Technical - Senior Business Analyst

Northwestern Mutual Job Description Template

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Our Customer is an American financial services mutual organization based in Milwaukee. The financial security company provides consultation on wealth and asset income protection, education planning, retirement planning, investment advisory services, financial planning trust and private client services, estate planning and business planning. Its products include life insurance, permanent life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance; annuities; investments; and investment advisory products and services.

Our customer is looking for a Senior Business Analyst on a contract basis to help support their ongoing business needs. This role is hybrid local to Milwaukee. In office 3 days a week Monday - Wednesday.

Responsibilities:

• Dig deep into a specific business area and help define the details of how to drive business results through technology.
• Work on a cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, designers and subject matter experts in an agile methodology to deliver on outcomes. Provide deep expertise in at least one business area or domain with a broad understanding of business and domains surrounding the main focus. Articulate this knowledge as an authority at the department level. May be called on to provide insight at the enterprise level to provide detailed analysis.
• Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Independently assess and document current state across multiple processes, business areas and domains while consulting and mentoring other Business Analysts. Think strategically in understanding business drivers to define "target state" solutions.
• Gather Requirements: Lead requirement gathering for larger efforts and across multiple business domains or from other business analysts.
• Author User Stories and/or Features: Author user stories and/or features independently with medium to high complexity and sometimes across multiple teams. Act as an authority throughout the development process as required.
• Test Plan Reviews: Support solution delivery by coordinating and facilitating the business test planning and test execution by authoring, participating in, and ensuring business sign-off of testing processes for medium and large efforts.
• Leadership: Work independently and may coordinate work for others and/or provide mentorship.
• Project Management: Use advanced project management skills to lead, complete and advance work.

Must have skills: Agile-Scrum Methodology, Atlassian JIRA, Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), effective communication skills, Scrum Certification

Nice to have skills: Process Flow Documentation, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Technical Acumen, Technical Business Requirements, Pivot Tables, MS Office Suite, SQL

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree. 4-5 Years Prior Experience demonstrating business analysis. Knowledge and abilities to position themselves as the communications authority and go to resource for key information and decisions making.
• Domain expertise via previous internships or similar roles in the past. Certifications demonstrating proficiency in role specific competencies.
• Deep familiarity of agile & scrum development environments. Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

Skills

-Adobe Analytics

- Intermediate Atlassian JIRA

- Intermediate Business Analysis

- Intermediate Business Cases

- Basic Continuous Improvement (CI)

- Basic Gap Assessments

- Advanced Industry Benchmarking

- Intermediate Microsoft Power BI

- Intermediate Process Mapping

- Intermediate Product Demonstrations

- Intermediate Requirements Gathering

- Advanced Structured Query Language (SQL)

- Intermediate Storytelling

- Basic Test Planning

- Advanced User Research

- Intermediate Wireframing

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.