Senior IT System Analyst (hybrid)

Summary: This position is responsible for creating and maintaining quality system requirements. Translates business and system needs into solution requirements for designers, developers, and testers, using requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and management techniques.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Drives requirements analysis to ensure in-scope business needs and application and data changes are accurately identified and translated into requirements and the functional integrity of existing applications is maintained.
• Evaluates proposed system changes on moderately complex applications to determine effort, estimation activities, impact, and timeline within their area of responsibility.
• Considers system capacity, limitations, and operating time while completing assignments.
• Interprets requirements (written or oral) into technical program specifications for projects within their area of responsibility.
• Ensures defined solutions and proposed data changes are consistent with other planned changes.
• Measures and manages the quality of requirements and work products.
• Maintains the knowledge base on existing application functionality and data structures and relationships.
• Balances business need for changes with current system constraints.
• Partners with Business Lead and other stakeholders to properly align proposed solution with operational roadmap/strategy and ensure the functional and data integrity of applications and services.
• Delivers technology solutions to the business that increase business value and efficiency and reduce costs.
• Participates in analytical activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Generates moderately complex software requirements, document and manage them throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Has thorough system knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis including but not limited to program design, testing, debugging, documenting, configuring, installing, etc.
• Self-monitors assignments to report status to project teams and management.
• Interacts and communicates effectively with all business contacts.
• Use system and business knowledge to optimize delivery, triage issues/defects and quickly resolve issues.
• Drives quality improvements - measures, monitors and analyzes production quality trends.
• Ensures moderately complex system solutions provided meet business needs.

What You'll Bring To The Company:

• Associate's degree in information systems or related field, or equivalent education and experience preferred.
• Must have thorough knowledge of Guidewire application and at least one applications programming system and competent to work at a high technical level of all phases of applications systems analysis activities.
• Must possess very good problem solving, interpersonal and communications skills, and the self-motivation to improve skills and abilities as generally acquired through one year of experience.
• Should be willing to develop an understanding of the insurance business.

About Us:

Grange Insurance Company, with $3.1 billion in assets and more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is an insurance provider founded in 1935 and based in Columbus, Ohio. Through its network of independent agents, Grange offers auto, home and business insurance protection. Grange Insurance Company and its affiliates serve policyholders in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin- the 13-state Grange Enterprise holds an A.M. Best rating of "A" (Excellent).

Who We Are:

We are committed to an inclusive work environment where we welcome and value diversity and inclusion. We hire great talent from a wide variety of backgrounds, and our associates are our biggest strength. The diversity of our associates, their backgrounds, experiences, and individual differences are the foundation for our success. Our inclusive culture empowers all of us to "Be One Team", "Deliver Excellence", "Communicate Openly", "Do the Right Thing", and "Solve Creatively for Tomorrow". We have active Associate Resource Groups and a Diversity and Inclusion Team, that focuses on professional development, networking, business value and community outreach; all which encourage and facilitate an environment that fosters learning, innovation, and growth. Together we use our individual experiences to learn from one another and grow as professionals and as humans.

We welcome the unique contributions that you bring from education, opinions, culture, beliefs, race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, handicap, disability, sexual orientation, gender stereotyping, gender identity or expression, genetic information, ancestry, pregnancy, veteran status, and citizenship.

Grange Enterprise is proud to be part of the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion™, a national initiative of more than 1400 CEOs working for the advancement of diversity and inclusion within the workplace.