Business Analyst, Highland Capital Brokerage

Remote IT Opportunity in Insurance Industry

Business Analyst, Highland Capital Brokerage

Location(s): All Locations/Remote

Role Type: Full time

Salary: $65,000 - $75,000 per year + annual bonus

Actual compensation offered will be determined individually, based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, licensure, experience, and education.

Our competitive compensation is just one component of Osaic’s total compensation package. Additional benefits include health, vision, dental insurance, 401k, paid time away, volunteer days and much more. To view more details of what you can look forward to, visit our careers page: .

Summary:

We currently have an opening for a Business Analyst at Highland Capital Brokerage. This position may be a remote position or work in one of our many brick-and-mortar offices throughout the country as a part of a highly collaborative team to hire top-quality insurance wholesalers.

The Business Analyst role will lead an agile development team on providing a best-in-class digital experience for advisors. The role will be a key delivery point of contact and be involved in the strategic planning of the product and assist product management and customers make decisions about its direction. The role serves as a liaison between business stakeholders and the technical delivery team.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, high school diploma (or equivalent) in combination with significant practical experience will be considered in lieu of degree. Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent is required.

Responsibilities:

• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of user stories
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value
• Lead Scrum ceremonies
• Gather feature requests, develop and maintain well planned backlog and roadmap
• Act as the key liaison among product, technology, and operations partners to define product strategies and vision to bring them on the journey of building the product
• Provide vision and direction on priorities to the agile delivery team
• Play an active role in mitigating issues and blockers to meet release and sprint goals
• Prepare and participate in sprint planning, iteration execution, demos, testing, and retrospectives
• Lead the team to refine, prioritize, and manage the backlog to achieve the goals and vision
• Identify and estimate anticipated work efforts based on priority using program increment (PI) and sprint planning
• Define and resolve dependencies, issues, and risks along with identification of impacted areas through team collaboration

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience
• Experience working within an agile delivery team
• Ability to drive requirement definition and solution design
• Ability to identify technical impacts, recommend best practices, or alternatives

Preferred Requirements:

• Licenses or certifications

Osaic is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and we hire the most qualified candidates without regard for age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, language differences, nationality or national origin, family or marital status, physical, mental, and developmental abilities (or the perception of a disability), genetic information, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, skin color, social or economic class, education, work and behavioral styles, political affiliation, military service, caste, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Osaic.

Osaic does not consider applications from candidates who do not meet the minimum qualifications stated in the job posting.

Osaic only accepts candidates from contracted recruiting firms and only for searches approved prior to submissions. Fees will not be paid for unsolicited submissions.