What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Systems Analyst position at Markel?
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As a Senior Business Systems Analyst for our Personal Lines Underwriting Platform, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and enhancing our applications within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. You will bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions, translating requirements gathered by business analysts into actionable technical specifications. This position requires close collaboration with product owners, engineers, and business analysts to deliver impactful solutions aligned with our organizational goals.
In this role, your expertise in API enablement, data mapping, SQL, and data transfer formats like XML and JSON will be essential for ensuring feature rich systems and seamless integrations. Your deep understanding of IT processes and tools will help drive risk mitigation, opportunity identification, and the delivery of high-value solutions.
Responsibilities
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20 countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better
We enjoy the everyday | We think further
What’s In It For You
In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
Caution: Employment scams
Markel Is Aware Of Employment-related Scams Where Scammers Will Impersonate Recruiters By Sending Fake Job Offers To Those Actively Seeking Employment In Order To Steal Personal Information. Frequently, The Scammer Will Reach Out To Individuals Who Have Posted Their Resume Online. These "job Offers" Include Convincing Offer Letters And Frequently Ask For Confidential Personal Information. Therefore, For Your Safety, Please Note That
Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Should you require any accommodation through the application process, please send an e-mail to the rarecruiting@markel.com.
No agencies please.
Join us and play your part in something special!
As a Senior Business Systems Analyst for our Personal Lines Underwriting Platform, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and enhancing our applications within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. You will bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions, translating requirements gathered by business analysts into actionable technical specifications. This position requires close collaboration with product owners, engineers, and business analysts to deliver impactful solutions aligned with our organizational goals.
In this role, your expertise in API enablement, data mapping, SQL, and data transfer formats like XML and JSON will be essential for ensuring feature rich systems and seamless integrations. Your deep understanding of IT processes and tools will help drive risk mitigation, opportunity identification, and the delivery of high-value solutions.
Responsibilities
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Analyze existing systems to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
- Create technical diagrams (sequence, context, etc.) based on business workflows and data flows using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Contribute to the design of new systems and features, ensuring alignment with business objectives and architectural principles.
- Make system configuration changes to support insurance product updates and enhancements.
- Assist with technical triage of application issues identified by end-users or system monitors.
- Assist in API contract definition.
- Assist with API partner onboarding, triage of issues, and support.
- Develop a strong understanding of data structures and relationships.
- Create data mapping specifications and technical user stories.
- Create and maintain comprehensive system documentation and technical training materials.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Occasionally required to work late evening and weekends as needed.
- Up to 10% travel as needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, other related field or equivalent work experience, including military experience
- Insurance certifications or affiliation with industry group a plus
- Guidewire Policy Center certification(s) a plus
- 5 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst or a similar role.
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies, practices, and processes.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
- Experience defining and interacting with APIs using tools like postman or openAPI.
- Experience writing SQL queries to extract and analyze data from relational databases.
- US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20 countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better
We enjoy the everyday | We think further
What’s In It For You
In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.
- We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.
- All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
- We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
- Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
Caution: Employment scams
Markel Is Aware Of Employment-related Scams Where Scammers Will Impersonate Recruiters By Sending Fake Job Offers To Those Actively Seeking Employment In Order To Steal Personal Information. Frequently, The Scammer Will Reach Out To Individuals Who Have Posted Their Resume Online. These "job Offers" Include Convincing Offer Letters And Frequently Ask For Confidential Personal Information. Therefore, For Your Safety, Please Note That
- All legitimate job postings with Markel will be posted on Markel Careers. No other URL should be trusted for job postings.
- All legitimate communications with Markel recruiters will come from Markel.com email addresses.
Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Should you require any accommodation through the application process, please send an e-mail to the rarecruiting@markel.com.
No agencies please.
