Senior Business Analyst Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our team. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play a critical role in helping our clients find and create new value for their customers, business, and society through technology.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business analysis with experience in the Insurance Domain (P&C) and IT. You will be responsible for investigating and analyzing business value drivers, customer needs, and current technology and operational capabilities of the business.
You will work closely with cross-functional consultants, including Digital Strategists, Digital Architects, and Agile Coaches, to provide industry and client business perspective on challenges that we are solving for our clients.
This is a unique opportunity to work on engagements that last between 8 weeks and months, analyzing a business, its people, and their customers to define and solve complex business problems.
The successful candidate will have excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate with business users to assess complexity and elicit effort estimation.
Mandatory Skills
* Business Analysis skills with experience in Insurance Domain (P&C) + IT background
* Ability to gather, analyze, and document business and system requirements
* Experience in creating requirements artifacts like BRD, FSD, use cases, and user stories
* Extensive experience in Agile and Waterfall
* Knowledge of project effort estimation based on requirements
* Ability to collaborate with business users to assess complexity and elicit effort estimation
* Demonstrated Business Analysis skills - working on projects in Insurance domain
* Design thinking and ability to work in fast-paced and ambiguous situations
* Strong Communication & Presentation Skills with a flair for writing documents & ability to present to various audiences
* Insurance domain knowledge
Roles and Responsibilities
* Participating and facilitating workshops to understand client problems and define scope
* Investigating and analyzing business value drivers, customer needs, and current technology and operational capabilities of the business
* Designing and managing the requirements gathering lifecycle (including elicitation, documentation, and management of approval)
* Guiding the translation of requirements into solution designs, collaborating extensively with the digital squad (strategists, designers, and digital architects)
* Helping to prioritize work for a project squad (fully Cognizant or a mix of Cognizant and client) to optimize the value to the client from their investment
* Communicating with key client stakeholders and Cognizant leaders with strong written and oral skills focusing on scope, requirements, actions, and follow-up activities
* Producing succinct presentation documents, insightful process maps, or high-quality user stories
Qualifications and Certifications (Optional)
* Master's in Business Administration or equivalent
* Preferable tertiary qualification in IT and insurance
* Insurance industry certification will be an added advantage