At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead Guidewire PolicyCenter initiatives and collaborate with diverse teams in insurance tech.
- Company: Dynamic insurance company based in Markham, focused on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive hourly pay, temporary role, and exposure to impactful tech projects.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career growth in a collaborative environment.
- Why this job: Join a team driving cloud migration and enhancing insurance processes.
- Qualifications: 8+ years as a Business Systems Analyst with Guidewire experience.
The predicted salary is between 68 - 83 $ per hour.
Lead Guidewire PolicyCenter initiatives in a complex insurance environment. Gain exposure to cloud migration, integrations, stakeholders.
Job Description:
- Lead requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation for Guidewire PolicyCenter initiatives.
- Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, and walkthroughs with business and technology stakeholders.
- Translate business needs into clear user stories, business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, data mapping documents, and acceptance criteria/use cases.
- Support PolicyCenter enhancements, integrations, cloud migration readiness, remediation activities, and production support initiatives.
- Analyze current-state and future-state processes, identify gaps, assess impacts, and recommend practical solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Work closely with product owners, development teams, QA, architecture, and business SMEs to ensure requirements are understood and delivered as intended.
- Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, and release planning activities.
- Assist QA teams with test scenario review, test case validation, UAT coordination, defect triage, and business sign-off activities.
- Track risks, issues, dependencies, and requirement changes, ensuring timely escalation and clear communication with stakeholders.
- Prepare clear documentation, status updates, presentations, and leadership-ready summaries as required.
Qualifications:
- 8 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, with a focus on Guidewire-related work for at least 5 years.
- Hands-on experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter implementations, enhancements, integrations, or production support.
- Strong understanding of property and casualty insurance processes, including policy lifecycle, underwriting, rating, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and related downstream impacts.
- Experience creating business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process maps, data mapping documents, and traceability documentation.
- Strong experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, developers, QA, architects, vendors, and support teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting testing activities, UAT, defect management, and production validation.
- Guidewire certification in PolicyCenter or Insurance Suite Analyst preferred.
- Experience with Guidewire Cloud implementations, cloud migration readiness, archive/purging, or remediation initiatives preferred.
- Knowledge of integrations, APIs, data mapping, payment platforms, document generation, or downstream insurance systems preferred.
- Experience with rating, pricing, forms, underwriting rules, transactions, renewals, cancellations, or policy servicing preferred.
- Experience preparing executive-level updates, dashboards, delivery summaries, and governance documentation preferred.
The successful candidate will bring 8+ years of Business Systems Analyst experience, including at least 5 years working with Guidewire solutions and deep expertise in Guidewire PolicyCenter. They will possess strong knowledge of property and casualty insurance processes and have demonstrated success supporting implementations, enhancements, integrations, and production support initiatives. The ideal candidate will excel at gathering and translating complex business requirements into actionable deliverables, while effectively partnering with stakeholders across business, technology, QA, and architecture teams. They will be highly analytical, detail-oriented, and proactive in identifying risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement. Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with experience operating in Agile environments and contributing to testing, UAT, cloud readiness, and governance activities.
What's on Offer:
- Hourly compensation ranging from $68.00 to $83.00 CAD.
- Temporary position in a varied technology department within the insurance industry.
- Opportunity to work in Markham and contribute to impactful technology projects.
Senior Guidewire Business Analyst in Markham employer: Michael Page (Canada)
Rejoindre notre société privée d'envergure nationale, c'est intégrer un environnement dynamique où l'excellence et la collaboration sont au cœur de notre culture. Nous offrons des opportunités de croissance significatives, notamment la possibilité de devenir CFO en moins d'un an, ainsi qu'un salaire compétitif, des bonus attractifs et des avantages sociaux complets. Située au Canada, notre entreprise valorise le développement professionnel et favorise un cadre de travail inclusif et respectueux, propice à l'épanouissement de tous nos employés.
