Senior IT Business Analyst

About the role & the team

You will work in a global team supporting Life & Health (L&H) Solutions from Swiss Re. Our L&H Solutions' offering covers the insurance value chain, from underwriting to claims and data analytics. One of the L&H Solutions is Magnum which is an automated underwriting solution built by Swiss Re and helps 70+ insurers across the globe to automate the risk assessment in their Life and Health insurance transactions. Magnum is a market-leading software for automated underwriting worldwide, recognized by The Forrester Wave™ as a leader in Automated Life Insurance Underwriting Engines. Magnum is catering to a fast-growing base of installed clients with dedicated teams across the world, from the US to Europe and Asia. Our ambition is to best serve our clients and achieve sustainable growth of Magnum products.

To maintain cutting-edge propositions and develop the next wave of innovations we are seeking a Senior IT Business Analyst with solid BA experience in implementation of strategic and complex projects for our L&H Solutions.

Your key responsibilities

• Articulate and define requirements of business ideas and drive data gathering and evaluation, as well as developing specific artifacts to help bridge the gap between strategy and execution

• Closely collaborate with the Product Owners, Product Managers and Architects to ensure business concepts are translated into an effective solution design

• Actively and flexibly drive approved initiatives forward to MVP and full implementation

• Write clear and concise requirements and specification in the form of user story and acceptance criteria, ensuring that requirements are unambiguous, complete, consistent and verifiable

• Lead review sessions for completed business requirements with key business users to gain final business approval

• Verify that the solution meets the business, compliance and technical requirements

• People manager to mentor and develop talents

About you

• A Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or an equivalent experience

• Business and system analysis experience in (Re)insurance industry. Experience in Life & Health (Re)insurance automated Underwriting is an advantage

• Experience in leading and nurturing a team including line management responsibilities

• Experience in data modelling, data ingestion/ETL solutions and data & system integration via data exchanges and APIs is a plus. Understanding of JSON, XML and Postman nice to have

• Demonstrated ability to discover and describe current state, understand strategic business goals, design and articulate future state, perform gap analysis and make recommendations to business leadership that meet goals and requirements

• Experience in documenting user stories, process flows and data flows

• Experience in Agile development, ideally with cloud/SaaS technologies

We are looking forward to your application

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between EUR  3 100 and EUR 5 100 per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,

• the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialization, skills and experience.

In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for additional rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based bonus.