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 an IT Business Analyst with rich BA experience in implementation of strategic and complex projects for our L&H Solutions.

Your key responsibilities

• Closely collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers and Engineering team, serve as a liaison between the business and technology teams
• Solicit business and system requirements using walk-through of use case scenarios, business process, activity workflow and data flow where required
• 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
• Participate in the development and planning of the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, including test plans and scripts, and facilitate UAT execution phase and work with business lead and project coordinator to acquire UAT sign-off

About you

• A Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or an equivalent experience
• 7+ Years of business and system analysis experience in (Re)insurance industry. Experience in Life & Health (Re)insurance automated Underwriting is an advantage
• 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 the current state situation, 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
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to network in an interdisciplinary, multi-cultural environment and cross-functional teams
• Self-starter who is methodical and well-organized. Highly committed, upbeat, proficient and reliable
• Adaptable in multi-tasking and meeting deadlines in a delivery focused environment, flexible with working hours. Experience of leading multiple partners often with competing demands and deadlines
• Take ownership and drive topics forward. Team focus and orientation towards customers and results

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Swiss Re offers modern work models and attractive workplaces that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases.