Join our growing Business Technology team as we empower the business to achieve our next chapter of global growth and scale with a digital workforce. Do you have experience defining requirements and user stories, decomposing a process into discrete parts? Are you passionate about data and process? Come join the Guidewire Business Technology team and enable the operations of our Enterprise Architecture Review Board. The Business Technology organization is responsible for all internal and external applications across Guidewire. Our Business Technology team is looking for an Associate Business Analyst who will enable the Enterprise Architecture Review Board operations. In that capacity you will support application and business teams in understanding architecture templates and standards, the review process, and in optimizing the same. You will support productive review board discussions, documenting findings and ensuring resolution where appropriate.

Dey Responsibilities

• Develops, writes, and reviews functional requirements with business partners, product owner and product manager
• Gains strong expertise in one product, function or process (e.g. Coupa, Concur, Oracle Procurement, Revenue, ServiceNow, Contract management, Lead, Opportunity)
• Utilizes functional expertise to identify areas of Opportunity such as processes to optimize and automate
• Leads feature assessment, requirements gathering, user story creation and acceptance criteria definition
• May develop business dashboards, processes use cases
• Supports system changes with configuration design and updates in dev, UAT and production environments
• Collaboratively plans feature/function/E2E testing across modules for a business process
• Coordinates, Contributes, and Leads UAT planning, test execution & defect/change tracking
• Performs manual testing supporting quality assurance and testing automation efforts
• Develops facilitation skills for meeting management, and requirements workshop planning and management
• Able to perform tasks and activities with limited oversight
• Utilizes research first approach to understand and develop a PoV on new concepts
• Takes an active interest in the jobs of the business users to better understand, interpret and document process changes
• On track to become a functional specialist in specified business area or on a specified application or tool
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Well versed with BizTech playbooks and follows outlined processes

Experience

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Management, or related fields
• 3+ years of hands-on development experience implementing BI/Analytics and data solutions
• 1+ years of hands-on experience in Tableau/ThoughtSpot, creating data model and visualization
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on data modeling experience using any relational database (SQL Server, Oracle)
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and communicate fluently with business users, technical staff and management
• Good organization and problem-solving skills
• Experience developing in an agile software development environment (Scrum)
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented and organized
• Willingness to learn and master unfamiliar technologies and/or concepts 
• Excellent verbal and written technical documentation skills

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.

Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 insurers, including the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

Guidewire Software Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

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