Business Analyst

Business Analyst with Insurance domain-(Any insurance vertical)
New York, NY (hybrid)
6+Month Contract

Overview: The Product Owner role is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, customers and/or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need. You will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help the business make good technology decisions. Proactive in utilizing new technologies to optimize business processes. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT understands of business requirements.

Strategy and Planning:

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes

Acquisition and Deployment:

• Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts
• Participate in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized
• Participate in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use

Operational Management:

• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
• Where applicable, help develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options, and communicate these back to the business stakeholders
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements– verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• May provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science or management information systems
• 5-8 years related work experience
• Experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products
• Working technical knowledge of 2 programming languages
• Practical knowledge in importing data for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs, and flow charts
• Experience in the operation and analysis of database hardware, software, and standards, as well as data retrieval methodologies and mainframe applications
• Practical knowledge of project management skills
• Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Good analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good listening and interpersonal skills
• Logical and efficient
• Keen attention to detail
• Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Self-motivated and directed
• Strong customer service orientation

Practices to Support Success

• Being Organized, Conscientious and Focused
• Becoming Self-Confident
• Setting Work Priorities
• Using Time and Resources Efficiently
• Delivering Consistently High-Quality Results
• Informing Peers and Bosses
• Managing Conflict
• Understanding and Relating to Customers
• Influencing Others
• Leveraging High Aspirations for Life-Long Skill Building and Personal Growth

Metasys Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran or disability status.