Our Story
Unum Technology Centre in Carlow serves as a strategic software development and IT services centre supporting Unum, a leading provider of income protection in the US. Our team of IT professionals build solutions and critical business applications to digitally transform the way we do business.

Job Profile Summary

Sr. Business System Analysts are responsible for ensuring the delivery of the defining the business objectives into technical requirements within the agile team. They participate in the advancement of Data solutions across a business portfolio by working closely with Business Units, Product Owners, Developers and Architects.

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, and task/process/workflow analysis selecting the appropriate means of representing the requirement and ensuring traceability back to source (tools such as blueworks, Lucid Chart for process mapping, excel).

• Collaborates with the Business Architect, Product Owner, agile team and relevant subject matter experts to define concise and effective user stories from the capabilities roadmap also detailing precise and accurate acceptance criteria. This includes functional and non-functional requirements

• Collaborates with the Product Owner on prioritization and grooming of the capability backlog. Ensure that key information needed to support PO prioritization is current, accurate and available in a usable format to drive high quality decisions.

• Ensure product backlog quality of work item descriptions are concise and effective represent user needs, with any sufficiently detailed, precise acceptance criteria to support testing and acceptance of the work. Ensure that key data points on the work items are in place to provide expected transparency.

• Ensure that product backlog work items e.g. user stories are meeting the definition of ready in line with enterprise targets on backlog readiness, often called planning horizons or planning intake funnel

• Conduct data profiling and analysis to evaluate data sources to determine the best source for business information.

• Familiarity to source to target data mapping specifications

• May serve in a Scrum Master role for an agile team

• Thinks with the mind of the end customer at all times, ensuring solutions seek to improve the customer experience .

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, relevant professional qualification or acceptable industry experience.

• 6+ years successful experience in defining and delivering valuable solutions to our customers

• Experience in Fintech, Insurance industry and Cloud technologies would be an advantage

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Comfortable leading groups of people in discussions

• Able to deal with significant ambiguity and translate into more tangible outcomes

• Possess SQL skills and data analysis skills

• Proficient in developing data mapping specifications, including identification of data rules, defining transformation rules, etc.

• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies

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What We Offer
Our size and successful history in Carlow means we can offer you exceptional development and progression, supported by continual learning programs, IT Certifications & third level tuition reimbursement. We offer work-life-balance with flexible working arrangements (including hybrid) and initiatives in support of your well-being. Our attractive range of benefits and reward initiatives includes competitive compensation, 25 days annual leave, paid health insurance, pension scheme, annual performance-based bonus, paid maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, reward programs, and an opportunity to engage with charity and community activities.

Company:

Unum