Technology Analyst

Overview

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We offer competitive benefits and pay with the potential for an annual financial award based on both individual and enterprise performance. Our employees have an opportunity to participate in volunteer events within the community and engage in a learning culture. We offer programs to assist with tuition reimbursement, professional designations, employee development, wellness initiatives, and more!

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Office Location(s): Bloomington, IL-Corporate, Dunwoody, GA-Park Center, Richardson, TX-CityLine

Hybrid Work Arrangement: In this position, you should plan to spend time working in the office and remotely (with the ability for same day travel to and from your assigned office location) as part of a hybrid work arrangement. Work arrangements could change over time based on business need. Your manager will share additional information regarding your department’s approach and what it means for you.

• Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity*****
  
  

Responsibilities

As a member of the P&C Actuarial and Underwriting Modeling Department you will be challenged and empowered to grow professionally. We are dedicated to helping each of our associates develop to their full potential. As a small tech team operating in a business department, our ability to work with business partners and make fast decisions drives a quick pace and exciting work. We appreciate your interest in this role.

Day in the life of a Technology Analyst in PCM

As a Technology Analyst, you will play an integral role supporting the actuarial and underwriting departments by helping your product team build and support technical solutions to drive results for the enterprise. Through this role, your work is essential for helping design and develop applications to support the actuarial and modeling processes and to achieve the business objectives for our P&C products.

As a Technology Analyst you will:

• Gather, write, and validate business requirements in agile methodology
• Learn new skills and enhance existing business and technical skills
• Practice and support agile methodology and participate in agile team environment
• Support change adoption, communication, and documentation needs
• Build relationships and partner with others across multiple teams and departments to achieve department and enterprise goals
  
  

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides subject matter expertise from a business perspective about a product or service
• Acts as a liaison/coordinator between the business partner and other areas
• Participates in a variety of activities to implement solutions that meet State Farm's needs: gathering information, conducting research, analyzing business needs, and developing requirements
• Leads team agile ceremonies, grooms epics, features, and stories to maintain a healthy backlog, and works with product manager to set priorities for team
• Provides triage for service requests, alongside other Product Owners, aligned to PCM Technology units
  
  

Qualifications

Technical Knowledge & Experience desired:

• P&C product and/or data knowledge
• Ability to write business requirements/acceptance criteria
• AWS knowledge or experience, particulary SageMaker service
• Working knowledge and experience with Python
  
  

Additional Skills:

• Ability to perform research
• Drive pace with assigned projects
• Attention to detail
• Ability to problem solve
• Commitment to working in a team environment
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing timelines
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Independent thinking
• Technical aptitude
  
  

Competencies:

• Initiative
• Relationship Building
• Communication
• Technical Functional
• Business Acumen
• Decision Making and Judgement
• Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity*****