As a Guidewire PolicyCenter Senior Business Analyst you will make an impact by leading the analysis and documentation of business requirements for insurance solutions using Guidewire applications. You will be a valued member of the diverse team and work cross-functionally with other partners and teams. **In this role, you will** + Lead Requirements Effort: Define, estimate, and manage timelines and efforts for handling requirements. + Collaborative Scope: Direct requirement sessions with multiple partners, including multi-functional teams, vendors, and remote members. + Structured Elicitation: Apply a variety of techniques to elicit, analyze, document, and lead business requirements, ensuring partner engagement and detailed understanding. + Documentation Excellence: Produce and maintain key Business Analyst (BA) artifacts, document high-level and detailed processes, and business use cases within scheduled timelines. + Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate closely with Business and Technology teams to analyze and resolve optimal solution options. + Quality Assurance: Understand and chip in to test strategies, including documentation of test cases and handling defects. + Expertise in Delivery: Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of business analysis and project delivery practices throughout the project lifecycle. + Impact Analysis: Evaluate how changes affect customers, partners, and technology interactions, ensuring alignment with business outcomes. + Risk Management: Proactively handle risks related to requirements, keeping key partners advised of potential impacts and solutions. + Leadership and Communication: Offer guidance and leadership, clearly communicating significant project updates to partners and driving strategic discussions. + Mentorship Role: Enhance team capabilities by mentoring junior peers, sharing insights and standard methodologies in business analysis. **What you’ll need to succeed (required skills)** + 10+ years of proven ability working in a Business Analyst role. + 5+ years of experience in General Insurance business (Home and Auto). + 5+ years of demonstrated ability on the Guidewire platform (PolicyCenter and BillingCenter). + Experience in enterprise Agile methodology, Ability to work in a fast-paced and demanding environment and Strong facilitation & elicitation skills. + Proven skills in Process Maps, Business Use Cases, Jira and Confluence experience. + Required experience in Usage-based Insurance. At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you only meet the required skills listed. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you'd be beneficial to this role. Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future. **Working arrangements** We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client OR Cognizant office in Toronto. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations. **At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways. We encourage you to apply if you have most of the skills above and feel like you are strongly suited for this role. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you’d be beneficial to this role.** Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.