Senior Business Consultant, FAST Technology

Talcott Financial Group* is an international life insurance group and the industry’s trusted partner for comprehensive risk solutions. Talcott creatively designs and expertly delivers responsive solutions that transfer risk and manage capital in a way that supports the strategic needs of insurers today and into the future.
Talcott Financial Group has a proven track record of well-executed transactions, and the enterprise benefits from its strong financial position with over $127 billion in assets under management, its investment-grade financial strength ratings, and its partnership with Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm.
Talcott Financial Group’s two core business platforms include: U.S. based Talcott Resolution and Bermuda and Cayman based Talcott Re.


The Senior Business Consultant is a senior-level individual contributor within the IT organization, operating as a strategic advisor to business leaders and a key partner to technology teams. This role requires deep understanding of the Annuities value chain, lifecycle and data, with the ability to analyze how annuity submissions, case setup, policy issuance, and post issue events flow across upstream intake systems, policy administration platforms, and downstream financial and reporting systems. This role is accountable for translating business strategy into technology-enabled solutions, driving alignment across stakeholders, and ensuring delivery of initiatives that generate measurable business value.
Working with a high degree of independence, the Senior Business Consultant leads complex, cross-functional efforts, influences decision-making at the leadership level, and ensures adherence to enterprise standards, governance, and risk management practices. This role may serve as a lead on large initiatives and provides guidance to less experienced team members.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Apply and champion Talcott’s FAST (Flexible Architecture, Scalable Technology) principles to ensure solutions are modular, scalable, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy.
• Lead policy admin system (FAST) configuration following Talcott’s design principles in alignment with enterprise technology strategy
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to promote reuse, standardization, and long-term sustainability of technology solutions.
• Ensure business requirements and solutions are designed with flexibility, scalability, and future-state adaptability in mind.
• Partner with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into technology-enabled solutions.
• Lead requirements gathering, business process analysis, and solution design, and testing for complex initiatives working closely with cross functional and the vendor teams.
• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure clarity, alignment, and successful delivery.
• Serve as a domain aligned Senior BA for Annuities New Business, with strong understanding of case lifecycle, data elements, and business rules.
• Perform data analysis to trace and validate annuity data across upstream, administration, and downstream systems, identifying root causes of issues and gaps.
• Partner with technology teams to review data mappings, transformations, and integration points to ensure end to end consistency.
• Translate business questions into data driven insights, connecting system behavior back to annuity processes and outcomes.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and efficiency improvements.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder meetings, and working sessions to drive consensus and decision-making.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, governance standards, and risk management practices.
• Support project delivery through all phases of the lifecycle, including planning, execution, testing, and implementation.
• Mentor and guide junior analysts and consultants, promoting best practices in business analysis and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor and measure outcomes of implemented solutions to ensure value realization.
• Can independently analyze complex annuity New Business scenarios spanning multiple systems and explain impacts clearly to business and technology stakeholders
• Brings clarity to ambiguous, data driven problems and drives alignment across vendors and internal teams.
• Thinks end to end, not system by system, while aligning with FAST principles

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field; and advanced degree is preferred
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in business consulting, business analysis, or a related IT function
• Minimum of 3 years of FAST experience in business analysis or configuration is required
• Experience working within FAST-al