Senior Business Analyst – Life & Annuities (Cloud)

Sapiens; Rochelle Park (NJ); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapiens in Rochelle Park, NJ seeks a Senior Business Analyst to bridge IT and Life Insurance business units. You will capture requirements from clients, translate them into actionable designs, and support the long-term application lifecycle across Life Portfolio.

The role requires strong domain knowledge in Life and Annuities, excellent communication, and experience with cloud-native, SaaS-based solutions. You will collaborate with business users and technical teams to deliver sustainable

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in an individual contributor BA role; leadership experience preferred.
• 5+ years insurance industry experience in Life and Annuities (L&A) Insurance.
• Policy administration, Illustration, Underwriting knowledge and implementation experience in the insurance industry, specifically Life and Health solutions
• Requirement gathering and documentation experience
• Experience working with configurable enterprise systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent customer communication skills
• Experience working within a born-in-the-cloud environment, with familiarity in cloud-native platforms, SaaS-based Life and Annuity solutions, and modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) as applied to insurance product delivery, policy administration, and digital transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Assist in systems / technology requirement gathering sessions for systems integration, update, and configuration.
• Provide guidance and a support to the business analysis team while acting as a Subject Matter Expert, providing product expertise and leadership on the engagement.
• Analyze and define systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements to produce functional design specification documents.
• Develop and implement software/system scripts and integrate workarounds to provide fixes to defined technical issues.
• Analyze and review test plans, and perform testing of Sapiens software / technologies following development and configuration stages, validating test cases and ensuring full coverage of requirements.
• Facilitate and participate in team quality reviews of requirement artifacts to ensure requirements are complete, consistent, comprehensible, feasible, and conform to standards.
• Assist the various teams across the organization with problem resolution while prioritizing and gaining approval for defined requirements.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Regularly communicate and coordinate with all stakeholders while coordinating and scope changes and adjustments required.
• Provide guidance relative to underwriting (manual and underwriting) measures and processes, including evaluating risk against insurance product characteristics
• Analyze and perform initial configuration and set up of plans, rules and tables in a system support of product definition preferred Analyze implemented solutions to verify objectives are met.

Skills

Business Analysis

Insurance Industry

Requirements Gathering

Documentation

Cloud / SaaS

Job description

Sapiens in Rochelle Park, NJ seeks a Senior Business Analyst to bridge IT and Life Insurance business units. You will capture requirements from clients, translate them into actionable designs, and support the long-term application lifecycle across Life Portfolio.

The role requires strong domain knowledge in Life and Annuities, excellent communication, and experience with cloud-native, SaaS-based solutions. You will collaborate with business users and technical teams to deliver sustainable