Senior Business Analyst

Sapiens•,

About The Position

The Senior Business Analyst provides an IT interface to the Life Business, building sustainable and consistent business requirements for long-term application lifecycle management across the Life Portfolio. The analyst works closely with business units and technical development teams on projects, engages in client discussions, and captures requirements through interaction with client business users. The role supports systems integration, updates, and configuration; analyzes business and systems needs; and produces functional design specifications. Acting as a subject matter expert, the analyst provides product expertise and guidance to the business analysis team and other stakeholders. The position also supports requirements management, testing, configuration, quality reviews, and problem resolution throughout the project lifecycle, with a focus on Life and Annuity insurance solutions and cloud-based delivery.

Requirements

At least 5 years in an individual-contributor Business Analysis role.
At least 5 years of Life and Annuities insurance industry experience; this background is required and includes products such as Whole Life, Term, Disability Income, and Universal Life.
Knowledge and implementation experience in policy administration, illustration, and underwriting within the insurance industry, specifically Life and Health solutions.
Experience gathering and documenting requirements.
Experience working with configurable enterprise systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent customer communication skills.
Experience working in a born-in-the-cloud environment, with familiarity in cloud-native platforms, SaaS-based Life and Annuity solutions, and modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, as applied to insurance product delivery, policy administration, and digital transformation initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading engagements; priority is given to candidates who have led engagements.
Experience analyzing and performing initial configuration and setup of plans, rules, and tables in a system to support product definition.

Responsibilities

Assist with systems and technology requirement-gathering sessions for systems integration, updates, and configuration.
Provide guidance and support to the business analysis team as a subject matter expert, offering product expertise and engagement leadership.
Analyze and define systems scope and objectives based on user needs, applicable business systems, and industry requirements, and produce functional design specification documents.
Develop and implement software or system scripts and integrate workarounds to address defined technical issues.
Analyze and review test plans, perform testing of Sapiens software and technologies following development and configuration, validate test cases, and ensure full requirements coverage.
Facilitate and participate in team quality reviews of requirements artifacts to ensure they are complete, consistent, comprehensible, feasible, and compliant with standards.
Assist teams across the organization with problem resolution while prioritizing requirements and obtaining approval for them.
Manage and track requirements throughout the project lifecycle, enforcing and redefining them as necessary.
Communicate and coordinate regularly with stakeholders, including coordination of required scope changes and adjustments.
Provide guidance on underwriting measures and processes, including evaluating risk against insurance product characteristics.
Analyze and perform initial configuration and setup of plans, rules, and tables in a system to support product definition.
Analyze implemented solutions to verify that objectives are met.