Senior System Analyst

Summary

As Senior System Analyst, you are involved in eliciting requirements for product development and designing solutions that enhance and expand our products, in line with customer, market and business needs. You will provide support to FINEOS teams on all product related matters, producing high quality, on-budget, fit for purpose FINEOS solution designs. This role requires that you work with a commercial and customer focus, and continually improve product and market knowledge to enable us to meet customer and market requirements.

Responsibilities

• Understand and analyze customer and market requirements and business value, challenging and questioning features and identifying matches to existing FINEOS core product functionality or product gaps.
• Engage early with our business sponsors to understand the business value for product enhancements, contributing to the understanding and definition of high-level requirements through research, analysis, spikes or exploration activities.
• Produce high quality artefacts for proposed solutions to meet customer and market requirements, including screen mock-ups, scenarios, use cases, user stories, etc. with associated estimates for delivery of work.
• Work in a scrum team (with Product Owner, Lead Engineers, Software Engineers and Software Testers), in Agile (SAFe) manner, to provide software design capability required to deliver high quality, on-budget, fit for purpose solution designs which meet customer and market business needs.
• Work with your Scrum team to identify technical requirements as the basis for construction, including data modelling, functional changes and underlying updates to FINEOS product.
• Ensure that business, market and architectural needs are understood by your team and that the team can deliver business value and meet its delivery goals.

Support FINEOS teams in a Subject Matter Expert (SME) capacity on issues that require FINEOS Product suite expertise.

Education and/or Experience     

• Minimum 6 years of experience in the software industry, with at least 4 years of experience in an Analysis and\or client facing role.
• The ability to translate complex business requirements to deliverable solutions that meet customer and market business needs is critical to this role. Experience with both green field projects and enhancing existing solution designs.
• Experience in modelling complex data in a structured and flexible manner using OO Analysis and Design (OOAD) & notation (UML).
• Experience in Requirements management from upfront Requirements gathering and facilitation, to clarification and traceability of requirements.
• Degree in a business or IT related discipline is desirable.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills with ability to drive solutions and influence decision making.
• The ability to manage risks and issues is critical to this role.
• Scope Management is critical to this role.
• Knowledge & understanding of the financial services industry a distinct advantage.
• Knowledge and understanding of agile development methodologies an advantage.
• Financial services experience or qualification is desirable.

Technical Skills

• Data modelling, prototyping and process tracking tools, e.g. Visual Paradigm, Balsamiq, MS Visio, Jira, etc.
• Experience in software development or software testing will be an advantage (preferably in web applications and Java).
• Knowledge of SQL and experience of database platforms such as SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, etc. an advantage.
• Knowledge and experience of Cloud computing, AWS, will be a plus.
• Degree in an IT related discipline is desirable.

Language Skills

• Ability to speak the English language proficiently, both verbally and in writing.

Our Offer

• Employment type: Permanent Contract
• Work from home with opportunity for occasional days in the office defined by your team charter
• Tax-deductible cost due to creative work (PKUP)
• Business laptop and home office setup allowance
• Possibility to arrange for your start of working day in accordance with team work schedule
• Work in multinational environment, with great team of professionals on building FINEOS software platform for life, accident and health insurance
• Support in building professional skills through internal and external training
• Convenient office location, close to almost everywhere in TriCity - Gdansk Wrzeszcz, Garnizon
• Opportunities to travel and work in other locations.
• Benefits (private healthcare, English lessons, lunch card among others)

FINEOS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FINEOS does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.