Senior Business Analyst

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Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

This is a Hybrid position where you will need to be in the office a minimum of 10 days per month. These offices are located in Madison, WI and Boston, MA.

Primary Accountabilities

• You will participate with the business in the creation/completion of project charters for automation projects.
• We determine how to capture and document requirements based on the development methodology used for the business system.
• We develop the our requirements by translating the needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces into a format understandable to both clients and technologists.
• You will develop requirements for solution and solution component design.
• We obtain requirements that result from architectural/design decisions.
• We define quality attributes, constraints and other non-functional requirements.
• We evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• You will analyze requirements to determine whether they satisfy the objectives of higher level requirements.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

• We need demonstrated experience providing customer-focused solutions or support
• We need demonstrated experience defining technical SDLC requirements for moderately complex IT projects using a variety of graphical and textual techniques.
• Demonstrated experience consulting on the development of test strategies and plans for medium to large IT projects.
• Demonstrated experience using multiple facilitation techniques and other methods to elicit and document requirements and resolve conflicts among project partners.
• Demonstrated experience with multiple modeling techniques/tools used to convey and gain agreement regarding requirements.
• Experience with system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies. (e.g. Waterfall, Iterative, Agile).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of system architecture and system engineering processes.
• Experience with infrastructure technologies, operating systems, and the interconnectivity between infrastructure platforms and software tools.
• Solid knowledge of general business operations and strategies.

Licenses:

• Not Applicable.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 5%.

Physical Requirements

• Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Working Conditions

• Not Applicable.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above. Skills can be used in many different ways, and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.