Software Product Analyst (Hybrid Work Model)

At Sentry, we’re more than just insurance—and we can offer you more than just a job. We want you to enjoy a career with us, where you’re in the driver’s seat of your career path with access to resources to help you succeed personally and professionally.

What You’ll Receive

You want a positive work/life balance. Our hybrid work model allows you to enjoy the benefits of working from home on Monday and Friday, but also provides the opportunity for team building and collaboration when working in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. To help you work effectively and comfortably in both locations, we provide you with equipment to work at home and in the office.

You can enjoy a complete benefits package, including generous paid time off, 8% 401(k) match, matching charitable gift program, bonus plan based on company performance, meal stipends, associate discounts, and volunteer time off.

About Sentry

Our background: We’re one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance groups in the nation. More than 4,000 strong, our associates bring together diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets to make Sentry who we are. We’re No. 658 on the Fortune 1000 list and named one of America’s Best Midsize Employers by Forbes. We’re in the business of helping others, and that includes the communities where we live and work. Our annual United Way campaign has raised more than $1 million for the past seven years.  

Our Stevens Point campus offers a full-service fitness center, swimming pool, basketball and racquetball courts, auto center, credit union, on-site Aspirus clinic, restaurants, boutique hotel, and the award-winning SentryWorld golf course.

As the Software Product Analyst, you will be a team member of an agile software development team in the billing and downstream systems group of Sentry's Commercial Lines IT department. This team is responsible for calculating loss sensitive billing on recoverable deductible policies, retrospective premium, auto vehicle reporting, and dividends.

What You’ll Do

You’re a valuable contributor. As an associate at Sentry, we believe in your skills and knowledge. Your input and participation matters. You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Innovate: Through our scaled agile development process, you’ll have dedicated time to apply your creativity and innovation to drive new solutions.

• Learn: Sentry provides several resources for furthering your career and continuing your personal development, including Sentry University, LinkedIn Learning, and developer-led educational sessions and communities.

• Grow:  Sentry provides many opportunities to grow in your career. Through meaningful, ongoing conversations around growth and development, we encourage all associates to take ownership in their career path.

• Contribute: Our Software Product Analysts at Sentry are essential to our success of continuing to be innovative and competitive.  As an Analyst you’ll:

  • Have desire to gain skills and knowledge to improve work performance.

  • Participate in discussions and interact with business users and customers to fully understand their business processes and work environment.  Observe how they use software systems to do their job, and brainstorm ways to help them be more efficient and effective.

  • Learn to write crisp, concise requirements and user scenarios that clearly capture what the users want and help engineering bring them to life in software.

  • Learn to verbally communicate ideas clearly, and effectively to the team and business partners.

  • Learn to create comprehensive test cases to validate new system features.  Work closely with engineering to ensure the system works and performs as intended.  Work to anticipate users’ actions to find hidden system defects.

  • Gain a full understanding of how we develop software and provide ideas and perspective on how we could do it better.  Develop a basic technical understanding.  Be able to explain the technical building blocks and how information flows within our systems to users of the applications.​

• What it Takes:

  • Associates degree in Business Analysis or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

  • Bachelors degree in Business Analysis or a related discipline is preferred.

  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

If you have experience or knowledge in the skills listed above, we want y