Business Analyst

The ideal candidates should have:

Insurance domain knowledge, preferably with a strong understanding of the SME business

Location to work from nearshore (Spain, Italy) or offshore locations (India) but also open to On shore (France Germany)

Supports the Technical Product Owners in the management of the product backlog, including creation of user stories

Breaks down complex problems to smaller issues

Gives guidance and coordination to junior business analysts

Works continuously on internal business analysis process improvements

Participates in product strategy forming and solution design

Manages stakeholder expectations

Ensures that the right information is available to the development team in the right level of detail, at the right time, so they can build the right product and provides support throughout the whole software lifecycle.

Responsible for EPIC DoR

Defines software requirements through the continuous exploration of the business needs

Produces and refines requirements through an interactive process of planning, defining acceptance criteria, prioritizing, developing and reviewing the results.

Ensures that the features requested by the users align with the product’s business goals, especially as the business goals evolve and change over time.

Supporting implementation team(s) for different CTA projects

Acting as a mediator between Allianz Technology, Allianz RE and related Operational Entities

Ability to work in an agile environment

Experience in Banking, Finance or Insurance is a requirement

Good analytical capabilities

Experience using programming languages and database technologies is an advantage

Ability to manage customers in a dynamically changing environment

Understanding complex business scenarios using professional analytical skills

Academic Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Economics or related quantitative field

English language proficiency required

German language skills are a plus

Self-driven, autonomous, with ability to work closely with other business analysts, architects and development team to work towards quality product rollout

Experience dealing with complex systems: real time, operational, analytical (interacting with and specifications definition for these systems is included)

Demonstrated experience with software development life cycle methodologies, including agile

Worked in environments that demand fast paced effective delivery under tight timelines

Data access, data exploration, SQL, etc. for interacting with data

Working with APIs is a good plus – needed for interaction with data and systems

Confluence for documentation, specifications etc.

JIRA BDD template

From a technology perspective, familiarity with the following stack would be highly desirable:

Front End: Angular

Back End: Java

Database: MongoDB

Streaming Platform: Kafka