Guidewire Business Analyst

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.

The Role:

We are expanding our Insurance Consulting team and looking for specialised Senior Business Analysts with Guidewire (Policy Center) experience. You will predominately work within a squad of cross functional consultants (for example, Digital Strategists, Digital Architects, Agile Coaches) and provide the industry and client business perspective on the challenge that we are solving for our client.

• Cognizant’s purpose is to engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life. In the context of consulting that means you will be:
• Helping a client find and create new value for their customers, their business and our society through technology
• Helping a client understand what a modern business means in their context and how to manage the transition to it
• Facilitating the future design, orchestrating how Cognizant and its partners deliver that outcome and helping the client get value from it

Typically, you will work on engagements that last between 8 weeks and 6 months where you will be analysing a business, its people, their customers to define and solve complex business problems by shaping a strategy, designing a digital solution or architecting the implementation. Sometimes you will work through all those stages in the transformation lifecycle.

In this Guidewire Business Analyst role you will be responsible for:

• Requirements Gathering through direct user interviews as well as formal and informal sessions.
• Analyzing System & Functional Specification.
• Facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements.
• Identify and translate business needs into clearly defined requirements for insurance policy administration projects.
• Develop requirements documentation inclusive of user stories/ use cases, process flows, data flows and report mock-ups.
• Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements gathering sessions, meetings, and presentations.
• Build strong relationships within the business units and support functions to understand the business needs.
• Work with project collaborators during project definition to help the team understand risks, dependencies, and opportunities; participate in requirements definition and review; lend domain expertise to projects.
• Ensure that proposed solutions are focused on improving efficiency and effectiveness of the business processes and are consistent across products where possible.

To apply for this Guidewire Business Analyst, your soft skills, expertise and experience should include:

• Experienced in functional specifications for Guidewire PolicyCenter and ClaimCenter
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to all audiences verbally and in writing.
• Experience working in P&C domain.
• Hands-on experience writing user stories is required., Writing requirements, conducting requirement workshops.
• Experienced with Agile SCRUM methodology and business analysis methodologies; solid understanding of business analysis documentation standards.
• Consistent record of creating clear, concise work that reflect a deep understanding of business needs and the out of the box software functionality.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience operating and working with business management, including negotiation and presentation skills.

Our Benefits:

Joining Cognizant will give you the opportunity to learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry, while having your finger on the pulse of emerging industry trends and working on the cutting edge of technology in your field of expertise.

We recognize that our people perform at their best when they feel valued as significant contributors and that is why at Cognizant, taking care of our employees is a priority:

• You can pursue innovative career tracks and opportunities here
• You can enhance your professional development through education and dedicated training
• We’ll give you the skills you need to keep pace with the changing workplace while our compensation, benefits and wellness packages help you stay healthy and plan for the future.

At Cognizant, we engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life because we're dedicated to making a lasting impact. Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.