Senior Business Systems Analyst in Edinburgh

Sapiens is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join the expanding UK team. This is an exciting new opportunity for somebody who enjoys travel as part of their role.

Location: Edinburgh based (or reasonable commutable distance)

We are not offering Visa or Relocation support and cannot progress with candidates on a Graduate Visa, as you could be joining a project of up to 3 years.

Working model: Hybrid (flexible)

Key Responsibilities …

• Participate fully and a play a key role in the delivery of software solutions to our clients.
• Responsible for documentation and production of Project deliverables.
• Ensure all Requirements, Design, Interface, and Output Deliverables are delivered on time.
• Act as a Consultant in requirement and design workshops internally and externally.
• Manage and Engage with Lead BA/Project Director/Delivery Manager on all project Deliverables, Actions, Assumptions, Risks, Issues, Decisions and Constraints.
• Support Product Owner (or act as Product Owner) especially in defining and refining the Backlog.
• Review and sign-off all assigned User Stories.
• Support Development throughout the build phase, including the technical design.
• Review the Test Scripts and support testing throughout test phase.
• Help define acceptance criteria and high-level estimates.
• Working to Sapiens processes & Sapiens best practices.
• Provide clients with functional analysis and design advice guidance and consultancy in Sapiens’s solution throughout the project.
• Manage and participate in Peer Review activities, interacting with other Business Analysts, to ensure quality and completeness of requirement and design work.
• Support the definition and ongoing management of User Stories.
• Support the Client through go live and assist to resolve issues and queries
• Support and mentor more junior members of the team

Skills and Experience required …

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• Extensive financial services (Life, Pensions, or banking/Investments) project experience
• Customer-facing experience (internal or external)
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Experience of supporting the design of end-to-end solutions
• Experience of implementing significant functional change
• Experienced in full project lifecycle having been involved in numerous system implementation or enhancement projects
• Willingness to travel to client sites. International travel may be required.
• Good understanding of SQL/relational databases

Desirable

• Experience of working in the early stages of a project, especially supporting pre-sales and scope definition activities.
• Systems Integration experience.
• Previous experience working with a policy administration system.

Qualifications ...

Ideal qualifications for this role are:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (International Institute of Business Analysis)
• CII
• ISEB/BCS/ACII / FPC / AFPC or equivalent

About Us …

Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) empowers the financial sector, with a focus on insurance, to transform and become digital, innovative, and agile. Backed by 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens offers a complete insurance platform, with pre-integrated, low-code solutions and a cloud-first approach that accelerates customers’ digital transformation. Serving more than 600 customers in 30 countries, Sapiens offers insurers across Property & Casualty, Workers’ Compensation and Life markets the most comprehensive set of solutions, from core to complementary, including Reinsurance, Financial & Compliance, Data & Analytics, Digital, and Decision Management. Sapiens’ team of more than 5,000 employees operates through our offices in North America, the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

Sapiens is an E-Verified & Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.