Identifiesopportunities where AI can reduce customer implementation effort and accelerate adoption of platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end solution lifecycle by aligning customer needs, business priorities, and platform capabilities.
• Define strategy and roadmap priorities that balance business value, delivery efficiency, and technical constraints.
• Drive solution decisions that support scalable, reusable, platform-aligned outcomes.
• Lead the creation and management ofrequirementsartifacts, including user stories, process flows, and functional specifications.
• Ensure strong documentation standards,requirementstraceability, and alignment between business needs and technical delivery.
• Build and evolve the Business Analysis function by setting standards, coaching analysts, improving practices, and developing team capability.
• Hire, develop, coach, and manage Business Analysts with a focus on accountability, sustainable performance, and delivery quality.
• Communicate clearly, actively listen, build trust, and align cross-functional stakeholders across business, product, engineering, operations, and support.
• Translate complex business needs into actionable solution designs and explain technical concepts in ways that resonate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Use data, KPIs, and structured analysis to guide solution decisions,identifytrends and risks, and improve solution quality and delivery outcomes.
• Apply technical and platform understanding of APIs, data models, integration patterns, XML, JSON, workflow automation, low-code capabilities, and modern platform architectures.
• Work across monolithic and modernized technology environments to support platform modernization and operational enablement initiatives.
• Set clear expectations, create accountability, motivate teams, and drive delivery against defined goals and performance metrics.
• Navigate conflict constructively, influence decisions, and drive outcomes in complex cross-functional environments.
• Foster innovation and continuous improvement byidentifyinghigh-impact opportunities and improvingrequirementspractices, processes, and solution delivery approaches.
• Take ownership of personal growth by seeking feedback, learning from experience,leveragingnetworks, and aligning development plans with evolving business‑needs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, solution development, product solution leadership, ora relateddiscipline.
• Experience developing and executing complex requirements and solution designs across enterprise‑scale systems.
• Track recordof hiring, developing, coaching, and managing people, ideally including Business Analysts.
• Bachelor’s or Master’sdegree in a technical subject such as Computer Science or Engineering, or in a business discipline, preferred but notrequired.
• MBA or management degree desirable.
• Strong understanding of business analysis practices,requirementslifecycle management, solution design, documentation standards, and traceability.
• Experience onboarding products, services, and features onto enterprise platforms and translating business needs into scalable solution designs.
• Ability to use data, KPIs, and structured analysis to guide decisions,identifytrends and risks, and improve outcomes.
• Strong communication, active listening, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across business and technology audiences.
• Ability to navigate conflict constructively, build trust, create alignment, and drive outcomes in cross-functional environments.
• Demonstrated ability to set expectations, create accountability, motivate teams, anddeliver againstgoals and performance metrics.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, self-development, and buildingsustainablehigh‑performing teams.

Technical & Platform Acumen

• Understanding ofAPIs, integration patterns, data models, XML, JSON, workflow automation, low-code capabilities, and modern platform architectures.
• Experience working across monolithic and modernized technology environments.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise platforms, including support for agent‑driven workflows and AI‑assisted business processes.
• Understanding ofModel Context Protocol (MCP), tool‑based AI integrations, API‑driven service discovery, and secure platform enablement patterns.
• Knowledge of modern AI application architectures, including context management, retrieval patterns, orchestration frameworks, and governance considerations.

Working for you:

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi‑carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time‑off Programs
• Short‑and‑Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves,adoptionand surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each toparticipatein Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

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