Senior Technical Analyst - Wealth Management

Overview

Individual Markets Business Technology Services - at Guardian is seeking a Senior Technical Analyst - Wealth Management, who will be responsible for the implementation of Wealth Management Portfolio Initiatives within the Individual Markets organization.

This position will play a key role in delivering integrated solutions and services that meet business initiatives, product launches, process improvements, and strategic objectives, by translating business requirements into technical system requirements, along with managing root cause analysis and issue resolution.

You Will:

• You will work with business owners to analyze, define, and translate business requirements into technical specifications and user stories. Requirements could include but not limited to:
• Data Mapping
• Data configuration
• UI/Business configurations (Screen/Workflows)
• Product mapping/configurations
• Business & System rules
• You will create/maintain Master Technical requirement documentation.
• Provide in-depth and sophisticated analyses with interpretive thinking to define problems, develop innovative solutions and influence strategic functional decisions
• You will identify project tasks required to support a successful implementation, including performing impact analysis, verbally communicating complex issues, validating production readiness and communicating implementation statuses.
• You will partner with other Analysts & Product Owners to collaborate on team dependencies
• You may engage with various areas to resolve problems in production and non-production environments as they arise.
• You will provide leadership in technical problem solving by applying insight derived from a highly developed skill and knowledge base and coordinate impacts and dependencies across application teams.
• Participating and documenting design sessions to ensure business process requirements translate into technical requirements, including user stories, use cases, design specifications, business process, data flows and acceptance criteria when applicable
• You will identify project tasks required to support a successful implementation, including performing impact analysis, verbally communicating complex issues, validating production readiness and communicating implementation statuses.
• You will perform Unit testing as needed
• You will proactively identify opportunities for technology to improve business processes
• Coach/Mentor Software Engineer – System Analysts
• Assist with Product Owner responsibilities when needed

You Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent educational or professional experience and/or qualifications.
• In-depth Wealth Management business and/or technical knowledge
• 8+ years of Business Analyst or System Analysis experience in an agile environment.
• In-depth knowledge of software development lifecycles including Agile development and testing.
• Must be able to think strategically and evaluate short-, medium-, and long-term options
• Self-directed and proactive, able to think beyond the immediate challenge and anticipate using exceptional judgment and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrate strong methodical analytical skills considering different data points, patterns, trends, and/or themes to support system requirements and identify root cause and issue resolution
• Excellent written and verbal communications, organization, analytical, planning and leadership skills.
• Strong management, communication, technical and remote collaboration skills.
• Excellent team collaboration skills, to include experience in dealing with multiple projects impacting different processes within the Individual Markets ‘arena’, multi-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment.
• Ability to learn and maintain a comprehensive understanding of Guardian’s business and technology.
• Strong relationship building and maintaining skills. Fosters a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with clients (internal and external).
• Ability to travel up to 10%
• Working knowledge of Jira, Jira Align, MS project, MS Office Suite, and Visio

Location:

• Two Days a week at a Guardian office in Holmdel, NJ, Bethlehem, PA, Pittsfield, MA, or New York, NY.

Salary Range

$116,350.00 - $191,155.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may al