At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Our Business

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2023 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2023.

Working at Selective

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely - we employ uniqueness. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs. Employees receive comprehensive total rewards packages - including competitive compensation and performance awards, health benefits, and retirement savings - and professional development opportunities and flexible schedules to support their health, wealth, and well-being. Join our team and help make a difference.

Overview:

Selective Insurance has an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Business Analyst to join our IT organization. As a member of a scrum team, you will be responsible for breaking features into stories after the Product Owners have broken the Epics down into features that technology teams can execute on.This role will work on large and/or complex epics. This role will also work closely with business stakeholders on change management and product adoption plans, as well as assisting with testing.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners to schedule and facilitate business requirements gathering sessions with business groups on large, complex and/or strategic epics - conducting stakeholder interviews, requirements workshops, backlog refinement sessions, etc., in order to document requirements, validate existing requirements and create new user stories. This also includes statutory requirements.
• Identifying and build relationships with all necessary stakeholders for various projects. This may include Product Owners, Product Managers, IT team, etc.
• Support developers and testers through the prioritization of user stories. Mentors more junior business analysts and associate business analysts.
• Document and manage requirements documentation (Features, User Stories, Business Requirements Document, Use Case Document), for different types of work (initiatives, enhancements, regulatory, support, break-fix, etc.) ensuring quality and completeness of all deliverables and obtaining necessary signoffs
• Document system changes and conduct training on system changes.
• Initiate peer review discussions and incorporate feedback into requirement documents.
• Tracks tasks and accurately provides time estimates for tasks and requirement estimations. Participate in all AGILE ceremonies and activities, while also contributing to demos.
• Conduct requirements walkthrough with development and testing teams. Ensure clarification and understanding on all requirements and obtain sign-off.
• Review coverage of test conditions and prioritize test scenarios for QA team.
• Act as mentor to Associate Business Analysts and more junior Business Analysts to ensure their understanding of processes, procedures, development, etc. Ability to work and influence successfully within a matrix environment and build effective partnerships with all levels of the team members. Demonstrate strong functional familiarity knowledge of Insurance Solutions to marry technical architecture to business system requirement and ability to drive UAT.

Qualifications:

• College degree in related field or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of experience in a business analysis role, and/or

  3+ years insurance line of business, systems analysis, agile team, or other IT expertise, along with 2 years of business analysis

• Experience in an Agile environment and knowledge of Agile methodology & frameworks

• PEGA domain knowledge is preferred

Salary range: $80,000 - $132,100. The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

Selective maintains a drug-free workplace.

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